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In Honor of Elan S. Carr, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Monitoring & Combating anti-Semitism, who was inaugurated on 11 April 2019. Special Envoy Carr is an Iraqi Jew (descendant of Baghdad’s Chief Rabbi in the mid-1800s, Hakham Abdallah Somekh), an Arabic speaker, & U.S. Army Veteran. In 2003, he celebrated Hanukkah in a former palace of Saddam Hussein by lighting a Hanukkah Lamp sculpted by Oded Halahmy, the renowned Baghdad-born artist, proprietor of the Pomegranate Gallery in Jaffa & Soho, and a Distinguished Member of the ASF’s Board of Directors.
Please join the ASF and our friends & partners—the Sephardic Brotherhood of America, Sephardic Heritage Alliance, Inc., Moroccan Americans in New York, Philos Project, Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York, and others—by signing the Combat anti-Semitism Pledge in support of Special Envoy Carr.
15 April 2019
