August 17, 2006 ISLC to provide a "Sephardic Walking Tour" of the Lower East Side of New York 10am

August 16, 2006 ISLC lecture at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Society (IAJGS) Conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. "Sephardic History of the Lower East Side of New York" 10am.

April 30, 2006 Rally in Washington DC for Darfur

April 3, 2006 ISLC to join with Justice for Jews from Arab Countries at a bipartisan press conference on Capital Hill in Washington D.C. Numerous US Congressman and Senators will be participating and supporting this endeavor. (rescheduled for May 9)

April 2, 2006 Inter-agency meetings in Boston, MA.

April 1, 2006 The ISLC will make available, as we do each year before the holiday of Pesah, free MP3 (Podcasts) of Pirke Avot (the Ethics of the Fathers). They will be made available on the Website in English and this year--in Spanish as well.

Date TBD Montreal, Canada - ISLC is showing the film Forgotten Refugees - A film about the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century.

March 16-20, 2006 Miami: ISLC to present issues relating to addressing rights and redress of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries at multiple venues.

March 13, 2006 Taanit Esther prayers and a protest against Iran - 12:30pm at the Iranian Mission (622 3rd Ave. @ 40th St. NYC). Speak out against a Modern Day Haman. The event was organized by AMCHA. It is sponsored by The New York Board of Rabbis, Ramaz Middle School, The Frisch School, and Yeshiva University High School and the International Sephardic Leadership Council.

March 6, 2006 Shelomo Alfassa of ISLC is a guest on the 'Talkline with Zev Brenner' radio show (WSNR 620 AM) 9pm EST. It is heard in NYC, Northern NJ, and parts of Conn. The topic will be the Tajikistan synagogue destruction and the murder of the rabbi and chairman of the Tashkent, Uzbekistan community last week. The conversation will discuss the two countries involved, their history, Islamic nature, and current position on the world stage. The Zev Brenner show is rebroadcast via Talkline Radio on WLVJ 1040 AM in South Florida (Saturday midnight-2am) and in Israel on 94.6 FM and 90.5 FM.

March 5, 2006 Join the ISLC at the Touro College Graduate School of Jewish Studies conference at the Center for Jewish History, located at 15 West 16th Street in New York City. The conference is entitled "Conversion and Reversion to Judaism: From the Crusades to the Enlightenment."

March 5, 2006 ISLC joining in the memorial and protest for the brutal torture and murder of Ilan Halimi a"h, a French Sephardic Jew. 12pm at the French Consulate 5th Ave at 74th St. NYC. The event is led by Rabbi Avi Weiss of AMCHA-The Coalition for Jewish Concerns.

March 4, 2006 Stan Urman of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries will be speaking Friday night and Saturday afternoon in New York in association with the ISLC. His topic will be the international campaign to seek rights and redress for Jews expelled from Arab Countries after 1948.

March 4, 2006 New York - ISLC is showing the film Forgotten Refugees - A film about the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. 8pm. 511 Ave. R. (at Ocean Parkway) Bklyn, NY 11229

February 28, 2006 Rabbi Rakowitz has been rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie for over 25 years, and on this night will be speaking on the subject: "History of the New York Turkish-Cuban Sephardic Community." 8pm.

February 26, 2006 Together with Sephardic Bikur Holim, the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation is hosting a Bone Marrow donor recruitment drive at the Sephardic Community Center in Brooklyn, NY 10am-4 pm. ISLC will be providing volunteer support at the event.

February 26, 2006 The ISLC is joining with Moledet US, Americans for a Safe Israel, and The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to share the message "No Land for Peace - No Land for Hudna!" when Israeli Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres visits South Florida. There will be a rally at 6:30pm in Plantation, Florida. The address is 8200 Peters Road, Plantation, FL 33324.

February 14, 2006 Lunch and Learn Lecture in New York City.

February 5, 2006 Inter-agency meetings in New York City

February 4, 2006 Join us to meet Dr. Daniel Pipes who will be speaking in Brooklyn, New York 8pm. Beth Torah - 1061 Ocean Parkway. Brooklyn 11230.

February 1, 2006 Memorial for Greek Jewish Victims of the Holocaust at the Greek Consulate in New York City

January 31, 2006 Starting today the International Sephardic Leadership Council is providing Lunch and Learn Lectures in New York City. They will be given Midtown Manhattan on Tuesdays at 1230pm by appointment.

January 29, 2006 Join the ISLC at Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue, located at 280 Broome Street (on the corner of Allen) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where the fourth Annual Greek-Jewish Film Festival will start. Entrance: $10 1pm. (All parking meters are free on Sunday in New York.)

January 26, 2006 Join the ISLC as we attend an evening of "Sacred Music of the Ottoman Jews and Greeks: The Maftirim and the Psalters." Learn More

January 24, 2006 ISLC Showing "Glimpses of Sephardic Life" to the residents of the Sephardic Home in New York City.

POSTPONED January 24, 2006 ISLC special guest speaker, Rabbi Myron Rakowitz. He will speaking on the subject: "History of the New York Cuban Sephardic Community." Rabbi Rakowitz has been rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie for over 25 years.

January 18, 2006 "Arab Role in Holocaust Overlooked by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum" ISLC at a press conference at 2pm at the National Press Club, Edward R. Murrow Room, Washington, D.C. and at the National Synagogue Washington D.C. Speakers: Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York, president of AMCHA, Kenneth Timmerman, Chuck Morse, Shelomo Alfassa, and Edwin Black, the award-winning New York Times best selling author of IBM and the Holocaust and Banking on Baghdad.

January 7-9, 2006 ISLC attending the Shehebar Sephardic Center Annual Conference.

January 2-6, 2006 ISLC participating in the 2006 Orthodox General Assembly held in Jerusalem.

January 1-2, 2006 ISLC Rabbinical Director Rabbi Nissim Elnecave meeting with the Sephardic rabbinate in Rome, Italy.

December 14, 2005 Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, Shelomo Moshe Amar is the guest of honor at the Safra Synagogue in Aventura, Florida. Rabbi Elnecave of the ISLC to be in attendance.

December 13, 2005 Rabbi Elnecave of the ISLC is guest speaker at the Safra Synagogue in Aventura, Florida.

November 21, 2005 Memorial for Turkish Bombing Victims in New York City

November 11, 2005 (Mahaziké Torá) Turkish Kabalat Shabat at Sephardic Synagogue

November 1, 2005 ISLC representitives to visit The Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in New York to commemorate the heroism of Turkish diplomats during WWII.

October 30, 2005 ISLC represented on Israel National Radio by Ellen Horowitz and Shelomo Alfassa in regards to the Mt. Zion Situation.

October 27, 2005 Mahaziké Torá presents Rabbi Nissim Elnecave on the Me'am Lo'ez. Come enjoy a nice evening where we will learn a little from the beginning of the Torá, studying from the Me'am Lo'ez, the Sephardic Torá commentary written in 1689 by Haham Yakoub Huli of Constantinople. 8pm in Brooklyn, NY.

September 20, 2005 ISLC presents "Ups and Downs of Conducting Sephardic Geneology." Presentation to be held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando.

September 12-13, 2005 Projects and planning meeting in Brooklyn, New York

August 30, 2005 Projects and planning meeting in North Miami Beach.

August 21, 2005 Shelomo Alfassa of the ISLC made an appearance on the Andrea Shea-King radio show on WDBO in Central Florida, discussing the situation in Gaza.

August 15, 2005 Worldwide Solidarity Rally for the Land of Israel demonstrating against the Expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif and N. Samaria, ISLC to join with Americans For a Safe Israel and the Zionist Organization of America in Miami at a rally where Shelomo Alfassa of the ISLC has been asked to speak. Press Release Here.

August 14, 2005 Tisha B'Av

August 9, 2005 ISLC at the Conference for the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies.

April 14, 2005 - With the tradition to study the Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) the ISLC will make available free MP3's (digital audio files) of the Pirke Avot. These can be played on your computer, put on an iPod or burned to a CDrom.

April 12, 2005 - Target date for completion of the "Sephardic Synagogues of Jerusalem" photo exhibit.

April 7, 2005 - ISLC at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, "Folk Music of the Spanish Jews" with Joe Elias.

March 15, 2005 - ISLC releases a new film: "Glimpses of Sephardic Life" (Ojadas a La Vida Sefaradi) "Reminiscing With Daisy Alalouf Newell". This 40 minute DVD combines music and narration about life experiences in the Sephardic world by Daisy Alalouf Newell, a Sephardic woman whose parents were born in Salonika (Ladino and English).

March 15, 2005 - ISLC in Jerusalem, in attendance at the 25th anniversary of the Sephardic Educational Center. Note about the event.

March 1, 2005 - Target date for issuing Volume 2. Number 1. of the the International Sephardic Journal. (More)

February 23, 2005 - ISLC to visit Temple Israel in Orlando and discuss the Edict of Expulsion.

February 2, 2005 - Deadline for submission of papers for the International Sephardic Journal.

International Sephardic Journal Call for Papers (September 1, 2004 - February 2, 2005)

International Sephardic Journal welcoming first-person papers and stories (October 20, 2004 - February 2, 2005)

January 26, 2005 - The Farhud was discussed on New World Radio AM 1540 WNWR of Philadelphia. In a 20 minute interview, Farhud Recognition Project coordinator Shelomo Alfassa discussed the Farhud, the Holocaust and its affects in Arab lands and the goals of the Farhud Recognition Project. He also discussed Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. WNWR serves the metropolitan Philadelphia area, including Southern New Jersey and Northern Delaware.

January 22/23, 2005 - ISLC to co-sponsor an evening at Kahal Yosef, the great Iraqi synagogue in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. We are also co-sponsoring the event which will take place at Beth Tikva in Fullerton, California. Presentation will be made by Mr. Edwin Black on Hitler and the Iraqi Jews as well as a panel of survivors of the 1941 Farhud. Edwin Black Page

January 21, 2005 - Press conference organizaed at the Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial Museum where three national groups will simultaneously announce that they would officially recognize and remember "the Farhud" as a forgotten Holocaust pogrom. They will urge all Holocaust museums and educational courses worldwide to do likewise. ISLC to lead the program.

December 29, 2004 - ISLC Executive Director Shelomo Alfassa on Israel National News Radio, the Tovia Singer Show, discussing the recent ISLC survey of the population.

December 27, 2004 0650 EST - C-Span TV broadcast. Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000 Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. Lecture at Sephardic Congregation Magen David: Author Edwin Black explores the history of Iraq in his new book, "Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000 Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict." It chronicles Iraq from the days of Mohammed to the Mongols to the Ottoman Empire to the present day. The author stresses the importance that oil has played throughout Iraq's history as well as the role it will continue to play in the future - also the involvement of Hitler and the Arabs who targeted the Jews of Iraq.

November 30, 2004 - ISLC to sponsor an evening with Hillel at University of Central Florida, showing the film Emperors and Rebels: The True Story of Hanukah. This is a new educational documentary from Israel developed by leading experts on Jewish and Hellenistic history. There will also be a photo exhibit and a speaker. There is no charge to attend. (More)

November 17, 2004 - On November 17, 2004 the ISLC visited the Rollins College Program in Jewish Studies to discuss Sephardic Jewry with undergraduate students. (More)

November 14, 2004 - ISLC visits the Ladino group of Rockville for a Vijita de Alhad (More)

November 14, 2004 - ISLC in Rockville, MD: Delegation met Mr. Edwin Black at the Sephardic Congregation Magen David. This event was televised by C-Span. (More)

November 10, 2004 - ISLC in Miami: Delegation to meet Edwin Black at the Miami Press Club and Nova University.

November 1, 2004 - The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the International Society for Sephardic Progress hosted an evening with Mr. Edwin Black, the internationally known author. (More) (original press release)