http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me Site Under Construction Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:12:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sir (Ellice) Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet GBE (20 December 1881 - 13 August 1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the Lebanese Sassoon Jewish banking family. Interestingly, the Magen Avraham Synagogue awaiting renovation in Beirut today is said to have been financed by a wealthy "Sassoon family from the East" ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/07/31/victor-sassoon-lebanese-banking-legend-of-shanghai/ It's not easy being Jewish in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis." The last vestiges of the Jewish community in Lebanon, the Magen Abraham synagogue in the Lebanese capital, reflects a community falling into oblivion. Built ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/07/21/naharnet-efforts-underway-to-revive-lebanons-jewish-community/ Strolling through the suburbs of Beirut, just past Abu Joseph’s (impeccable) sandwich shop, down the cobblestone alley and around the corner, we enter a typical Beirut bookshop. Unlike most facets of Lebanese daily life, poisoned by the routine political discourse, plenty of people, both young and old, are sipping ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/07/18/beirut-eternal-capital-of-literary-expression-in-the-middle-east/ Yfrah Neaman / يفراح نيعمان‎ is a world-renowned Lebanese violinist and professor. He was born to Jewish parents in the southern port town of Sidon where at an early age he acquired a keen talent which would later develop into one of the greatest contributions to the classical music world ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/06/07/yfrah-neaman-feb13-1923-jan-4-2003-violin-virtuoso-and-teacher%e2%80%8e/ http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/05/29/general-michel-sleiman-president-of-the-republic/ Report: Bahrain to name Jewish ambassador to US Bahrain will name a Jewish ambassador to the United States, a report said. Huda Azar Nunu, a Jewish woman who is a lawmaker in Bahrain's upper house, will be named to the Washington position, according to a report this week in A Sharq ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/04/29/where-lebanon-was-where-lebanon-is-today/ It is Easter Monday, and the weather is so beautiful, it hurts to stay inside! I am resolved to find where the synagogue is - come rain or come more of this blissful sunshine!! Better hurry, Old Saida won't stay the same for long, massive restoration work is taking place ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/04/28/jol-exclusive-tour-sidons-historic-jewish-neighborhoods/ Direct Link Please Click here Al Jazeera's reportage on Wadi Abu Jmil and Lebanon's Jewish community. Whether some call it modernization or a cultural genocide by the government, Beirut is quickly losing it's identity at the expense of the materialistic ambitions of government leaders and foreign investors. Regardless of intent, ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/04/23/al-jazeera-beiruts-jewish-heritage-under-threat/ http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/04/13/13-avril-1975-remember-and-never-repeat-anniversary-of-the-lebanese-civil-war/ ماذا يجري في وادي أبو جميل؟ جوان فرشخ بجالي خلال الحرب، ربح وادي أبو جميل تسميات كثيرة، وخسر سكّانه. ثمّ خسر هويته حينما بدأت ورشة إعادة الإعمار بهدم أبنيته قبل أسابيع. وهو اليوم قد يخسر الآثار التي كانت دفينة في أرضه، وكذلك آخر شاهد على هويّته: كنيس ماغن أبراهام. فقد قامت شركة «سوليدير» ... http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org/me/2008/04/12/12-april-2008-al-akhbar-what-is-happening-in-wadi-abu-jmil/