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Rebbetzin Dr. Michelle Sarna: Jewish Life in the UAE


By Pearl Markovitz | January 21, 2021
The sisterhood of Congregation Beth Aaron, headed by Debbie Sheffey and Gabriellle Silverberg, invited Dr. Michelle Sarna, wife of the UAE Chief Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, to address the community on Zoom this past Sunday evening, January 16. A large group of participants took advantage of this opportunity to hear what is actually happening on the ground across the world with Jewish residents in a Muslim country.
The Jewish presence in the UAE began long before the Abraham Accords were signed. In the 1970s, after the fortuitous discovery of an oil resource yielding enormous revenue, the leaders of the UAE, encompassing seven Gulf States, decided to establish a university to serve as a global educational center on equal footing with Cambridge and Oxford. Ten years ago, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, executive director of the Bronfman Center at NYU, chaplain and professor at the Wagner School of Public Policy, together with his colleague an ....

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'Amen - Amen - Amen': New documentary tells the story of the UAE's first Jewish community


Amen-Amen-Amen.
The trailer for the film was released this week and outlines the story of the first Jewish congregation in the UAE, which, in 2018, created a Torah scroll in honour of
Sheikh Zayed, the Founding Father. In November 2019, the scroll was presented in a ceremony to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, by the community’s rabbi and other members.
Amen-Amen-Amen – its title derived from the holy word present in Arabic, Hebrew and English – traces the journey leading up to that moment, from the writing of the scroll in Israel to the making of the Torah’s golden case in Brooklyn, New York. ....

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