Linda Jiménez
Women in Medieval Hebrew Literature, with Rachel Peled
11 Sivan 5780 (02/06/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many Hebrew poems do scholars think might have been written by women in Iberia in the Middle Ages?
Rachel Peled was born in Israel and has lived … Leer más
How Jews in Cuba are Coping: An Update, with Linda Hirsch
19 Iyyar 5780 (12/05/2020) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Through which country do many Cuban Jews have to go now if they want to make aliyah to Israel?
Linda Hirsch is a photographer and … Leer más
A Story for Mother’s Day, by Bessie Hallowitz
12 Iyyar 5780 (05/05/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Many countries celebrate Mother’s Day in May, so this week we decided to read you a Mother’s Day story. But first a little history.
Many people think that Mother’s Day … Leer más
Antithesis: The Zionist Rapper
5 Iyyar 5780 (28/04/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the name of the award-winning Jewish-themed radio program that Samuel Green created when he was at Cambridge University?
This week is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, … Leer más
A Tribute to Solly Levy
28 Nisan 5780 (21/04/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Solly Levy has left us, after suffering from a long illness. Solly was a teacher, writer, actor, singer and one of the last speakers of Haketia, Moroccan Judeo-Spanish. Born in Tangiers in 1939, … Leer más
I Want to Shout “I am a Frecha”, with Nomi Drachinsky
21 Nisan 5780 (14/04/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ . This week’s trivia question: Who wrote the Israeli song “Frecha”?
The word “frecha” was originally a Moroccan Jewish female name which in the 1970s came to be used in Israel as a … Leer más
A Passover Story by Sholem Aleichem
13 Nisan 5780 (07/04/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Sholem Aleichem (born Shalom Rabinowitz) is considered one of the fathers of modern Yiddish literature (along with Mendele Mocher Sforim and I.L. Peretz. He was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, and moved … Leer más
Emmanuel Levinas and the Essence of Judaism, with Prof. Adriana Menassé
6 Nisan 5780 (31/03/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the meaning of “the face” in Levinas’ philosophy?
Emmanuel Levinas was a Jewish philosopher who was born in Lithuania in 1906. He was fundamental in disseminating … Leer más
Coronavirus in Spain: Lockdown and Solidarity, with Sara Casado
29 Adar 5780 (24/03/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What kinds of services is the Cuidados Madrid Centro help group offering?
Spain has an alarming amount of coronavirus cases, which have been amply covered by … Leer más
New Guides to the Spanish Network of Jewish Quarters, with Alejandra Abulafia
22 Adar 5780 (17/03/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many cities are there in the official Spanish Network of Jewish Quarters, and how many of them are new?
Alejandra Abulafia was born into a Sephardic family … Leer más
Abulafia World Meeting
15 Adar 5780 (10/03/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did Alejandra Abulafia choose Jaén as the site for the Abulafia World Meeting?
Alejandra Abulafia was born into a Sephardic family in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she studied … Leer más
“The Little Boy Who Loved Hamantaschen”–A Purim Story by Mark Binder
8 Adar 5780 (03/03/2020) | adminENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why are we supposed to make a lot of noise when we hear the name of Haman?
This week we are celebrating Purim, so we thought you’d like … Leer más
Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Western Europe, with Santiago López
1 Adar 5780 (25/02/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: About what percentage of all hate crimes committed in France are against Jews?
Santiago López Rodríguez received a degree in Spanish History and Historical Heritage from the University … Leer más
Madrid Municipality Grants Use of Building for New Jewish Museum
23 Shevat 5780 (18/02/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – At the beginning of February the Mayor of Madrid announced that the municipality has signed an agreement with the Hispanic Jewish Foundation to grant it the use of a building in the city … Leer más
The V Humus Film Fest, with Sara “Neighborhood Planter” Casado
17 Shevat 5780 (11/02/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is “running and huerting”?
La Casa Encendida is a social and cultural center located in the Lavapiés area of Madrid. It is a dynamic space open to … Leer más
Yad Vashem Spain: Testimony, Memory, Education, with Samuel Bengio
3 Shevat 5780 (28/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: About how many Spanish educators have taken the course in how to teach the Holocaust which is given at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem?
On January 27, Europe commemorates … Leer más
Photographer: Documenting the Lodz Ghetto, with Dariusz Jablonski
25 Tevet 5780 (21/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
In 1987, several hundred color slides documenting scenes from the Lodz Ghetto during World War II were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna, Austria. These slides were the work … Leer más
Jews in the Arab World, with Lyn Julius
18 Tevet 5780 (14/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What percentage of the population of Baghdad was Jewish before 1940?
Lyn Julius is the British-born daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees. She graduated in International Relations from the University … Leer más
Counting Europe’s Jews, with Dr. Daniel Staetsky
10 Tevet 5780 (07/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: King David conducted one of the first censuses in history. Why did he do it?
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) is a London-based research institute and think tank. It … Leer más
Genocides in History, with Prof. Hernando Valencia Villa
3 Tevet 5780 (31/12/2019) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What are the four kinds of groups included in the 1948 Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide?
Dr. Hernando Valencia Villa has a PhD in Law from Yale University. … Leer más
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