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  El Salón del Presidente es un espacio preciado en la sinagoga de la comunidad Ezra Bessaroth donde se honra a quienes desempeñaron papeles fundamentales en el éxito de esa kehila. En un momento histórico, se agregó un retrato del querido Hazan Isaac Azose a la galería de fotografías de …

En 1943, un judío marroquí celebró el final de la ocupación componiendo y publicando un libro inspirado en la Hagadá de Pesaj. Los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial se concentraron principalmente en asesinar judíos de Europa Central y Oriental; el sufrimiento del medio millón de judíos de Marruecos, Túnez, Argelia …

El evento se lleva a cabo en asociación con Sephardic Heritage International y el Smithsonian. Las embajadas de Israel y Marruecos en Washington están organizando la primera celebración conjunta de Mimouna en asociación con Sephardic Heritage International en Washington (SHIN-DC) y la Institución Smithsonian. La fiesta de Mimouna es una …

The sixth annual event at the UW headlines with French Sephardic activist Francois Azar. A parrot perches in front of a packed synagogue on Rosh Hashanah. Advertised as “a Jewish parrot” (“un papagayo djudió”) at Bloomingdale’s, the bird had amazed his new owner, a wealthy merchant from Istanbul, with performances of Hebrew …

IAJGS 2016 Speaker Profile: Jeffrey S. Malka Jeffrey Malka is the author of the prize-winning book Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering your Sephardic Ancestors and their World(Avotaynu, 2002) and creator of the SephardicGen Resources website. Descended from a long line of Sephardic rabbis going back to 13th century, Spanish tax-farmers, blacksmiths, as …

In Seattle’s large Sephardic community, offers of Spanish and Portuguese citizenship are met with more skepticism than forgiveness SATTLE — University of Washington Prof. Devin Naar is quickly becoming a de facto custodian of the historic remnants of the Northwest’s Sephardic Jewry’s day-to-day lives. During an interview in his modest …

Sephardic Jews, descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, first settled in Seattle in 1902. For generations after the expulsion, Sephardim lived throughout the Mediterranean lands of the Ottoman Empire, where they were able to preserve their religion and cultural traditions, and even developed a language, Ladino, based on …

Sephardi/Mizrahi-related sessions, papers and posters at the 2011 AJS Meetings in Washington, DC. Sunday, December 18 1. Session Title: Reversion to Judaism in the Crown of Aragon During the Late Middle Ages –          Differing Rabbinic Approaches toward Reverting Apostates in Christian Spain: Sources and Strategies.  *Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) –          …

By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – Standing over the letter, one would never know its unique story. Worth millions at auction, reading it unveils that it stands as a testament to religious freedom in America. But as it stares up, idly sitting there, the stories of “erotic” behavior, twisted …