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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.

My professional bio:

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.



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'A Window Into Old Jerusalem'
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