Approximately $100,000 was raised for the purposes of the Hellenic Educational Fund of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America through the successful benefit concert recently held at Weill Recital Hall at the famed Carnegie Hall complex in Manhattan. The theme of the concert was “The Music of Athanasios Zervas – Letters on Three Luminaries: From Ancient to Modern Hellenism – A Tribute to Greek Education”. Organized by the archdiocesan Department of Greek Education, the event marked the celebration of Three Hierarchs and Greek Letters Day. “It was a way of raising awareness to support Greek education, which is why the…
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The 2023 Northwood University Freedom Seminar Lecture Series will focus on the importance of economic freedom for development and describe how recent trends in trade and government policies pose a threat to economic freedom in the United States And in the world. “The Northwood University Freedom Seminar is an annual symposium on the free enterprise system led by distinguished academics and business leaders,” said Dr. Dale Matcheck, chair of economics at Northwood University. Northwood University. “The purpose of the seminar is to study topics of greatest interest to local, national and global audiences.”A global trend toward greater economic freedom in…
In Chicago’s long and rich literary history, few, if any, writers have worked as hard at their craft as Harry Mark Petrakis. He is the author of dozens of books, one of which, “A Dream of Kings,” became a bestseller and a 1969 film starring Anthony Quinn. Its work firmly rooted in its own Greek-American community and his experiences, he has also written hundreds of short stories, non-fiction books and three beautiful memoirs. He was always writing, and he never stopped writing, contributing frank and nostalgic recollections to the opinion pages of the Sun-Times in recent years. The last of…
Founder of modern sleep research and sleep disorder medicine. September 29, 1934 (Detroit, Michigan) – December 18, 2023 (Plantation, Florida) Dr. Anthony (Tony) Kales was born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan – the son of Greek immigrants, Demetrios and Demetra (Partalis) Kales, from the small Greek-speaking mountain village of Kato Lesnitsa in northern Epirus, directly on the border Greek-Albanian. . His native language was Greek and he learned English when he entered kindergarten. His childhood was marked by a rich cultural heritage that instilled in him a deep sense of identity and community. Growing up, he excelled in school and…
“Whiteness studies” is all the rage these days. My friends who teach US history have told me that this point of view has “completely taken over” studies of American ethnic history. I can’t vouch for this, but I do know that I constantly see people stating, as a “fact”, that Irish, Italians, Jews and other “ethnic” white Americans were not considered “white”. » until a certain time. in the mid-to-late 20th century, reflecting the fact that this understanding of American history became widespread.The relevant scientific literature appears to have begun with Noel Ignatiev’s book “How the Irish became white”, and…
Update: The City of Greece filed a motion Friday asking the court to vacate its earlier default judgment. In a statement, Greek Town Supervisor Bill Reilich blamed the town’s no-show on “an innocent and good faith administrative error.” He added that the city supports the police department, which “strongly denies the allegations” and intends to vigorously defend itself against the lawsuit in court – if given the opportunity.The original story is below:When he called 911 in late summer 2023, all Ken Budinski wanted was to save his beloved Arborvitaes trees from being cut down by workers at the nearby auto…
By Fotis Kaliampakos After 22 years, the Holy Liturgy resounded again in the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas, for the first time on the day of its celebration at “Ground Zero” in Manhattan. One of the oldest Greek Orthodox churches in the United States, it was destroyed by fire and the fall of the ruins of the Twin Towers on the 11th.th of September 2001. Through the efforts and sacrifices of the entire Greek American community, the church was restored not only as a church for the Greek American community and visitors to Greece, but also as a as…
Haiti – Economy: Mache.A SA, selected by the “Star-Up Chile” business accelerator program09/17/2012 10:13:48 Mache.A SA, a Haiti-based startup, has been selected to be part of Start-Up Chile, a world-renowned business accelerator program sponsored by the Government of Chile. This year, after receiving more than 1,500 applications from 61 countries, Start-Up Chile announced a list of 101 startups selected to be part of its fifth generation.Mache.A is a mobile and web-based agricultural platform that aggregates supply from small farmers and connects them to organic produce retailers and processors. The startup was recently recognized as a semi-finalist in the 2012 Dell…
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will travel to Washington on Thursday for the 5th round of the Greek-American strategic dialogue, the Greek Foreign Ministry announced, ANA reports.On Friday, February 9, Gerapetritis will meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department.After the meeting, they will announce the start of the 5th Greek-American Strategic Dialogue, in which Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou and Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis will participate.Topics that will be discussed during the dialogue include regional developments, defense and security, humanitarian challenges and disaster preparedness, energy and environment, law enforcement…
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