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The Daily Times
February 24, 2018
MADRID (AP) — A language still spoken by the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain 500 years ago is getting a helping hand from the Spanish Royal Academy to keep it alive. Ladino, a language taken abroad by Spanish Jews expelled from Spain in the late 15th century, uniquely preserves manyÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
February 23, 2018
Rabat – The 21st edition of the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF) will take place this year at the Center of Jewish History in New York from March 5-15. The NYSJFF explores the diverse experiences of Sephardic Jewish people, including those Spanish, Portuguese, North African andÃÂ ...
Forward
February 23, 2018
(JTA) — Nearly 1,800 descendants of Sephardic Jews acquired the Portuguese nationality in 2017 under a law enacted two years earlier, with another 12,000 still in the application process, officials in Lisbon said. The tally for last year is six times higher than the total for 2016, during which the application ofÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
February 22, 2018
During the entire month of February, Moriah is celebrating Sephardic Culture Month. Teachers around Moriah will infuse their lessons with Sephardic culture from around the world. The students will also enjoy an array of delicious Sephardic dishes courtesy of the school's talented kitchen staff. Beloved artÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
February 22, 2018
Two concerts, a cooking demonstration and a scholar in residence highlight the upcoming Sephardic Festival taking place from March 4-17 at B'nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton . Also in early March will be two Jewish-themed plays being performed in South Florida. "Kindertransport" is being shownÃÂ ...
Jweekly.com
February 13, 2018
“This is a dialogue of the Sephardic Jews — many say nearly half a million — when they were expelled from Spain,” the rabbi explained. Describing the event as a holocaust, Benzaquen said that the Sephardim wrote about their experiences in these simple songs. “They were expressing themselves deeplyÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
February 7, 2018
The American Sephardi Federation's NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival showcases contemporary voices steeped in the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities. The ten-day Festival features premiere film screenings, intriguing stories, evocative documentaries, Q&As with filmmakers,ÃÂ ...
Asbury Park Press
February 2, 2018
See the above video footage of dolphin sightings at Allenhurst. ALLENHURST - Swift action by a federal district court has cleared the way for a Sephardic Jewish congregation to build a synagogue in the borough. Ohel Yis'hak Sephardic Synagogue of Allenhurst and Rabbi Moshe Shamah filed a complaintÃÂ ...
Jewschool
February 2, 2018
My grandfather was born there and I always heard stories about Monastir (now known as Bitola), the city where he grew up. Until World War II, Monastir had a vibrant, proud Sephardic community that maintained the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language and culture their ancestors brought to the Balkans afterÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 25, 2018
Rav Ovadia Yosef made an effort to educate and encourage Sephardic Jews to recite Amen after the brachot for the haftarah. Chacham Ovadia has been successful in changing the practice amongst many Sephardim. At Shaarei Orah, I have repeated this ruling of Chacham Ovadia a number of times.
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 25, 2018
When Gil Hovav's colorful relatives weren't bickering, or playing tricks on each other, they were showering each other with love. And sometimes that called for extreme measures, like when Uncle Ami, an IDF officer, made a little detour in a Piper airplane, close enough to the ground to throw sweets to hisÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 25, 2018
Bracha Jachter, daughter of Rabbi Haim and Malca Jachter of Teaneck, New Jersey, married Yisroel Perton, son of Rabbi Baruch and Raizie Perton of Montreal, Quebec, on January 11, 2018, at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck, New Jersey. The kallah's parents are the rabbi and rabbanit ofÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 25, 2018
... Sephardic centers of world Jewry—with Ashkenazi Jews often traveling and settling in “Sephardic countries” and Sephardic Jews immigrating to “Ashkenazi countries.” What is certain is that Sephardim and Ashkenazim did not develop independent of each other as two organic blocs of Jewish civilization.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
January 24, 2018
In addition, chapters include research on the term Sephardic Jew, Genealogy in the Torah and Sephardic Naming Practices. In the chapter on Brooklyn's Syrian Jewish Community, Roffe writes the 100-year history of the borough's community, discussing the sociological impact of careers, philanthropy,ÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 18, 2018
In certain segments of the Ashkenazic Orthodox community it is common practice to stand for Kriat HaTorah. This is a result, in part, of the influence of Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein who were enthusiastic about the practice to stand during Kriat HaTorah. They often stressed thatÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
January 17, 2018
Author Nina Lichtenstein's blond hair is pulled back into a bun and she's dressed head to toe in black, which makes her already fair skin appear even paler. She's standing on the small stage at The Braid Theatre in Santa Monica, speaking to a small but rapt audience about her latest book, “SephardicÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 11, 2018
In the beginning of 2017, Moriah parents Daniel and Lindsay Setton approached the Moriah leadership about creating a center for Sephardic culture within the school. Less than one year later, Midrash Doresh Tov now stands as a permanent and beautiful space for all students, regardless of background,ÃÂ ...
The Real Deal Magazine
January 9, 2018
The Sephardic Academy of Manhattan bought a six-story building on the Upper East Side for $14 million to expand its program — with a helping hand from some familiar figures in New York real estate. Daniel Levy, a partner at Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, is on the school's board and wasÃÂ ...
Las Cruces Sun-News
January 8, 2018
LAS CRUCES - Renowned singer/performer Robyn Helzner will perform "A Key to the Casa: Celebrating Jewish Life in Shepardic Spain," at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19 at Temple Beth-El, 3980 Sonoma Springs Ave. Through entrancing Ladino (Hispanic Jewish) songs, stories and images, Helzner transportsÃÂ ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
January 7, 2018
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in his weekly address that he is opposed to a bill that would allow the death penalty for terrorists. Yosef said he was concerned about a Jewish terrorist receiving a death sentence, and referred specifically to the Jewish extremists whoÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
December 31, 1999
What a beautiful gift! We at Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, were privileged to receive a gift of both Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam's tefillin by Dr. Shlomo Amar. The dilemma I faced was whether I should don this pair of Rabbeinu Tam's tefillin every day after Shacharit,ÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
Although I'm an only child, I was compensated for this unfortunate circumstance in the form of cousins whom I regard as brothers and sisters. The dynamics of a relationship with a cousin can be an extraordinary thing. You have enough diluted shared DNA to recognize a family resemblance, but you don'tÃÂ ...
Psuvanguard.com
December 31, 1999
Artichoke Music Presents: An evening of Sephardic Soul and Balkan Folk Dance! Journey through exotic lands with this fiddle-driven caravan of Balkan, Klezmer, Sephardic & original soul music. After our sold-out appearance at Artichoke Music, Michelle Alany and the Mystics and Trio Tsuica return to a bigger space so youÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
December 8, 2017
The Ladino language has a Spanish sentence structure, and contains vocabulary borrowed from Turkish, Greek and Arabic. It is the mother tongue of Sephardic Jews, who were forced to emigrate from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and settled in the Ottoman Empire. Today it is dying. A recent documentaryÃÂ ...
Forward
November 23, 2017
In Tunis, the community of Italian-Jewish migrants (mainly Sephardim from the city of Livorno) lived separately from the indigenous Jewish community until 1944 and accounted for only ten percent of the city's Jewish population. But that is the extent of the Jews who can reasonably claim to be Sephardic.
Jewish Link of New Jersey
November 22, 2017
Thus, the Ashkenazic family may enjoy, without reservations, the food cooked in a home of a Sephardic Jew, even if the Sephardim follow a more lenient approach than the protocols accepted by Ashkenazim. By Rabbi Haim Jachter. Rabbi Haim Jachter is the spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarei Orah,ÃÂ ...
Davis Enterprise
November 14, 2017
The celebration of the Sephardim at Bet Haverim will begin at 8 p.m. Friday with Shabbat (Sabbath) services in the sanctuary, highlighted by Sephardic-themed liturgical music. Vocals will be led by Davis-based Student Cantor Shayndel Adler-Eldridge and Cantor Ben Rosner, who serves the Mosaic LawÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 31, 1999
From “Hazana” a new book on Jewish vegetarian cooking by Paolo Gavin, comes a savory Turkish herb-and cheese turnover. Ms. Gavin writes that the Turkish Jewish kitchen had strong Sephardic and Ottoman influences and featured many savory pastries “filled with spinach, Swiss chard, eggplant, potatoÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
December 31, 1999
One night, a Sephardic friend from California came back to the dormitory with an important piece of information he had somehow picked up. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013, the highly-revered former Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel) was a bit under the weather, and his doctors told him to stay home andÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, visited Los Angeles from Nov. 21-26 and met with many community members and leaders, including former L.A. mayor and current gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa. During a meeting in the rabbi's hotel room, Villaraigosa, who is running in the 2018ÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
December 31, 1999
An Ashkenazic woman called me recently asking why her recent Sephardic guest requested that her family be served water challot and not egg challah for the Shabbat meal. I told her that Chacham Ovadia Yosef instructs Sephardim to follow the ruling of Maran the Beit Yosef to recite Borei Minei MezonotÃÂ ...
Cleveland Jewish News
September 28, 2017
He has also worked closely on the company's “Sephardic Journey,” a program that interweaves Sephardic folk song with chanting and theÃÂ ...
Forward
September 27, 2017
About 8,800 persons have applied for Portuguese citizenship since the start of a program that enables Sephardim from other countries who canÃÂ ...
theberkshireedge.com
September 17, 2017
The bourthetto, a Sephardic-Greek fish in spicy sauce, is brought to the ... Greece was the destination for many Sephardim in this mass exodus.
Tablet Magazine
September 17, 2017
Ottoman cities, particularly the larger ones, were arenas of diverse religious and cultural encounters. As mentioned before the intimateÃÂ ...
Red River Radio
September 16, 2017
This musical journey interweaves Sephardic folk song with the Monteverdi-like Hebrew choral work of Salamone Rossi – the Songs of Solomon. The dailyÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
September 14, 2017
Rav Yosef presents a list of Sephardic “all-stars” who uphold the ruling ... Sephardim and Yemenites should unquestionably follow the ruling ofÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
September 7, 2017
The Sephardic Selichot differ significantly from the Ashkenazic ... At the end of the list, Sephardim state “D'anei l'Choni aneinan,” You WhoÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
August 31, 2017
At Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, we are eager to grow and improve. When Rav Amar visited our kehillaÃÂ ...
NY Blueprint
August 23, 2017
$20 of the $40 ticket is a tax-deductible donation to further ASF's mission to preserve and promote the rich mosaic culture of Greater SephardicÃÂ ...
Forward
August 20, 2017
(JTA) — A century ago, on Aug. 18, 1917, a massive fire roared through the Mediterranean port city of Salonica, Greece, then home to theÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
August 17, 2017
A leading American Sephardic rav had told me that the only crucial ... of the term mi'd'Oraita in the ketuba, the Sephardim Rishonim such as theÃÂ ...
MyNorthwest.com
August 3, 2017
Sephardic Bikur Holim congregation members Regina Barkey Amira and Al Cordova, holding a tray of pastelles. (Photo by Rachel Belle).
The Week Magazine
December 31, 1999
After being expelled during the Inquisition, the Sephardim settled ... Conversely, the Sephardic diet was one of warmth and abundance and,ÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
December 31, 1999
Expelled from Spain in 1492 during the Inquisition, Sephardic Jews came ... Other Ladino-speaking Sephardim from Marmaris (a small coastalÃÂ ...
Virgin Islands Daily News
March 24, 2017
It is widely written but seldom discussed in academic and other settings that the Dutch (mainly those from Amsterdam and particularly the Sephardim Dutch Jews) were among some of the earliest Europeans who came to the Caribbean as captains of ships,ÃÂ ...
Bedford + Bowery
March 24, 2017
Aside from coughing up the recipes for these dishes, the book tells the story of owners Maya and Dean Jankelowitz, who based their menu on the Jewish cooking of their Ashkenazi and Sephardic grandparents; their experiences growing up in Israel andÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
March 24, 2017
Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, joined with other local congregations hosting one of the musmachim and hearing their divrei Torah.
Forward
March 24, 2017
"We suggested to start with a period of courtship, which means a beginning through consular relations, so that later it will become a marriage, which would be Israel's own embassy again in Venezuela, as we have always had here," Venezuela's SephardicÃÂ ...
Forward
March 22, 2017
If there is a consensus, it's that Israeli food is an amalgam of the 100-plus cultures that make up the state: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Arab, of course, but also others including Persian, Italian, French and Russian. Clearly, it is far more than ...
