Tag Institute has launched worldwide a fund to offer grants of up to $5,000 for original research into social issues that incorporate Jewish social values.
Elections for the European Jewish Parliament, which will 'serve to bring together and coordinate voices of Jewish communities across continent', to be conducted via Internet.
The Ottoman Empire essentially gave birth to the Eastern Sephardic musical tradition — a richly seasoned stew of Iberian, Turkic, southern European, Mediterranean and Romani ingredients whose appeal extended beyond Europe to the New World.