For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.

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Internationally acclaimed, Fortuna was honored in 2025 with the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Preservation of Sephardic Culture, recognizing her outstanding contribution to safeguarding ...

Several years ago, I found myself in conversation with a college professor about the Muslim conquest of Spain in the medieval period. At one point I mentioned that I was a Sephardic Jew. He quickly ...

For South Florida, Passover is a great time to get spicy. The foods for this Jewish holiday lend themselves to energy, ...

The sun shone brightly on a late spring morning as Mitchell Weitzman took two pieces of bread and a pair of tortillas from a plastic bag, drew his arm back, and lobbed them into a smoking metal barrel ...

In Israel, the holiday ends on April 8. Each year, the holiday falls on different dates due to Jewish tradition abiding by a lunar calendar. The holiday is almost always entirely in April, although ...

Sinai Temple has initiated a new Shabbat program to share different traditions from around the Jewish world. As Rabbi Sherman explained in his sermon on Terumah, just as the curtains of the Mishkan ...

My son sat quietly in a pew beneath the chandelier at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israel, his feet barely touching the floor. He is young — still at the age when much of the world arrives as a ...

Not long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Cantor Jamie Marx of Temple Sholom in Broomall came to a couple of local music professionals with what he identified as a problem that needed solving. Marx ...

Spring is festival season for Seattle movie lovers. For a few weeks each year, film festivals take over the city’s theaters, turning them into gathering spots for audiences eager to see what’s new on ...

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against ...