admin | March 1, 2020
Yehuda Blum Grace Aguilar Who she was: Grace AguilarWhere and when: Victorian EnglandWhat we know: Born to Portuguese Jewish parents who fled the Inquisition, Grace Aguilar grew up in a London suburb, enmeshed in the sizable Sephardic community even as she led a fairly typical middle-class life. As a child, Aguilar experimented with writing plays and poetry, but like many Victorian female writers, she pursued publication as a way to make money: both of her parents became chronically ill when she was a teenager, forcing her to become the familys breadwinner
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admin | March 1, 2020
Thank you for reading Keep The Faith! If you enjoy our content, tell us by leaving a review here Six lead artistshave been announced forthe latest round of Opera NorthsResonance residencies this spring, developing new ideas in workshops andwork in progress performances in Leeds, with the support of PRS Foundation. Launchedin 2017, Resonance offers time, space and resources to professional artists fromBAME backgrounds working in any genre of music and based in the North ofEngland, to take their work in new directions, to experiment with collaboratorsand new ideas, and to test the results in front of audiences
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admin | February 28, 2020
In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaires opened for business.
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admin | February 28, 2020
By Joel Davidi Weisberger | February 27, 2020 This piece will focus on how and why some Ashkenazic Jewsboth religious and (later) secularadopted the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew because they deemed it superior to the Ashkenazi one.
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admin | February 28, 2020
The American Sephardi Federation's New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF) honored iconic fashion designer Elie Tahari, as well as filmmaker Keren Yedaya, with Pomegranate Awards for Sephardi Excellence in the Arts, each sculpted by internationally acclaimed, Baghdad-born artist Oded Halahmy, at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, NY 10011). On Opening Night (February 23rd at 6pm), Elie Tahari received the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Fashion Designer and filmmaker Keren Yedaya (winner of the Camra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival) received the Pomegranate Award for Director
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admin | February 28, 2020
CASTELO DE VIDE, Portugal - The Spanish Inquisition is an ugly chapter in the history of the church. It lasted more than three hundred years, spanned continents and became one of the most extreme examples of anti-Semitism ever seen. Today, theyre called Bnei Anusim or sons of the forced ones
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admin | February 27, 2020
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admin | February 27, 2020
You need to remember just one thing on Monday. A person who carries on his back three indictments, who has dragged the country into three elections within one year, who lets characters like Amir Ohana, Miri Regev, Bezalel Smotrich and Naftali Bennett rule over us; the man who ran roughshod over the judicial system, slowly poisoned the High Court of Justice, alienated 20 percent of the citizens and along the way trampled over the press wants to keep being prime minister
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admin | February 21, 2020
Part 1 This piece will focus on how and why some Ashkenazic Jewsboth religious and (later) secularadopted the Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew because they deemed it superior to the Ashkenazic one. In the last two decades of the 18th century, concurrent with the rise of the chasidic movement in Eastern Europe, a pietist group was emerging in Germany
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admin | February 21, 2020
By Rabbi Haim Jachter | February 20, 2020 Yalkut Yosef vs. Divrei Shalom VeEmet This is a hotly debated issue! Chacham Yitzhak Yosef (Yalkut Yosef (25:71) notes that our custom is for men to place tefillin shel yad while seated.
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