admin | March 20, 2022
Up to a million Israelis are expected to attend the funeral Sunday for the revered leader of Lithuanian Jewry, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, ztl. The rabbi passed away on Friday at age 94, in the hour before the start of the Sabbath.
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admin | March 20, 2022
Speculation regarding the whereabouts of targeted Russian-Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich ratcheted up Sunday after a plane belonging to him was spotted landing in Tel Aviv. Abramovich, an Israel passport-holder who owns the English premier Leagues Chelsea soccer club, was sanctioned by the UK last week following Russias invasion of Ukraine, essentially blocking him from his home in London. Portuguese citizenship he acquired last year by claiming Sephardic heritage has also come under scrutiny, with the rabbi that vouched for him being detained Thursday.
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admin | March 18, 2022
For more than two weeks now, a devastating crisis in Ukraine has forced many Jews eligible under the Law of Return to leave their homes and plan to immigrate to Israel. Israeli officials say they are preparing for an increase of 100,000 people from both Ukraine and Russia due to the economic and political situation in both countries.
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admin | March 14, 2022
We request that the above-mentioned procedures listed below are duly complied with. These procedures do not dispense with the careful reading of the procedures described below: By Decree-Law, it is mandatory to hold a certificate issued by the Portuguese Jewish Communities - duly registered locally under the status of religious legal entities, that is, the Jewish Communities of Lisbon (CIL) and of Porto (CIP). The Jewish Community of Lisbon has made available: The burden of proof rests on the applicant, who must provide as much evidence as possible, of all kinds, showing direct or collateral progenyand the tradition of belonging to a Sephardic community of Portuguese origin.
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admin | March 14, 2022
Sharon! Your grandmothers cookies!! was the excited direct message from our friend Ruth when she saw our Instagram post about the upcoming Sephardic Spice Girls Iraqi Master Bake Class. In those few words, she telegraphed so much. You see, my grandmother Nana Aziza made the most incomparable, most delectably tasty baba tamar
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admin | March 14, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A busy street west of the river takes its name from a settlement that existed before Albuquerque was even an idea.
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admin | March 14, 2022
Lyric Fest presents an exciting program of world premieres from ten composers in The Song Catcher, a concert centered on re-imagining the folk song. The folk song is appreciated for its direct expression and narrative quality, and honors world culture as well as speaks to our shared humanity. The Song Catcher looks to the long tradition of composers who have used the folk song as a touchstone for their creativity
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admin | March 8, 2022
When singer, fiddler, songwriter, and composer Lily Henley set out to make an album of Sephardic Jewish ballads set to new melodies, she was looking for her own way to interpret a tradition that she saw as critically endangered. With Oras Dezaoradas, to be released on May 6, 2022 on Lior ditions, Henley wanted to highlight the Ladino language, a threatened tongue that fuses old Spanish with Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish elements and is spoken by less than 100,000 people in the world today
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admin | March 8, 2022
This April, Chatham Baroque presents New York-based ensemble East of the River for the program Hamsa, featuring music from the geographic regions of Andalusia, North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the Sephardic diaspora. This program consists of songs and dances from liturgical and folk traditions as well as examples of classical instrumental music from the Ottoman court. These various types of music aren't built with Western musical conventions, but rather, use the system of microtonal melodic modes referred to as the Arabic maqam.
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admin | March 8, 2022
To have known Matilda Laura Rosenberg was to be splashed with Mediterranean sunshine. She was incredibly loved by those she held dear family, close friends, colleagues and the hundreds of families she served in a distinguished career as a social work.
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