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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The rocky seats of a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi are seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A narrow and steep staircase leeds to a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The tower of Palazzo Marchesi, where a a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - was found below the courtyard, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Young jewish man flirting with a girl attending the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0990.jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Young jewish man flirting with a girl attending the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0988.jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Young jewish man flirting with a girl attending the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0987.jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Young jewish man flirting with a girl attending the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0985.jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Jewish single man waiting the beginning of the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0754.jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Jewish single men waiting the beginning of the  party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0737.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The entrance to a a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - was found here below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Young Jewish people conversating at the bar. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
<br />
Reporter: Bleyer,Jennifer: 917-279-2078<br />
email: bleyer@nytimes.com<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_5D_20080322_MG_0791.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A funeral home is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - pose for a portrait in Mrs Aouate's elegant apartment, which became a point of reference for the Jewish community during the holidays, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A chair repair shop is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident steps outside from the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident visits for the first time the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate, Maria Antonietta Ancona and Luciana Pepi - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - visit the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Maria Antonietta Ancona, a retired anesthetist who goes by her Jewish name Miriam, opens the cast iron gate at the entrance of the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
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    Needy_026.jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. The view of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, from Faina Ryzhikova's apartment. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Needy_024.jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. A picture of Vladimir Ryzhikova, Faina Ryzhikova's deceased husband, hangs here in her apartment. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Needy_017.jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Needy_015.jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Needy_014.jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, walks towards her apartment on the right, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in front of the building where she lives, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Entrance of the Havana Central Club. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). On the left Arielle Zand (25) conversating with Scott Chait (29), both living in the Upper West Side. On the right is Izzy Root (35), single man from Long Island. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Jacob, a young jeaish man, dressed as Jesus Christ. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Young orthodox jewish boy at the wedding of Zvi Tauber, nephew of Gran Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, taking place at the shul (synagogue) of the Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov. Behind him, men and women are seperated by dividers called mechitzah. According to Jewish Law, men and women must be separated during prayer, usually by a wall or curtain called a mechitzah or by placing women in a second floor balcony. This allows men to concentrate on prayers and God, without being distracted by the presence of women. Gianni Cipriano, cell +1 646 465 2168 (USA), +39 328 567 7923 (Italy), gianni@giannicipriano.com , www.giannicipriano.com
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A street food stand is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A funeral home is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - pose for a portrait in Mrs Aouate's elegant apartment, which became a point of reference for the Jewish community during the holidays, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Evelyn Aouate, an Algerian-born, Parisian-raised transplant whose deepening exploration of her own Jewish roots drove her and others open a synagogue, walks in Piazza Marina, where death sentenced occured during the Inquisition, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A narrow passage is seen here in the  Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate, Luciana Pepi and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - step outside from the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident visits for the first time the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Maria Antonietta Ancona, a retired anesthetist who goes by her Jewish name Miriam, uses an oversized key to open the tall paneled wood door of the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, looks at pictures of her deceased husband and his grave, in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Family pictures Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, are here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. Pictures include Faina herself, and her grandchildren. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. The hands of Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, who is here in front of the building where she lives, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Exterior of the building in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY, where Faina El'man Ryzhikova lives. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, is a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
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Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Girls in the background dancing on the tables. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Mali Agami, from Croen Heights, and her friend Tzvib conversating at the party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Mali Agami, a woman from Crown Heights, Brooklyn at the party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Seth Galena (right( with his wife Hindy Poupko (center) and his mother Rita (left) at the entrance of the party before its start. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Seth Galena and his wife Hindy Poupko, who live in the upper west side, photographed by Seth's mother, Rita. Party organized by twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, from bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • March 22nd 2008. Havana Central, New York, NY. Jewish Costume Purim Party at Havana Central at the West End, 2991 Broadway (113th street). Rita Galena, mother of twin brothers Seth and Isaac Galena, before the beginning of the party. The Galena brothers organized the costume party and are the authors of bangitout.com, a jewish humour website.<br />
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  • Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Synagogue of the Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov. Jewish men sing to celebrate the wedding of Zvi Tauber, nephew of Gran Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, referred as "Bobov 48". On Shabbat, Jewish holidays or other festive occasions cylindrical fur hats called "shtreimel" are worn by married men, while beaver hats (though made of rabbit) are worn by unmarried men. Thousands of people, part of this community, were invited to celebrate the public wedding.  Gianni Cipriano, cell +1 646 465 2168 (USA), +39 328 567 7923 (Italy), gianni@giannicipriano.com , www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. An American flag and a portrait of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson are here in Faina Ryzhikova's apartment. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
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Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Exterior of the building in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY, where Faina El'man Ryzhikova lives. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, is a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
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  • 27 October, 2008. New York. Faina El'man Ryzhikova, 82, a Jewish holocaust survivor and guerilla fighter, is here in her apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY. After asking for help, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst assisted her by tapping The New York Times Needieset funds for utility expenses of $50/month for 6 months, the first grant starting on October 3, 2008.<br />
<br />
Faina Ryzhikova was born in 1926 in Radoshkovichi, a little village 22 miles northwest from Minsk, Belarus. Back in 1939, this territory belonged to Poland. When the Germans occupied Radoshkovichi, in 1941, they created a ghetto, where Faina and her family lived and worked. In order to escape a planned pogrom by the Germans in 1942, Faina escaped into the forest where she later met the partisans of the brigade “Narodnie Mstiteli” (Avengers of the people), which she joined.<br />
<br />
Faina's mother and sisters were killed while trying to escape. Her father survived and joined aina in 1943. Of the 2000 people that lived in the Radoshkovichi ghetto, only 18 survived. She married Vladimir Ryzhikov in 1954 and raised two sons. Faina's husband passed away in 1991, before the family came to the United States.<br />
<br />
<br />
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  • Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Young jewish men performing hora, a circle dance around the groom, at the Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva on 48th street between 15th and 16th ave. The groom is Zvi Tauber, nephew of Ben Zion Halberstam, Gran Rabbi of the Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov, referred as "Bobov 48". Thousands of people, part of this community, were invited to celebrate the public wedding. Gianni Cipriano, cell +1 646 465 2168 (USA), +39 328 567 7923 (Italy), gianni@giannicipriano.com , www.giannicipriano.com
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  • Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Young Jewish orthodox men crossing the street to go to attend Zvi Tauber's wedding. Zvi Tauber is Gran Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam's nephew. Thousands of people, part of this community, were invited to celebrate the public wedding. Gianni Cipriano, cell +1 646 465 2168 (USA), +39 328 567 7923 (Italy), gianni@giannicipriano.com , www.giannicipriano.com
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A trilingual – in Italian, Hebrew and Arab - street sign for Piazza SS. 40 Martiri (the Holy 40 Martyrs)  was put up as marker in the area in a nod to the city’s rich past in an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A centenary ficus, whose hanging roots are said to be tears of the tree crying for the executions that took place here during the Inquisition, is seen here in Piazza Marina, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A view of Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri – today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Coppersmith Nicola La Barbera poses for a portrait in front his workshop in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmith workshop is seen here in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmith workshop is seen here in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A trilingual – in Italian, Hebrew and Arab - street sign for Via Meschita (the Arab word for both synagogues and churches)  was put up as marker in the area in a nod to the city’s rich past in an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Local residents shops in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever,  in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Local residents shops in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever,  in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A street view of Vicolo Meschita - part of an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue - where the new synagogue will be housed in a former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, an unusual name for a church in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Meschita is the Arab word for both synagogues and churches.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A marble slab, shown here in the church of San Nicola da Tolentino, documents the presents of a synagogue in the site where the church was later built, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A historical map of Palermo (the Giudecca, Palermo's ancient quarter, is bottom right quarter) is shown here in the Muncipal Archive of in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Maria Antonietta Ancona, Evelyne Aouate, Eliana Calandra and Luciana Pepi, who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo, pose for a portrait in the Municipal Archive of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in the living room of his Westmont building apartment, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox018.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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