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Hello!
My name is Shelomo Alfassa, I am glad you stopped
by my home on the Internet. I am a passionate lover
of Judaism and Jewish history. I live in the great
Jewish community of Brooklyn, New York. Other than
being a writer, author, editor, historian of the Jewish
world, I spend my full time energy on the legal cause
that seeks legal rights for the up to one million
Jews that have been displaced from Arab countries.
My interests include general world history, geography,
politics, science and the humanities. I have done
a lot of work to combat Christian missionaries in
the Jewish and specifically the Sephardic world. I
have been on the Internet since 1995.
Shelomo Alfassa is the founder and former
Executive Director of the International Sephardic
Leadership Council and the editor of the award
winning International Sephardic Journal. Well
known as an international advocate for Sephardic
Jewry, Mr. Alfassa served as former Director
of Research and Development for Sephardic
House at the Center for Jewish History and
as a consultant to the American Sephardi Federation.
For four years he served as a vice-president
of the New York based Foundation for the Advancement
of Sephardic Studies and Culture. He was a
staff consultant to both the Sephardic Educational
Center and the Shehebar Sephardic Center (Midrash
Sefaradi) in Jerusalem.
In 2003, Mr. Alfassa traveled
to Poland representing Sephardic Jews in the
United States as part of Judéo-Espagnol
A Auschwitz, a successful multi-national campaign
that sought recognition for Sephardic Holocaust
victims that perished at Auschwitz. In 2005,
he successfully worked with the U.S. Congress
to bring about greater representation for
Sephardic victims of the Holocaust in the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Mr. Alfassa's articles and papers on Jewish
history and politics have appeared in numerous
media outlets; his books include Ethnic
Sephardic Jews in the Medical Literature,
Reference
Guide to the Nazis and Arabs During the Holocaust
and A
Window Into Old Jerusalem. He is currently
the U.S. Director for the 'International Rights
and Redress Campaign' that seeks justice,
rights and redress for Jews displaced from
Arab countries.
Mr.
Alfassa's family is from the Ottoman island
of Rhodes and Ottoman Edirne, Turkey.
Mr.
Alfassa served in the United States Public Health
Service where he was an executive officer on
a national terrorism response team. This team
specialized in medical de-contamination and
treatment for mass casualty incidents involving
chemical and/or biological weapons. Mr. Alfassa
was deployed to several national incidents around
the United States during his tenure and trained
with the U.S. Marine Corps Chemical Biological
Incident Response Force and the U.S. Army Explosive
Ordinance Disposal teams. Mr. Alfassa is a certified
hazardous materials incident commander and medic
(certified for 20 years), and is a noted educator
on the effects of chemical and biological weapons
on the body.
Please email at the following address:
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