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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 14 min read

Double Jeopardy: The Holocaust and the Sephardic Women of Salonika
A Jewish couple in Salonika in 1942 or 1943 (US Holocaust Museum). Judith Baumel coined the term “double jeopardy” to explain the double...
Nathalie Ross
Apr 16 min read


Apyo - Turkish Celery Root and Carrot
Sephardic recipes call this dish apyo which is the Ladino word for the main ingredient, celeriac, also known as celery root or celery...
Susan Barocas
Apr 13 min read

The Greek Jews Who Boxed for their Lives to Survive the Nazis
Greek-Jewish boxers Salamo Arouch, above, and Jacko Razon, photo below, both of Thessaloniki, were forced to fight other prisoners in...
Alexi Friedman
Apr 14 min read


My Poppi and Chickpea Soup
Sunday was my father’s day to get into the kitchen and relax by cooking wonderful dishes, including Sephardic favorites from his family...
Susan Barocas
Jan 73 min read


Si Kere El Dio - If God Wills It
Dedicated to my great-grandparents, Bulisu and Şapat Menda *A note to the reader:In Turkish, the letter “Ş” is pronounced “sh” and the...
Nuia Menda Malki
Sep 26, 20248 min read


The Wise Rat Who Composed Romansas
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....
Rachel Amado Bortnick
Jan 15, 20242 min read


Becoming Sephardic
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...
Rabbi Mark Greenspan
Jan 15, 20243 min read


Zemirot of the Week and Connection to Istanbul’s Mahazike Tora
Every Friday morning I eagerly open my email and look for the latest issue of La Boz Sefaradi / The Sephardic Voice, the Brotherhood’s...
Jake Kohanek
Jan 15, 20244 min read


Seven Miracles - The Story of a Survivor from Veria, Greece
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,...
Isaac Daniel
Sep 5, 20238 min read

New Project launches Solitreo Script Online
If you come across a document written in Judeo-Spanish (“Ladino”) in your basement or attic, composed by a grandparent or...
Dr. Bryan Kirschen
Apr 18, 20233 min read

New Ladino music and food come together in innovative SAVOR Project - brings 10 Sephardic Chefs together from around the world!
For many years, my preferred mode of communication - whether of joy or of sadness - has been through song. Ladino songs, specifically....
Sarah Aroeste
Apr 18, 20233 min read


400 Years of Sephardic Choral Music
In about 1724, a young Italian composer ventured into the Jewish Ghetto and visited its resident Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and Italki scuole ,...
Ian Pomerantz
Mar 6, 20235 min read


One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
Stella Levi had never spoken about her past, until she met Michael Frank. One Saturday, Michael stopped by her apartment to ask a...
Alexandra Fellus
Mar 6, 20232 min read


A Banker’s Journey: How Edmund J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire
The name is widely recognizable: Safra Bank, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Jerusalem Municipality’s Kikar...
Magazine Staff
Mar 1, 20232 min read

Christmas Lights, Brought to You by a Sephardic (Brotherhood) Jew!
Republished with Permission from the Washington Post Americans spend more than half a billion dollars annually on 150 million units of...
Dr. Devin E. Naar
Mar 1, 20236 min read


Arrivals - A Sephardic-Ashkenazi Love Story, New Sephardic Off-Broadway show produced by Brotherhood, a Hit in NYC!
What an amazing show! Thank you to everyone who joined us in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation and the Seattle Jewish...
Magazine Staff
Mar 1, 20231 min read


The Fez Frozen in Time: A Cultural and Political Symbol for Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire
It was 1951 when Victor Cadranel was attending a masked ball at the Athénée Royale in Élizabetheville, Zaire. Now known as Lubumbashi in...
Alexandra Fellus
Sep 15, 20224 min read


The Synagogues of Greece: an exhibition, new books and an archive
The origins of the Jewish heritage of Greece are lost in antiquity. According to the ancient historian Strabo, there were organized...
Elias V. Messinas
Sep 15, 20225 min read


The Renaissance of Judeo-Spanish Poetry, and Why it Matters
Without much fanfare, a seminal event in Judeo-Spanish history took place on March 17, 2021. Participating organizations from all over...
Ian Pomerantz
Sep 15, 20224 min read
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