Nigeria's Jews, viral Jewish Twitter handle, Indian Jewish food, and more!
Nigeria's Jews, viral Jewish Twitter handle, Indian Jewish food, and more!
Go around the Jewish world with us this week. 🌏 ✡️
Every week, we scrub the web to find you the most intriguing articles, videos, and other content from around the Jewish world! Yalla, let’s go:
The Jewish community of Nigeria – in pictures
To accompany a new long read about the small Jewish diaspora in Nigeria, award-winning photographer Emeke Obanor visited a synagogue in Port Harcourt to see how its congregation worships.
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Twitter account goes viral for sharing Easter explainer thread using Jewish jargon
One of the people behind the “JewWhoHasitAll” handle says the goal is “to make people more aware of the dominant culture, more aware of the Christian-normative society that we live in.”
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The surprising landscape of Indian Jewish food
Separated by geography and language, there's not much that might seem to connect India's five dwindling Jewish communities – except praying in Hebrew, and food.
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Zelensky the Jewish Hero
Today, a Jewish comedian has become the leader of Ukraine as it faces a brutal enemy bent on the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. He has, moreover, become a hero for much of the free world in the process.
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'It Was Paradise at the Time': The Little-known Story of the Jews of Indonesia
Before World War II, the Dutch East Indies colony was home to hundreds of “Baghdadi” Jews from Iraq who emigrated to Southeast Asia. While most had left, their presence is still felt in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
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📹 Video of the Week
Rediscovering the rich history of Jewish life in Turkey
🔦 Spotlight On: Future of Jewish 25
JOOL’s Jewish Organization of the Week is actually 25 of the Jewish world’s most forward-thinking, innovative organizations in 2022. Read more »
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» Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance
» Baking Challah in Dubai: A Jewish Community Heads Out Into the Open
» Lebanese Muslim who posed as Orthodox Jew arrives in Israel to convert
» Women are now leading three liberal-religious-Israeli movements
» Judaism has its quirks but it is good at dealing with death