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Aslı Omur
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Journalist ✍🏻 Observe, listen, read, write🏺Obsesses over international affairs, ancient ruins & history. Burns through shoes. Fluent in curiosity, sarcasm & diplomacy (sometimes all at once) | Books in every room | Τρίκαλα ♾️ | ✡︎ חי
Wrap up your Friday with us at Grounded Perspectives. What a week it's been. ☕️

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#Substack #USJobsReport #Money #Ukraine #Trump #Russia #Putin #Turkey #Türkiye #ShadowFleet #EU #NavalHistory #SeaBaby #War
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“This week's Zemirot is the rendition Hag HaMaccabeam, a unique Turkish Hanukkah song composed by Rabbi Haim Bejerano, who served the Sephardic communities of Bulgaria, Romania, and was the Chief Rab and was the Chief Rabbi of Turkey in the last years of his life […]”

zemirot.org/song/%d7%97%...
December 31, 2024 at 8:32 PM
December 31, 2024 at 12:58 AM
#KidLit #JewishLit #KidsFiction rec of the day — “Simon & the Bear” by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrations by Matthew Trueman

Big themes, many miracles. Latkes and loss. Delightfully warm, emotional and thoughtful. Endearing illustrations.

#HanukkahReads 🕎 📚 #KidsBooks #ChildrensBooks #BookRecs #Judah
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Garbage Human is a Twitter account sharing crazy stuff they find, like this. The girl with red nails posted on TikTok.
December 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM
December 2, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Sara Fortis (aka Καπετένισσα Σαρίκα) was an #Andarte — a #Greek Resistance fighter from #Chalkis during #WWII.

#Andartiko were arrested by new gov after the war. Her reputation led to her release. She made aliyah to #Israel and remains there today.

🕯️ #NerTamid {poster art by EmilyKShop on Etsy}
November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
"A Jewish woman of Gibraltar, in a fiesta dress, before departure to Constantinople."

Lithograph by Frederick Lewis, "Sketches of Spain and Spanish Characters"

#Sephardic #Sefardim #SpanishJews
November 20, 2024 at 1:40 PM