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What Unifies the Jewish People? Thoughts for Tisha BeAv
Elias Canetti, a Sephardic Jew who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, offers some interesting observations about Jews in his...

Rabbi Marc D. Angel
Jul 18, 20253 min read


An Open Letter Addressing Misinformation Spread by Noam "Nani" Vazana
We, the undersigned, are dedicated to the revitalization of the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language, which has been designated as an...

Rachel Amado Bortnick
May 19, 20255 min read


Our Mazal Bueno: A Rhodesli family keepsake then and now
Mazal Bueno of Regina Algranti Soriano, passed down to to her great granddaughter, Rachel Pearle Hasson It was one of those Sunday...

Aron Hasson
Apr 1, 20254 min read


Sharing the Vision - Torah Thoughts for Passover
Early in the Agada, we read of the gathering in B’nei B’rak of Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and...

Rabbi Marc D. Angel
Apr 1, 20253 min read


Reviving Leil Purim: A Sephardic & Mizrahi Henna Tradition for Modern Jewish Women
As I stirred together sugar, water, lemon, oil, and henna powder, the scent bloomed—fragrant herbal bouquets weaving through the banquet...
Orah Simba
Apr 1, 20252 min read


A Great Mind of Sephardic Torah - Don Isaac Abravanael
An artistic rendering of Don Isaac Abravanel Don Isaac Abravanel (b. 1437; d. 1508) is remembered as a great rabbi and commentator among...

Rabbi David Gingold Altchek
Apr 1, 20254 min read
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