COMMUNITY

Prof. Dr. Rejin Kebudi has been chosen as the Secretary-General Elect of the SIOP - International Society of Pediatric Oncology.

Şalom Newspaper writer Dr. Bahar Akpinar made a presentation at the annual conference organized by The British Association for Holocaust Studies (BAHS).

Our athletes won the bronze medal in the field of table tennis at the 21st World Maccabiah Games.

The Turkish Jewish Community stated that 36 tombstones have been broken in the Hasköy Jewish Cemetery, in Istanbul.

The 21st Maccabiah Games are starting on July 14th, in Israel. Turkey will be participating in this year´s games with a crowded team of 50 athletes.

The Historical Italian Synagogue Kal de Los Francos welcomed Karol Sidon who has been serving as the Chief Rabbi of the city of Prag and Czechia since 1992, on Thursday, June 30th.

The documentary titled ´Izmir´s Sephardic Women Hand in Hand´ is meeting the audience on July 6th at the French Cultural Center in Izmir.

A cello concert was performed by Umut Sağlam at the Hemdat Israel Synagogue in Kadiköy, Istanbul, in the framework of the 50th Istanbul Music Festival organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV).

Organized by the Union of the Jews of Turkey in Israel (IYT - Itahdut Yotsei Turkia), with the support of the Turkey Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA), the comedy that has received the Best Theatre Play Award ´Seninle Evlenir miyim? (Would I Marry You?)´ was performed in Tel Aviv on dates June 16th and 18th.

The tenth annual conference of Sefarad - Society of Sephardic Studies will be held in Belgrade, between the dates June 28th and 30th.

Israel´s travel warnings for its citizens visiting Turkey due to possible attacks by Iran continue. The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid stated that he would be visiting Turkey on Thursday.

The regulation allowing the Minority Foundations to elect their board of directors has been published in the Government Gazette.

Turkey´s Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva, during his interview with The Jerusalem Post newspaper, stated that the Israeli tourists were not under any threat in Turkey and that indeed they were safe here.

During the 32nd convention of the Conference of European Rabbis held in Munich, Rabbi Izak Peres from the Turkish Jewish Community was appointed as a member of the association´s Standing Committee Veida Matmedet.

The ´Yako Taragano Synagogue Chants Choir´ has performed in the context of the ´Capital Culture Road Festival´ organized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The book ´Jewish Cuisine of Edirne´, written by Aydemir Ay and Dr. Yilmaz Seçim, and published by the Municipality of Edirne in three different languages, Turkish, English, and Ladino, has been awarded at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2022.

The 2021-2022 Collective Bat Mitzvah Ceremony of the Annette Bat Mitzvah Club, which had been established within the Turkish Jewish Community´s Chief Rabbinate Education Commission (HEGKOM) in 2002, was realized in the Neve Shalom Synagogue on Sunday, May 29th.

The Historical Italian Synagogue Kal de Los Francos housed the traditional Shavuot ceremony on Sunday, May 29th, after the two-and-a-half-year break due to the pandemic.

The famous writer, poet, and artist Josef Habib Gerez lost his life.

The ´Sepharad - Traces of a Multicultural Heritage´ exhibition, organized in the framework of the 530th anniversary of the Sephardic Jews´ coming to the Ottoman lands, is opened in Spain.