No.13, Summer 2001
CONTENTS Mordechay Ben-Porat: From the Chairman Pnina Shaham: Educational Department For his Life's Work Ayala Shashoua-Miron: Carrying the Ladder Sideways M. Ben-Porat Boulevard Yehuda Sayig: A Festive for the Fiftieth Jubilee of Aliah JEWS OF IRAQ IN RECENT GENERATION Internet Visitors' Comments Dr. Zvi Yehuda: Public Activities of R.Y. Hayyim EVENTS AT THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Prof. Yitzhak Avishur: Synagogues in Babylon Dr.Zvi Yehuda: Ottoman Period Documentation Arie Elias: The Jewish Theater in Baghdad Rachel Silko: Babylonian and Kurdistan Jews IRAQI JEWS IN THE DIASPORA 90 Years After the Demise of R.Y. Hayyim Mordechay Ben-Porat: Impression of a Visit to the U.S.A Readers Letters The American Friends of the BJHC IN MEMORIAM EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM Dr. Abraham Katan by Prof. Lev Hakak Orly Bahar: Objects Donated in 1999 Aharon Aharon by Alfred Gabbai EVENTS AT THE CENTER Edward Chitayat by Mordechay Ben-Porat Yigal Loushi: Review of Events Eliahu Hillel by Shlomo Hillel Yigal Loushi: The Annual Gala Naji Elias by Mordechay Ben-Porat Ayelet Shushan: A Dream Come True