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Muestras Konsejas: Mother, a Memoir
Like Lady Liberty and her torch, my mother holds aloft her own precious symbol, the jar of homemade Harosset, prepared well in advance of...
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
Apr 17 min read

Message from the Editor: La Djente - The People
La Djente - The People. I am honored to introduce you to the new name of our beloved magazine. There is a Jewish idea that a person’s...
Alexandra Fellus
Jan 82 min read


Where Are the Sepharadi Yeshivot?
Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, learning with young students in Jerusalem A quick...
Avi Garson
Jan 77 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


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


A New Era of Jewish Life - Izmir Jewish Heritage Project
An unusual cluster of synagogues bearing a typical architectural style dating from the 15th and 16th century exists in Izmir - Turkey....
Nesim Bencoya
Jan 15, 20225 min read

Jewish Workers in Istanbul and the 1906 Strike at the Cibali Reji Tobacco Factory
The 1906 strike at one of the largest factories in Istanbul at the time has all but disappeared from the history of the city and the...
Nesi Altaras
Jan 15, 20224 min read


Sephardic Book Review - Don’t Forget Me
“Don’t forget me, my dear children, my beloved children, my only reason for living.” With these words Neama Cazes, a 54-year-old Jewish...
Dr. Leon Saltiel
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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