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Category Archives: Yitzchak Kerem
Professor Yitzhak Kerem Denied Entrance To Only Orthodox Shul In Central Berlin
Yitzhak Kerem emails: On Friday April 5, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. I was denied entrance to the only Orthodox synagogue in central Berlin called Adass Yisroel (TUCHOLSKYSTRASS 40, BERLIN MITTE 10117, TEL: 49 30 28 13 135 fax: 49 30 … Continue reading
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Baby Kidnapping In Israel
Yitzhak Kerem emails: Baby kidnapping at Hadasa Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem in 1964! Boy and girl twins born were born on 29 November 1964 to mother Rachel Nosrat Saadian and her husband Shmuel. Babies born healthy, fed, clothed, and … Continue reading
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Tagged childless couples, ein karem, hadasa, isfahan iran, israel yitzhak, political party members
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Holocaust Claims Conference
Background Professor Yitzchak Kerem emails: Noah Flug briefed Knesset Committee for survivors this week. He noted as “punishment” for Russian employee corruption (went on for 16 years with oversight and possible collaboration from Sol Kagan, Edgar Bronfman, Israel Singer, Julius … Continue reading
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Tagged art property, edgar bronfman, israel office, israel singer, shroeder, unnecessary documentation
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The Holocaust Claims Conference
Professor Yitzhak Kerem emails: If you are still interested in publishing about the rampant cancer in the Jewish leadership of the world you can post my following reaction to Mariln Henry and the Cliams Conferene to whitewash the annual stealing … Continue reading
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Tagged holocaust survivors, jerusalem post, jewish leadership, jewish newspapers, marilyn henry, ny jews
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AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem On Pico-Robertson, The Armenian Genocide
Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading
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AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem Interview Part II
Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading
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Tagged active world, area specialists, encyclopedia judaica, gaon, jewish communities, loan fund, march of the living, sephardic world
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American Jewish University Professor Yitzchak Kerem Says The Sephardim Were Discriminated Against With Holocaust Reparations
Part Two I met Dr. Yitzchak Kerem at LimmudLA a few weeks ago. "Yitzchak Kerem is an historian on Sephardic Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been the editor of Sefarad, the Sephardic newsletter, since 1991. He … Continue reading
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Tagged american jewish, diaspora jewry, eastern european jews, ecumenical patriarch of constantinople, encyclopedia of the holocaust, former soviet bloc, hebrew university of jerusalem, holocaust reparations, hovel, jewish university, Sephardim
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