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This year's Yom Kippur celebration in Ioannina brought together more than 250 people from Israel, America, France, England, Athens and Thessaloniki, who responded to the call of our Community and arrived by all means in our city to celebrate with us the greatest holiday of Judaism, to enjoy the genuine Romaniote melodies and to experience the unique emotions felt by anyone who observes Yom Kippur in our historic Synagogue.
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The offices of the Israeli Community of Ioannina were attacked with red paint on the afternoon of Sunday, June 22.6.2025, XNUMX. The attack occurred during the march organized by the KKE after the American attack on Iran's nuclear plants, which started from the Workers' Center, which is located a short distance from the Community's offices.
With the actions of the I.K. of Ioannina, the building was immediately cleaned.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT: The I.K. of Ioannina issued a relevant announcement HERE in which, among other things, it emphasizes: "The Community does not participate in politics and its point of reference is the religious identity of its members only. Any targeting, therefore, of our Community and its members is based only on anti-Semitic motives and contradicts the historical memory of the city.
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The screening of the documentary entitled "Lost Yannina", directed by Nikos Chryssikakis with the scientific supervision of Assoc. Professor of Museology Esther Solomon, took place on 25.3.2025 at the General State Archives - Historical Museum Archive of Epirus, on March 25, the day on which 81 years have passed since the day the German Nazis gathered the approximately 1.870 Jews of Yannina, whom they then led to the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. The event was organized by the Municipality of Ioannina, the I.K. of Ioannina and the Art History Laboratory of the University of Ioannina.
More: SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY "LOST YANNINA" IN IOANNINA
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A small street in the Castle of Ioannina bears the name of a great citizen of Ioannina... It bears the name of the man, the doctor, the scientist, the Mayor... Moses Elisaf! This is Ioustinianou Street, where the Synagogue is located, which -two years after his death- was renamed Moses Elisaf Street, by decision of the Municipality.
More: MOSES ELISAF STREET IN IANNENA. A small street for a man with a great contribution
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The president of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, paid tribute to the late Moses Elisaf (26.4.2023) before leaving Ioannina where he was in the context of his pre-election campaign.
On his visit to the last residence of the Mayor of Ioanniton, he was accompanied by the widow of Moses Elisaf, Cleopatra Hatzigianni-Elisaf.
It is recalled that Moses Elisaf passed away on February 17, being the acting Mayor of Ioannitas and at the same time the only Jewish Mayor in Europe.
SOURCE: THE STEP, 26.4.2023