I am excited to write about a movie I loved watching this year and listening to the soundtrack of it as I type. The movie received 8 Academy Award Nominations! BEST DIRECTOR - James Mangold, BEST ...

Located in Istanbul's Üsküdar district, the neighborhood of Kuzguncuk has long been populated by the city's Jewish community, though shrinking in number in recent years. The neighborhood is literally ...

Let’s start with the Jewish History Institute. Can you explain the goal in founding the institute and some of its projects? The Jewish History Institute goes back 70 years ago. It was founded in 1947.

Could you tell us a little about ‘Jews of Tire Project’? How did it start? I am the director of external relations and social projects at the Municipality of Tire, Izmir Province in western Turkey. In ...

Jak Eskinazi was elected as the Chairman of Aegean Textile and Raw Materials Exporters Association (ETHIB). Jak Eskinazi, as the only candidate, got all 39 votes and became the new Chairman of the ...

Izmir Alsancak Şaar Aşamayim Synagogue which was rebuilt and turned into a ´Jewish Community Center´ has opened its doors with a ceremony on December 1st. Alsancak Şaar Aşamayim Synagogue which was ...

I have always been interested in the history of my hometown of Antalya. In particular, elements of the city's cosmopolitan past have always deeply intrigued me. At the start of the 20th century, the ...

Hadith number 6985 of the 41 st book from the Hadith collection known as Sahih Muslim, compiled by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj native of Nishapur in modern-day eastern Iran, reads as follows: Abu Huraira ...

I am very happy. I studied for four and a half years for this book. I had listed what I wanted to know. For example, I was wondering about the defamation of Atatürk’s being an English spy. Our minds ...

The 2019 results of Kadir Has University´s ´Social and Political Trends in Turkey´ research that has been conducted for 10 years, revealing the public impulses, were announced on January 15th. The ...

The emotional and informative documentary by Movistar, 'Dokumentaryo de Movistar en Estambol' is telling about Şalom's Ladino (Judeo Espagnol) magazine 'El Amaneser', Sephardic Jews in Istanbul and ...