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Barry Habib: A Guide to Mortgage Markets and a Producer of Broadway Shows |
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
 Barry with his wife Toni.
Barry is the youngest of five children of an immigrant family from Ortakoy, İstanbul. When the family decided to move away in 1958, like any immigrant who desired to come to the U.S., they thought that money lay scattered on the streets and all they had to do was just bend down and picked it up. |
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A Long Journey from Edirne to the U.S.: The Mitrani Family Adventure |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
 Norman Belmonte is front of the picture of Edirne Synagogue which his parents got married in 1913.
After 1492 many exiles from Spain came to Edirne (Adrianople), a town in Turkey located in eastern Thrace near the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian frontier, followed by refugees from Portugal, and Italy as well.
These new immigrants, who had different customs from the Romaniots, established their own congregations (kahal, pl. kehalim) according to their place of origin. In 1656 there were 15 different kehalim, most of them named after locations in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. |
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Monday, 05 October 2009 |
 Randall C. Belinfante
By Randall C. Belinfante*
The exodus of the Jews from Spain began not in 1492, as many believe, but in 1391, when serious anti-Jewish riots broke out in Toledo and Seville. In striving to convert the entire nation to the Catholic Christian faith, the Spanish leaders forced thousands of Jews to convert. Many others fled the country. Those that had converted came to be known as New Christians or Marranos (meaning “pig”). It was this group that was to become a target of the Inquisition, an organization charged with ensuring adherence to orthodox practice among Catholics but which also set about preventing people from backsliding into their “heathen” faiths.
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 |
Bridgeport, CT - “A blessing in disguise,” is the best phrase to describe Hakki Akbulak’s business adventures in the U.S. Akbulak, a Turkish born businessman, left Turkey when he was 17 to attend a college in Germany, become a CPA, then started to work for KMPG, a global network of professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services.
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