ARTICLES
The following is a selection of articles regarding isolated Jewish communities published by Scattered Among the Nations leadership: Listen to an interview with Bryan Schwartz on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show, January 12, 2006. (download mp3)
"Lost Tribes: Can They Save the Jews?", (B'nai Brith Magazine, scheduled December 2005)
"Tefila Sunrise: the Jews of Venta Prieta," (Hadassah Magazine, Fall 2005)
"Strong Fiber on the Silk Road" (regarding the Jewish communities of Bukhara and Samarkand, Uzbekistan), (B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2005)
"In a Village Where Even the Barber Is Jewish, Everyone Prepares for Passover" (regarding the Jewish community of Krasnaya Sloboda, Azerbaijan), (B'nai Brith Magazine, Spring 2004)
"The Lost Tribe that Found Elijah: India's Bene Israel" (B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly, Summer 2003)
"Helping Inca Jews cross the Red Sea" (Ha'aretz, 8/16/02)
"The New (Jewish) Frontier: a community of Asian Jews is a distant
outpost
of Judaism," (Hadassah Magazine, Aug./Sept. 2002)
"A Shtetl on the Veld: The empire of Orthodox ostrich farmers in South
Africa," (Jerusalem Report, 5/20/02)
"Even with freedom of religion, Portugese Jews miss good old days,"
(JTA,
4/29/02)
"Moses' Cowboys Ride On: Argentina's Jewish gauchos are staying put,"
(Jerusalem Report, 4/8/02)
"Son of Holocaust survivors a real-life hero to Uzbek Jews" (JTA,
4/1/02)
"In Morocco´s mountains, elderly Jew watches the shrine of his holy
rebbe"
(JTA, 3/7/02)
"In an Azerbaijani village, a teen-ager leads the seder"
(JTA, 2/12/02)
"In Ukraine, Cross dressing, vodka and songs mark the story of
Esther" (JTA, 2/10/02)
"Down in the Jungle: a thriving community of Jewish traders in Brazil's
Amazon may soon disappear," (Jerusalem Report, 1/28/02)
"In Peru, descendants of Incas are trying to convert to Judaism"
(JTA, 1/31/02)
"Peruvian Jews given glimmer of hope to make Aliyah," (Jewish Bulletin
of Northern California, 10/26/01) There have also been articles about Scattered Among the Nations, its photo exhibits and its projects:
"Chronicling Jewish communities -- Local man's 'Jews of Color: In Color!' at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue" (Wahington Jewish Week, 9/21/05)
"Babel Judaica" (a profile on the Scattered Among the Nations organization and recent NYC exhibition), (Revista 18, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Summer 2003)
"Far-reaching Lens" (a profile of the 2005-2006 Scattered Among the Nations photo exhibit at the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City), (Jewish Forward, 11/14/05)
"Photo Exhibit Records Isolated Jewish Communities" (a profile of the author and 2003 NYC exhibition), (Houston Jewish Herald-Voice, Anniversary Edition, 4/17/03)
"Israeli rabbis convert dozens of 'Inca Jews'" (Jerusalem Report, 12/9/01)
