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Five minutes ago, I discovered that Isaac Choua is not only someone preserving Lebanese Jewish memory. He is Rabbi Isaac Choua, a rabbinic adviser and board member of the Sephardic Brotherhood of America.
Stronger Together Against Islamist Extremism
A new generation of Sidonians is speaking openly about a part of the city's history that was too often ignored.
Thank you for having the courage to film one of the videos I have been waiting years to see. You probably have no idea how much this means to me.
Cohen, the legendary interviewer, not to be confused with the Jewish royal family that has run VSL for decades, finally caught up with Zorchinsky and Sylver at Ben-Gurion University event in Montreal.
The relationship between the ancient Judeans and the Sidonians was a relationship of neighbors, traders, craftsmen, religious rivals, and spiritual borderlands.
Anastasia Zorchinsky issued a forceful response after an overnight arson attempt was reported at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, Montreal.
Baghdad, June 1941. It is worth noting that Eshayek himself is from Baghdad, so this is not some distant historical reference for him. It comes from a city tied to his own roots.
I have been monitoring Neil Oberman’s work for a while now.
Sidon was not Judea, and it was not conquered by Asher. But in the Hebrew Bible, Sidon appears at the northern edge of Asher’s inheritance, where Israelite geography met the Phoenician coast. Asher’s world was one of oil, orchards, sea routes, borderlands, and unfinished conquest, making Sidon not a hidden Judean city, but a powerful Phoenician place remembered inside Hebrew biblical memory.
Jewish memory is not foreign to the Arab world. It belongs to it. For centuries, Jews and Muslims lived as neighbors, sometimes unequally, sometimes tensely, but often with deep cultural connection. Arabic was a Jewish language. Baghdad, Cairo, Fez, Córdoba, Damascus, Aleppo, Sidon, Beirut, and Jerusalem were all part of Jewish history. The protection of Jews by Arab and Muslim societies should not be romanticized, but it should be remembered. It proves that another relationship was possible. It proves that coexistence is not a Western invention. It existed in the Middle East, in North Africa, in al-Andalus, in Ottoman cities, and in Muslim homes that opened their doors to Jews in danger.
Montreal loves Jewish culture. The bagels, the hospitals, the writers, the memory work, the whole soul of it. Now try protecting Jews. Safety is the minimum.
A new Fashion & Lifestyle section for Zidon News explores style, beauty, cafés, food, design, and personal expression as softer ways to carry Sidon’s identity into the future.
A Sidon-inspired challah movement could become a gentle cultural bridge: women, bread, ritual, and memory reconnecting Jewish roots with Lebanese history through something warmer than politics.
Across the Middle East, old synagogues, family archives, and vanished communities are no longer only private memories. They are becoming civic questions: who preserves them, who narrates them, and who is allowed to return through history before returning in person?