eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
8 February 2019
Mazal Tov/Mabrouk to Elan S. Carr, the U.S. Department of State’s new Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism. 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, and others—by signing the Combat anti-Semitism Pledge in support of Special Envoy Elan Carr
