Jewish matchmaking service to pair up singles moving to the UAE – The National
admin | November 4, 2021
A Jewish dating website has launched in the UAE to pair up single people looking to make the emirates their long-term home.
Sephardic New Yorkers say Spain is breaking promise of citizenship – The Jerusalem Post
admin | October 18, 2021
After Spain announced it would offer of citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York City, filled out an application. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tafoya calls himself a proud Sephardic Jew rediscovering my roots.
Jrgen brings Passover to the Great British Baking Show with charoset-and-matzah-topped pavlova – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
admin | October 18, 2021
This story contains spoilers about Episode 4 in Season 9 of Netflixs The Great British Baking Show. (JTA) Jrgen Krauss, the basically a Jewish dad on the latest season of The Great British Baking Show, lived up to his reputation during Desserts Week when he produced a Passover-inspired pavlova complete with a traditional charoset topping. The dessert also sustains a different tradition: the internationally popular shows habit of not getting Jewish content quite right, when host Noel Fielding badly mispronounces charoset while describing Krauss creation
Spain seeking descendants of those saved by the ‘Spanish Schindler’ – thejewishchronicle.net
admin | October 11, 2021
MADRID (JTA) In an unprecedented effort to find their relatives and raise awareness about their stories, Spanish authorities are releasing a list of the Hungarian Jews protected from the Nazis by a diplomat nicknamed the Spanish Schindler. ngel Sanz Briz was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial and museum, in 1966 for using an ingenious legal maneuver to save more than 5,200 Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. But even though his efforts saved five times as many Jews as those of Oskar Schindler, his story is far less well known in part because the staunchly anti-Israel Franco regime, which ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975, barred him from accepting Yad Vashems honor.
A travel experience to Poland is what you make of it – The Jerusalem Post
admin | October 11, 2021
Even before the two of us set off on our latest trip to Poland, we discussed how we would portray our visit in our Travel Edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. Our biweekly show is usually fun-filled, so the thought of portraying Jewish history both glorious and tragic in our broadcast was somewhat daunting. Our destination: southeastern Poland, close to the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine.
The leader of the PP of Spain, in an act with Felipe Caldern: We do not have to apologize, Hispani… – Market Research Telecast
admin | October 2, 2021
Pablo Casado, leader of the conservative Popular Party of Spain, has participated this Friday in the fifth day of the traveling convention of his training accompanied by former Mexican president Felipe Caldern (2006-2012). The meeting takes place in full controversy after the apologies offered by Pope Francis for the excesses committed by the Church in the Conquest of America and the crossing of statements that it caused between popular politicians and the Government of the President of Mexico, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador. In this sense, Casado has refused to apologize for the Spanish Conquest, as requested by the current Mexican president
The spinach frittata that connects me to my Sephardic grandmother – Forward
admin | September 30, 2021
In one of the scenes from my book, The Poetry of Secrets, Isabel, the main character is served fritada espinaca, or spinach frittata, at a Shabbat dinner, her first one since she has been captured by the Spanish Inquisition. My choice of that food was deliberate
Homecoming show hails artistry and endurance of Sarajevo Haggadah – The Guardian
admin | September 27, 2021
Seven centuries after it was created, a priceless Sephardic Jewish book whose wine-stained pages have somehow survived exile, the Inquisition, the rise and fall of an empire, two world wars and the Bosnian conflict, is making a homecoming. Of sorts.
Stuffed Artichokes for Sukkot The Sephardic Spice Girls Way – Jewish Journal
admin | September 27, 2021
My son Ariel called me from Jerusalem this week. He told me that he and his wife Rachel had booked a Sukkot meal at the Sephardic House Hotel
Little Sesame offers an education in hummus for the Washington set – Jewish Insider
admin | September 27, 2021
Good hummus doesnt need many ingredients: chickpeas, fresh lemon juice, tahini, some garlic and salt. But that doesnt mean its easy to make
