Jewish Greece: Storied Past, Vibrant Future

Meet the Jews of Athens and Thessaloniki, and learn how JDC powers Greece's Jewish community to tackle the challenges of their country's financial crisis and more.
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For more than 100 years, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has been saving Jewish lives, building Jewish life, and transforming Jewish values into action that benefits all people in need. As the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian aid group, JDC today works in more than 70 countries and in Israel to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create lasting connections to Jewish life, and provide disaster relief and development support for victims of natural and man-made disasters.
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[@drjimmy3870]

We Greeks love so much our Jews brothers !! God bless Greece, God bless Israel !!

[@vanessabalkan3416]

gi auto to thema kanete isvolh sta spitia tous kai otan girisane den ta vrikane oute ta spitia oute katasthmata kaı ta alla ktl. pou einai nekrotafeio, ti kanete kai ti xtistikate ekei. e tote den einai alithinh agaph......palavra

[@tagbarzeev4850]

My wife is Sephardic her grandparents came from Kastoria,Greece.Several of her aunts and uncles were from Greece and spoke ladino.

[@paulkenneally789]

On my first visit to Greece,1991, I went to the Jewish museum in Athens,introduced me to more Jewish culture than I normally see. May l recommend a book Salonica..city of ghosts, by Mark Mazower,useful account of a lost Jewish community. If you’re in the Balkans, please visit the Jewish museum of Berat,Albania,it’s in danger of closure.

[@jeremyhaines4481]

shalom and 💘 love to Jewish community of Greece xXxX

[@user-yz8pw9dv2n]

G-d bless the JDC for ever more !

[@vanessabalkan3416]

familias separadas y países divididos. ¡Mucho amor desde Estambul!

[@loverofhistory.5826]

Im greece was first jewish diaspora in europe. And from greece they moved to other countries in europe. Mostlly itally and from italy to spain,siwtzerland,germany,uk,scandinavia... Thats why modern european jews are geneticlly close to italian and greeks and original israelites.

[@aliceinwonderland610]

It goes farther than that Japheth

[@eliakimjosephsophia4542]

Love to Greece

[@Athenian888]

Lots of love and kisses to Israel! :)

[@tipesreee]

God bless you.

[@danielleporter1829]

Queen Elizabeth's husband, PrincePhilip( who was born a prince of Greece🇬🇷 and Denmark🇩🇰), his mother sheltered family friends during the occupation of Athens. In 1994, Prince Philip accompanied his mother's remains as they were reinterred on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, his mother , Princess Alice of Battenburg was interned on the Mount where it's believed the first temple stood as a Righteous Gentile among the Jews. On their recent 2017 and 2018 visits, Both Princes Charles and William visited their grandmother and great grandmother's final resting place. Previously Princess Alice had been interred at the Royal mausoleum at Frogmore near Windsor Castle.

[@siobhanstrauss8492]

There was me thinking I can’t be Jewish on my mums side.

[@malatyali5898]

Ss far as i remember when greeks took control of selanik they flow to edirne. But forgivenes is important

[@thirraschonnovik9032]

A lot of Jewish came from Spain to Greece but they are not really Greek

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

and many greeks are originally syriacs,phenicians,helllenised romans and slavs and avars or bulgars...so? thessaloniki jews lived in greece for hundreds of years(and most of them were actually roamniote jews who accepted the ladino culture ,not originally migrants from spain)

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

@Betty damota romaniote jews were present in greece snd the balkans since the byzanth day,i am sure you have proof you are greek even longer ...

[@thirraschonnovik9032]

But they are a lot people they are no Greek I know

[@1985LISS]

common era, God forbid they say BC

[@big1boston]

Losing the narrative.

[@jjbv2147]

Rome is older.

[@paulkenneally789]

So what,Stonehenge is older and?

[@elevateyoursoul1020]

😂