Event Archives - Kulanu Supporting Isolated, Emerging, and Returning Jewish Communities Around the Globe Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:55:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://kulanu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/favicon111-1.png Event Archives - Kulanu 32 32 From Evangelical Bishop to Jewish Leader: The Jewish Communities of Cameroon: Watch here! https://kulanu.org/join-us-on-monday/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:03:42 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=15452 On Monday, June 21, Kulanu Online Speaker Series presented a session about the Jewish communities in Cameroon featuring Laurent Elouna, a community leader in Cameroon. He shared videos and photos about Jewish life in the West African country. From Evangelical Bishop to Jewish Leader: The Jewish Communities of Cameroon Monday, June 21 at 1 pm […]

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]]> On Monday, June 21, Kulanu Online Speaker Series presented a session about the Jewish communities in Cameroon featuring Laurent Elouna, a community leader in Cameroon. He shared videos and photos about Jewish life in the West African country.

From Evangelical Bishop to Jewish Leader:
The Jewish Communities of Cameroon

Monday, June 21 at
1 pm Eastern | 10 am Pacific | 8 pm in Israel                                                                                                                                                                                         

Watch here: https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/recorded-sessions/

Sponsorships are available starting at $50.

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]]> Online Speaker Series Session on Majorca! – Watch here! https://kulanu.org/join-us-on-tuesday-for-our-online-speaker-series-session-on-majorca/ Mon, 24 May 2021 05:43:08 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=15309 On Tuesday, May 25,  we heard from Dani Rotstein, the community leader in Majorca. He shared stories and photos and explained what it is like to live on the Spanish island, where many are returning to their Jewish roots. Heartache and Happiness on the Islands of Palms: The Story of the Jews of Majorca Featured […]

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]]> On Tuesday, May 25,  we heard from Dani Rotstein, the community leader in Majorca. He shared stories and photos and explained what it is like to live on the Spanish island, where many are returning to their Jewish roots.

Heartache and Happiness on the Islands of Palms: The Story of the Jews of Majorca

Featured Dani Rotstein, the community leader in Majorca

Tuesday, May 25 at 1 pm ET

Watch here: kulanu.org/recorded-sessions

Sponsorships are available starting at $50.

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]]> Next Kulanu Online Speaker Series Session https://kulanu.org/next-kulanu-online-speaker-series-session/ Thu, 20 May 2021 23:25:12 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=15315 From Evangelical Bishop to Jewish Leader: The Jewish Communities of Cameroon Featuring Laurent Elouna, a community leader in Cameroon Monday, June 21 at 1 pm ET – Sign up here. Sponsorships are available starting at $50. Click here to watch previously recorded sessions.

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Featuring Laurent Elouna, a community leader in Cameroon
Monday, June 21 at 1 pm ET – Sign up here.
Sponsorships are available starting at $50.

Click here to watch previously recorded sessions.

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]]> Kulanu Online Speaker Series on Tanzania This Thursday https://kulanu.org/kulanu-online-speaker-series-on-tanzania-this-thursday/ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:09:18 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=15136 KULANU ONLINE SPEAKER SESSION Jews that Speak Swahili and Arabic! The Jewish Community in Tanzania Join us this Thursday for our Online Speaker Series session with Yehudah Amir Kahalani and Efrat Yosef the community leaders in Tanzania (pictured above). The couple will share what it is like to live as Jews, raise their three daughters, […]

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Jews that Speak Swahili and Arabic!
The Jewish Community in Tanzania

Join us this Thursday for our Online Speaker Series session with Yehudah Amir Kahalani and Efrat Yosef the community leaders in Tanzania (pictured above). The couple will share what it is like to live as Jews, raise their three daughters, and lead their community in Tanzania. There will even be a special treat of Yemeni-style chanting!

Thursday, April 22 at 1 pm Eastern
10 am Pacific | 8 pm in Israel and Tanzania

Sponsorships are available starting at $50.

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]]> Jewish Majorca Virtual Series: Modern Day Queen Esthers & their Crypto Jewish Stories https://kulanu.org/jewish-majorca-virtual-series-modern-day-queen-esther-their-crypto-jewish-stories/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:36:54 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14734 PART 1 – FEBRUARY 28TH- 1 PM EST: Recovering my Cuban Jewish roots hidden in Family Recipes with Genie Milgrom from Miami, USA. PART 2 – MARCH 7TH – 1 PM EST: Keeping the Calabrian Crypto-Jewish Spirit Alive with Barbara Aiello from Serrastretta, Italy. PART 3 – MARCH 14TH – 1 PM EST: Genetics as […]

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]]> PART 1 – FEBRUARY 28TH- 1 PM EST: Recovering my Cuban Jewish roots hidden in Family Recipes with Genie Milgrom from Miami, USA.

PART 2 – MARCH 7TH – 1 PM EST: Keeping the Calabrian Crypto-Jewish Spirit Alive with Barbara Aiello from Serrastretta, Italy.

PART 3 – MARCH 14TH – 1 PM EST: Genetics as a tool to preserve Portuguese Jewish Memory with Inês Nogueiro, from Bragança, Portugal.

PART 4 – MARCH 21ST – 1 PM EST: Re-connecting with Catalan Jewish Identity through Music with Moriah Ferrus from Barcelona, Spain.

Sign up for this free series at
https://www.jewishmajorca.com/purim

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]]> A Museum Reborn https://kulanu.org/a-museum-reborn/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:26:50 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14732 The global inauguration of the Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv, Israel will take place online on Sunday, February 21 at 2 pm. The new core exhibit features photographs from around the world, including an image of brides after Kulanu’s conversions in Madagascar taken by board member Barbara Vinick and other Kulanu photos. […]

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]]> The global inauguration of the Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv, Israel will take place online on Sunday, February 21 at 2 pm. The new core exhibit features photographs from around the world, including an image of brides after Kulanu’s conversions in Madagascar taken by board member Barbara Vinick and other Kulanu photos.

Watch live here: https://www.beit-hatfutsot.com

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]]> 2020 Kulanu Impact Stories – Torah Scrolls Donated to Brazil and Honduras https://kulanu.org/2020-kulanu-impact-stories-torah-scrolls-donated-to-brazil-and-honduras/ Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:43:13 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14395 Dear Friends, As 2020 comes to a close we are reflecting on Kulanu’s accomplishments this year, supporting Jewish communities around the globe. We prepared the story below on a Torah for Brazil as the first of our 2020 impact stories. Another Torah for Honduras was ready to be picked up in California, but with Covid-19 […]

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As 2020 comes to a close we are reflecting on Kulanu’s accomplishments this year, supporting Jewish communities around the globe. We prepared the story below on a Torah for Brazil as the first of our 2020 impact stories. Another Torah for Honduras was ready to be picked up in California, but with Covid-19 we didn’t know when they would manage to get it from the United States. We are thrilled to invite you to join us on Zoom tomorrow, Sunday, December 27 at 1 pm EST to witness the arrival of the Torah in Honduras! (Click here for the Zoom details.)

Earlier this year, one of our partner communities in Brazil received a Sefer Torah, which was donated to Kulanu by the Tree of Life Synagogue in Oil City, Pennsylvania which was closing.

Members of the Tree of Life Synagogue were comforted to see how their Torah was treasured by the Bereshit Olam Jewish community in the Recife area of Brazil. Composed of descendants of Crypto-Jews (Anusim forced to abandon Judaism in prior generations), the Bereshit Olam was a thriving Jewish community with one missing piece, a Torah.

Kulanu volunteer Hana Fried was delighted to be invited to transfer the Torah, as her own grandfather had made his home in this very same community. Leaders of the community, Carlos Maciel and Odmar Braga were overcome with emotion when they arrived at the airport in Rio de Janeiro to meet Hana.

“We were living the greatest privilege a Jew could ever have: holding and bringing a Torah to the community. Every step…was full of hope, happiness and anxiety…Hours seemed to be days and we could hardly wait for the moment to have the Torah held and embraced,” shared Odmar Pinheiro Braga and Carlos José Maciel Alves

Now, the members of Bereshit Olam no longer have to travel to access a Torah and can expand and grow their centuries-old community.

Kulanu needs your help to continue its support of our many international partner communities so that congregations like the Bereshit Olam in Brazil can not only function but thrive.

Please donate online now or send a check to Kulanu, c/o Harriet Bograd (address below) to secure Kulanu’s future! If you have already given, thank you!

Please consider making a multi-year donation or a regular monthly gift that will allow us to efficiently plan for the future.

Thank you for being part of “all of us”!

Warm regards,
Harriet
and “all of us” at Kulanu

Harriet Bograd, President
Kulanu Inc
165 West End Ave 3R
New York, NY, 10023

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]]> Arrival of the Sefer Torah in Honduras https://kulanu.org/arrival-of-the-sefer-torah-in-honduras/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:58:04 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14367 Kulanu is very proud to have made possible a Torah donation to the community of Honduras. The ceremony will be mostly conducted in Spanish.  All are welcome to attend on zoom. (Link below.)    Arrival of the Sefer Torah from Kulanu  27 December 2020 12:00 PM Honduras 1:00 PM East Coast of the US 10:00 […]

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Kulanu is very proud to have made possible a Torah donation to the community of Honduras. The ceremony will be mostly conducted in Spanish.  All are welcome to attend on zoom. (Link below.)

 

 Arrival of the Sefer Torah from Kulanu
 27 December 2020
12:00 PM Honduras
1:00 PM East Coast of the US
10:00 AM West Coast of the US

Speakers include:

  • Lila Held and  Hazzan Lance Tapper of Congregation Beth Shalom of Whittier, California
  • Bonita Sussman, First Vice President of Kulanu
  • Genie Milgrom, Director of Anousim of Kulanu
  • Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum of Ohr Torah Stone in Israel
  • Eliseo Gonzalez
  • Rabbi Itzjak Abud
  • Najman Gonzales
Meeting Number: 857 5210 6222
Password: 121212

 

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]]> Celebrate Chanukah with “All of us!” https://kulanu.org/celebrate-chanukah-with-all-of-us/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:15:49 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14203 Enjoy Jewish music from around the globe! We’ll share songs from our partner communities to help support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities. Kulanu in Song Chanukah Benefit will be aired on Tuesday, December 15 at 8 pm EST and again on Thursday, December 17, at 1 pm EST. Click here for more information and to sign up!

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]]> Enjoy Jewish music from around the globe! We’ll share songs from our partner communities to help support isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities.
Kulanu in Song Chanukah Benefit will be aired on Tuesday, December 15 at 8 pm EST and again on Thursday, December 17, at 1 pm EST.

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]]> Zoom-a-Thon: Kulanu in Song Chanukah Benefit https://kulanu.org/zoom-a-thon-kulanu-in-song-chanukah-benefit/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:13:26 +0000 https://kulanuarchive.kulanu.org/?p=14079 Dear Friends, We invite you to our Chanukah Zoom-a-thon to celebrate the music of our partner communities across the globe. Please save the date! It will be aired on Tuesday, December 15 at 8 pm EST and again on Thursday, December 17, at 1 pm EST. Take this opportunity to bring your menorah and celebrate the “nes” or miracle of the strength […]

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]]> Dear Friends,
We invite you to our Chanukah Zoom-a-thon to celebrate the music of our partner communities across the globe. Please save the date! It will be aired on Tuesday, December 15 at 8 pm EST and again on Thursday, December 17, at 1 pm EST. Take this opportunity to bring your menorah and celebrate the “nes” or miracle of the strength and diversity of the Jewish people for over two millennia since the Maccabean Revolt.

 

Our hope is that these formal and informal recordings of people around the world singing their own Jewish music will raise awareness that Jewish communities, no matter how far they may be, are all inter-connected. During these dark times of isolation and illness, it is even more important to celebrate the fact that there are Jews on every continent with richly varied cultures. Our shared traditions connect us across great distances and cultural divides.

 

Get your group involved! Click here to sign up as a community partner to join the list of participating groups or to let us know you are considering it. Community partners are groups that agree to publicize this event to their members or mailing list, to introduce them to the work of Kulanu across the globe. Community partners are not required to donate funds.

 

Click here to contribute funding to this exciting event. Please write “Chanukah Sponsor” in the comments. (Community partners and organizational sponsors of $100 or more will have their logo displayed on our website.)

 

Please share the news of this concert to everyone on your mailing lists to introduce them to the work of Kulanu across the globe. Click here to view a list of communities and organizations that have signed up so far!

 

To learn more, please visit kulanu.org/zoom-a-thon We look forward to celebrating Chanukah with you!

 

Best,
Harriet and Boni
Harriet Bograd, President, Kulanu, Inc.
Bonita Nathan Sussman, Vice President, Kulanu, Inc.

 

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