Participants touring the Central Synagogue of Thessaloniki, Greece. What an incredible journey it has been! This summer, 21 members of...

Republished with permission from the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Photograph of Rabbi Leon J. Pessah...

Next month, Stanford University Press will publish The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders . Written by...

We Sepharadim – and many other people around the world – love our feta. But few people know the long, fascinating history of feta.   The...

Newly catalogued archives of the Jewish Community of Izmir, Turkey On December 17, 2024, an invaluable treasure of Jewish heritage was...

Interior of the Kahal Shalom Synagogue of Rhodes The story of the Jewish community in Rhodes is a powerful testament to faith, loss, and...

Mazal Bueno of Regina Algranti Soriano, passed down to to her great granddaughter, Rachel Pearle Hasson It was one of those Sunday...

A Jewish couple in Salonika in 1942 or 1943 (US Holocaust Museum). Judith Baumel coined the term “double jeopardy” to explain the double...

Sephardic recipes call this dish apyo which is the Ladino word for the main ingredient, celeriac, also known as celery root or celery...

Greek-Jewish boxers Salamo Arouch, above, and Jacko Razon, photo below, both of Thessaloniki, were forced to fight other prisoners in...

Sunday was my father’s day to get into the kitchen and relax by cooking wonderful dishes, including Sephardic favorites from his family...

Dedicated to my great-grandparents, Bulisu and Şapat Menda *A note to the reader:In Turkish, the letter “Ş” is pronounced “sh” and the...

There once was a female rat who lived in a library, and having read all the books at her disposal, decided to start composing romansas....

I’m not ashamed to admit that I am a Sephardic muggle. Those who are Harry Potter fans will remember that a muggle is someone who did not...

Every Friday morning I eagerly open my email and look for the latest issue of La Boz Sefaradi / The Sephardic Voice, the Brotherhood’s...

This is the story of the miraculous survival of the Holocaust in Greece, of our entire family of six, including my two-year old brother,...

If you come across a document written in Judeo-Spanish (“Ladino”) in your basement or attic, composed by a grandparent or...

For many years, my preferred mode of communication - whether of joy or of sadness -  has been through song. Ladino songs, specifically....

In about 1724, a young Italian composer ventured into the Jewish Ghetto and visited its resident Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Italki scuole ,...

Stella Levi had never spoken about her past, until she met Michael Frank. One Saturday, Michael stopped by her apartment to ask a...