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Sephardic culture festival to be inaugurated in Izmir

The International Izmir Sephardic Culture Festival, which was organized first four years ago to promote the centuries-old culture of Sephardic Jews, is to kick off this year as well in Türkiye's Izmir.

Victims of 2003 synagogue attacks remembered in Istanbul

The victims of the attacks on two synagogues in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu and Şişli district in 2003 were remembered by Turkish citizens. The 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four different locations in the city.

Turkish Jewish weekly Şalom celebrates its 75 anniversary

Şalom, which had started its publication life on 1947, with the Ladino motto "A lo tuerto tuerto, a lo dereço dereço (roughly translated to; To the crooked crooked, to the true true), is celebrating its 75th birthday.

İzmir’s old Jewish neighborhood to turn into museum

An old Jewish neighborhood in the western province of İzmir, where some nine synagogues exist, will turn into an open museum. According to an expert, the area was home to 30,000 Jewish citizens.

Monumental synagogue emerges from ancient ruins in Turkey

Relics from the largest known synagogue of antiquity will go on display next year in a museum in western Turkey.

Barcelona’s old synagogue vandalised

The main façade of the old Jewish temple of the Catalan capital has appeared with graffiti and with the mezuzah of the door torn off.

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