12 October 2012
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, appointed Friday, Joana Marques Vidal, first Portuguese female Attorney General (PGR). Under Portugal’s Constitution, the President appoints the Attorney-General “at the counsel of the government.” Vidal will head the public prosecutor’s office, replacing Fernando Pinto Monteiro whose six year term ended October 9. Currently, she was the legal […]
12 October 2012
The Congregation Beth David, of Saratoga (CA), will honor Righteous Gentile, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, on October 14, beginning at 1:00pm. Sousa Mendes was Portuguese Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, during the Second World War, who, in June of 1940, issued Portuguese visas of safe conduct to over 30,000 at-risk refugees, including an estimated 10,000 […]
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11 October 2012
Food cooked in a volcanic geyser, fish from the deep Atlantic and sweet bread, these are just a few of the delights that award-winning chef Ming Tsai explores during a trip overseas to the Azores, part of the special programming events planned to help celebrate the television milestone of his 10th Anniversary Season. Affiliated with […]
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09 October 2012
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), of Massachusetts, is hosting an exhibition of 15th century Portuguese tapestries titled, The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, on view from October 27 to December 31, 2012. The exhibit is open Tuesday-Sunday and holiday Mondays, 10 am-5 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Monumental […]
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06 October 2012
The film, Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story, will inaugurate the Mayim Jewish Film Series of the JCC on the Hudson White Plains (NY), on October 10, at 7:30pm, whose theme this year is tales of Holocaust rescue. The film, directed by Joel Santoni and starring Bernard Lecoq as Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will be introduced by […]
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28 September 2012
By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca’s distinctly feminine symbology was recognized in the 1940s by the Portuguese poet and critic, Jorge de Sena.This symbology in part accounts for the scant recognition that Espanca received during her lifetime as a figure in Portuguese letters. As de Sena (1959) recognized, Espanca’s poetry was alien to the […]
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