admin | January 5, 2020
Istanbul (AFP) If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha. "Surely, very few
admin | January 5, 2020
Youve seen Chanukah-time Adam Sandler before but never like this.
admin | January 4, 2020
Around 1492 my ancestors, the Papos, fled Iberia for the Middle East or southern Europe, along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews, in what became a vast Sephardic diaspora. Then, in the early 1800s, the Papo descendants moved to Jerusalem, thriving as rabbis and agronomists for more than a century, until World War I.
admin | January 4, 2020
If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha.
admin | January 4, 2020
Yesterday, we went to see the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems. The movie is directed by Joshua and Benjamin Safdie, Sephardic Jews, and Adam Sandler, who is Jewish, plays Howard Ratner, a Jewish jewelry dealer in the famed NYC diamond district on east 47th street
admin | January 4, 2020
Kenny used fish as bait and I took it, Jose Dominic says, his laugh filling the foyer of AB Salem House, his new 10-room guest house in Kochi. He is describing how he got seduced into a second innings as an entrepreneur, just a year after he stepped away from the leadership of the CGH Earth hotels group, which his father founded in 1954. AB Salem House is a historic building, just down the road from the famous Paradesi Synagogue, in Kochis Mattancherry or Jew Town area
admin | January 4, 2020
Free public menorah lighting ceremonies will be held at various locations in Los Angeles County Sunday to mark the final night of Hanukkah, including in Boyle Heights, once the main center of Jewish life on the West Coast. "Chanukah on the Eastside," will be held from 7-10 p.m
admin | January 2, 2020
New Years Day finds us with a lot of new people walking around. Even the people we know are strangers today. We may appear strange even to ourselves today.
admin | January 2, 2020
Just three days before the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, one of the worlds top newspapers published a column by one if its full-time opinion contributors arguing that one ethnic group is inherently more intelligent than others. In this case, the superior ethnic group in question was, unsurprisingly, that to which the writer belongs.
admin | December 31, 2019
Featured photo courtesy of Shulamit Seidler-Feller/MaharatBy JTA Staff NEW YORK (JTA) All of the gloom and doom that many in the Jewish community have felt toward the end of this decade should not obscure the fact that the 2010s were full of innovation. Yes, there was an alarming rise in anti-Semitism across the U.S. and the world, which culminated in several violent attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions
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