Linda Jiménez
Genie Milgrom: Ancestral Memory and Knesset Conference on “Bnei Anousim”
6 Kislev 5776 (17/11/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is “ancestral memory”?
Genie Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. From a young age, … Leer más
Dr. Natan Sznaider: Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
29 Heshvan 5776 (10/11/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How is the Holocaust remembered differently in different countries?
Dr. Natan Sznaider is a Full Professor at the School of Behavioral Sciences of The Academic College … Leer más
Rea Mochiach: 11th Century Poetry, 21st Century Music
22 Heshvan 5776 (03/11/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What kind of musical instrument is the Kamanché, and where did it originate?
Israeli musicians Berry Sakharof and Rea Mochiach are very popular rock musicians in … Leer más
Dr. Saúl Weisleder: Costa Rica’s Jewish Community, Past and Present
15 Heshvan 5776 (27/10/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What does the word “polaquear” mean in modern Costa Rican Spanish, and where does the term come from?
Dr. Saúl Weisleder was born in San José, … Leer más
Genie Milgrom’s 15 Grandmothers
8 Heshvan 5776 (20/10/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What vestiges of a Jewish past are there in the Spanish town of Fermoselle, on the Portuguese border?
Genie Milgrom was born in Havana Cuba into … Leer más
Jewish Artists Exhibiting in Madrid
1 Heshvan 5776 (13/10/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where and when was the organization AJAPE founded?
AJAPE is an association of Jewish artists which will be exhibiting at Espacio Ronda, a cultural center in … Leer más
The Workmen’s Circle’s I.L. Peretz “Shule”: Promoting Jewish Culture and Social and Economic Justice
24 Tishri 5776 (06/10/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How is the Workmen’s Circle Shule’s Bar and Bat Mitzvah program different from traditional programs?
The Workmen’s Circle or Der Arbeter Ring is an American Jewish … Leer más
Ilan Ronen: The Food Paradox
9 Tishri 5776 (21/09/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why is modern technology, such as drip irrigation actually bad for farmers in rural areas of Africa?
Ilan Ronen grew up on a … Leer más
Julia López Fuentes — AJC Fellows Program
18 Elul 5775 (01/09/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How long is the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program, and where is it held?
We recently spoke with Shiri Sandler, the US Director … Leer más
Al Gordon: WJPR Radio
11 Elul 5775 (25/08/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is a “part-15” radio station?
Al Gordon has been in radio broadcasting for four decades. He began his career in Miami, later … Leer más
William Gertz Runyan: Yankev (Jacob) Botoshansky, a little-known Yiddish Writer
4 Elul 5775 (18/08/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where was Yiddish writer Jacob Botoshansky born, and why did he emigrate to Buenos Aires?
William Gertz Runyan is a graduate student in … Leer más
Dr. Aviad Moreno—The History of Moroccan Jews
27 Av 5775 (11/08/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: About how many Jews live in Morocco today?
Dr. Aviad Moreno is a member of the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University. … Leer más
Heidi Levine, Award-winning Photojournalist
20 Av 5775 (04/08/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What advantages do women journalists have over their male colleagues when reporting from conflict zones?
Heidi Levine was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Israel … Leer más
David Hatchwell—President of the Jewish Community of Madrid
13 Av 5775 (28/07/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What did the Jewish Community of Madrid do recently to show solidarity with the Christian communities in the Middle East and Africa?
David Hatchwell is President … Leer más
Rebecca Strong: Who is Mr. Plutin?
6 Av 5775 (21/07/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was the “fifth line” on Soviet documents?
Rebecca Strong is a writer and painter. She was born in the Soviet Union and emigrated to the … Leer más
Dr. Jeroni Alsina–Shadows of Fire: Romance and the Greatest 20th Century Plot
28 Tammuz 5775 (14/07/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: In which two countries were the greatest number of successful kidney transplants performed in the 1960s?
Dr. Jeroni Alsina is an eminent nephrologist from Barcelona. Between … Leer más
Father Gabriel Naddaf, Israeli Greek Orthodox Priest: Christians in the Middle East
20 Tammuz 5775 (07/07/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: About how many Christians are there in Israel, and where do most of them live?
Father Gabriel Naddaf is an Israeli priest of the Greek Orthodox … Leer más
Dr. Asher Maoz: Religious Freedom in the Middle East
13 Tammuz 5775 (30/06/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What are the different types of schools in Israel, and how is religion taught in them?
Dr. Asher Maoz is the Dean of the Peres Academic … Leer más
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, Holocaust Educator
7 Tammuz 5775 (23/06/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is unique about Holocaust education in the state of New Jersey?
For more than 35 years, the charismatic rabbi, author and teacher, … Leer más
Manuel Mira, Novelist
30 Sivan 5775 (16/06/2015) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Where was the Danone (or Dannon) company founded and where was the yogurt sold at first?
Manuel Mira was born in Orihuela, Spain, in 1945. He … Leer más
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ACTUALIDAD
Flores #Bringthemhome
24 Heshvan 5785 (24/11/2024) | Raquel Cornago
LA GUERRA EN LAS REDES – Tenemos entendido, al menos en otras guerras de Israel, que el término utilizado para llamar a los soldados de las FDI es “flores” (prajim). Ivri Dickstein Z”L , le mando bombones y … Leer más
CULTURA
Boris Malkovsky: tiempo de fusión
24 Heshvan 5785 (24/11/2024) | Jorge Rozemblum
PONLE NOTAS – Boris Malkovsky es un compositor israelí y maestro del bayan (un acordeón de botones ruso). Debutó para el sello Tzadik en 2007 con Time Petah-Tiqva y aparece como un brillante ejemplo en su serie de … Leer más
VIDA JUDÍA
¿Qué es la Melijá (o salazón)?
24 Heshvan 5785 (24/11/2024) | Jorge Rozemblum
CONCEPTOS JUDÍOS, CON IRIT GREEN – Existe en la halajá un proceso que permite la “kasherización” de las carnes, que se denomina melijá o salinización: hay muchas opiniones al respecto pero una gran mayoría de rabinos dan un … Leer más
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