Moses Elisaf is the first Jewish mayor of Greece. Image by Matt Hanson By Matt A. Hanson July 5, 2019 Small-town municipal elections may seem like an unlikely way to make history after 2,300 years of history, but that’s what happened in June when the Greek city of Ioannina elected a Jew as its mayor – the first in Greece, despite a large majority anti-Semitism. The elected mayor of Ioannina, originally from a region subject to the Ottoman Empire until 1913, his name is Moses Elisaf. He is 65 years old and a Romaniote Jew, a descendant of Europe’s oldest…
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The famous and lively Portokalos family has one more colossal celebration to celebrate in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which hits theaters on March 25. The original romantic comedy, premiered in 2002, followed the unconventional love story of Toula Portokalos. (Nia Vardalos) and Ian Miller (John Corbett) and the clash of their Greek and American cultural traditions. Fast forward more than a decade and the couple is once again struggling with their relationship, but with a daughter graduating from high school and the upcoming, now official, marriage of Toula’s parents. The film focuses on the looming question of love…
Dancers from the Orpheus Greek Dance Troupe will perform again this year at the Glenview Greek Fest, July 27-28, at SS. Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church (Lake Avenue and Wagner Road) Greek Fest returns to Glenview this month when Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church hosts a family-friendly event on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28. It takes place daily from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the church grounds at 1401 Wagner. Path. (at avenue du Lac). “Our festival allows us to continue to build on the positive relationship we have developed with our neighbors in…
Ancient Syria Today’s Syria, a country located in the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the oldest inhabited regions on the planet.The oldest human remains discovered in Syria date back around 700,000 years. Archaeologists have discovered skeletons and bones of Neanderthals who lived in the area at that time.Ebla, a Syrian city believed to have existed around 3,000 BC, is one of the oldest settlements excavated.Throughout antiquity, Syria was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Egyptians, Hittites, Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites, the Persians, Greeks and Romans.Ancient Syria was a region often…
Each week in February, in observance of Black History Month, The Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald Journal and Anderson Independent Mail will profile South Carolina’s historically black colleges and universities. This is part of a project that will culminate in March with a review of the state of HBCUs in South Carolina. Rich in history, Voorhees College is a private, historically black institution affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Voorhees College was established in 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, an alumna of Booker T. Washington. The first HBCU founded by an African-American woman, Wright modeled the school after Tuskegee Institute, where she…
A wide variety of digital resources are accessible via ResearchCulture.gra portal created by the National Documentation Center (NDC) and it is constantly enriched with new collections and functionalities, int.ert.gr reports. So far, the portal has collected more than 430,000 items from 67 collections provided by 53 institutions, including museums, archives, ephorias of antiquities, municipalities and cultural foundations. The goal of the portal is to ensure the sustainability and reusability of content produced by publicly funded digitization projects, its safe preservation and the free and open distribution of this heritage to its citizens, researchers and the educational community. Through SearchCulture.gr, the…
A handful of the world’s largest companies are opening tech-focused offices in Portugal, while the number of startups in the country continues to grow. Entrepreneurs and economists seem to believe this is a sign of things to come. Earlier this year, news broke that the American tech giant Google will open a technology center on the outskirts of Lisbon, in the city of Oeiras, creating around 500 jobs. Portugal’s economy minister said discussions on the new hub began last November at the annual Web Summit, one of the world’s largest technology conferences, in Lisbon. The founder of the Web Summit,…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled a scheduled meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, sparking a diplomatic row over the status of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures housed in the British Museum. Greece has repeatedly requested their permanent return to Athens, while the UK and the museum have refused to do so. Here’s what we know about the ongoing conflict that has sparked a social media storm in Greece: What was the dispute between the UK and Greece about at that time? According to reports, the decision to cancel the British prime minister’s meeting came after Mitsotakis told British broadcaster…
ContentsOriginsFrom the pagan temple to the Christian ChurchDome of the PantheonThe Pantheon todaySources The Pantheon is one of the best preserved monuments of ancient Rome. The structure, completed around 126-128 AD during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, features a rotunda with a massive domed ceiling that was the largest of its kind at the time of its construction. The Pantheon is located on the site of an earlier structure of the same name, built around 25 BC by the statesman Marcus Agrippa, and is believed to have been designed as a temple to the Roman gods.Due to the lack of…
In what is expected to be the first in a series of community conversations related to equity, the Greece Central School District hosted “The Origins of N-Words, Ownership and Impact of Language” Monday evening. It was held at the Olympia Auditorium.Tasha Potter is the principal on special assignment for equity and family engagement with the school district. She said that as a woman of color, she sees different perceptions of the N-word within the black community.“Some use it as a term of endearment, and others use it because they feel the word belongs to them,” Potter said. “And there’s a…