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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
admin | February 28, 2022
Paco Dez is something of a musical wizard.
admin | February 28, 2022
Lala Books monthly event pairs book talk with cocktails LOWELL Lala Books has crafted a monthly gathering that brings readers together to chat about a good book while enjoying a cocktail. The Boozy Bookclub meets at Warp & Weft, at 197 Market St., in Downtown Lowell on the fourth Thursday of every month at 6 p.m
admin | February 28, 2022
As a general rule, it is forbidden to kiss another person in the synagogue, especially ones children. The reason for this is that we must remember that our love for G-d must even exceed the love that we have for our children.1 Similarly, it is explained that if it were permitted to kiss ones children in the synagogue, the function of the synagogue as a place where we focus exclusively on G-d would be compromised.2 Although there is an opinion that the ban against kissing children in the synagogue only applies to ones little children,3 most authorities rule that it applies to ones children whether theyre little or grown-up adults.4 A number of authorities are of the opinion that the prohibition against kissing in the synagogue only applies to ones children and not to other people.
admin | February 28, 2022
For many years, U.S. citizenship and an Americanpassportwere the gold standard around the world. The pandemic and the recent election changed all that, resulting in a surge in demand for Americans seeking second passports and wanting to buy citizenshipespecially in Europe.
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