28 July 2013
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) A group of 15 Portuguese language teachers in the United States has completed an intensive professional development program at the University of the Azores, in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel island. Participants included teachers from California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In its second edition, the program was […]
Posted in Azores, Brazil, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Miguel, Scholarships, Travel, World
28 July 2013
The Isaac Cardoso Center, the first Jewish cultural and religious center in Portugal, was inaugurated in the city of Trancoso last week after Jews were expelled from Portugal 500 years ago. The new complex, which houses the new synagogue called Beit Mayim Hayim [House of Living Waters], was co-sponsored by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel and […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, Travel
27 July 2013
President Barack Obama has nominated Boston attorney Robert Sherman Ambassador to Portugal. Sherman, who helped found the Boston office of mega-law firm Greenberg Traurig, has contributed with more than $2 million in donations in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Sherman replaces Ambassador Allan Katz nominated by President Obama in November 2009. The nomination […]
25 July 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Economic chaos, political scandals, social violence, revolutions and wars punctuated by natural disasters sparked by extreme weather conditions dominate the headlines across the world in the second decade of the 21st century. So what’s new? We tend to think we live in unique times, but the world has seen it […]
24 July 2013
The United States House of Representatives passed unanimously yesterday, Tuesday, July 23rd , an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that prohibits the US Air Force from reducing the force structure at Lajes Field in Fiscal Year 2014. Last year, the United States had informed the Portuguese government that the future of the Lajes Air […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira
23 July 2013
The President of Portugal, Anibal Cavaco Silva, has appointed Rui Machete, 73, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rui Machete, the former President of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), is a senior leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD). He had served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense before being appointed Deputy Prime Minister […]
