simmons | June 13, 2017
Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, also represents a culture that has survived hundreds of years and is still relevant today. And more people need to know about it. Ladino is a pan-Mediterranean language that crosses geographic, linguistic and cultural boundaries
richards | June 13, 2017
Getty Images Rabbi Joseph Dweck, the chief Sephardic rabbi of the United Kingdom, speaks at a World War I remembrance ceremony. (JTA) The United Kingdomstop Sephardic rabbi becamethe center of an international controversy after he praisedsocietal acceptance of homosexuality as a fantastic development
simmons | June 9, 2017
University of Oregon Clark Honors College professor Monique Balbuena was recognized by the Jewish Book Council for her most recent work, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora. Balbuenas book was a finalist in the category of Sephardic culture for the National Jewish Book Awards, the longest-running and most prestigious Jewish literature awards. Sephardic refers to Jews whose ancestors originated in the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Portugal and Spain
simmons | June 8, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) The mayor of Mexico City praised his countrys Sephardi heritage during the opening of the global biennial Erensya summiton Tuesday. In Mexico we have history, we have inheritance, we have language that comes from Sephardi history, Miguel Angel Mancera said.
admin | June 8, 2017
Ashkenazic Jews are accustomed to seeing Sephardic Jews return late on Shabbat and Yom Tov evenings.
richards | June 6, 2017
WIkipedia RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City.
admin | June 6, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City. Coordinated by the Latin American Sephardic Federation, the Cumbre Erensya summit will bring together delegates from the Americas, Europe and Australia onJune 5-7
admin | June 6, 2017
Getty Images Book fair in Brazil A poet, translator and fiction writer, Idra Novey honors all those genres in her first novel, Ways to Disappear. This novel, she told me in a recent conversation, is a stewing pot in which I threw in poetry and translation in the same book. I put a lid on it and turned up the heat, hoping it would cook into something
admin | June 5, 2017
WIkipedia RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City. Coordinated by the Latin American Sephardic Federation, the Cumbre Erensya summit will bring together delegates from the Americas, Europe and Australia onJune 5-7. Former meetings took place in Spain, Turkey and Bulgaria.
richards | June 4, 2017
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City.
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