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Sephardi Jews

Flory Jagoda at the Richmond Folk Festival in 2012. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inMusic

Flory Jagoda, champion of Sephardic music, dies at 97

by Ben Harris and JTA February 2, 2021February 3, 2021
Dan Schifrin and daughter Elia overlooking the Spanish city of Toledo.
Posted inFirst Person

I had unfinished business in Spain, going back 500 years

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin January 2, 2020January 7, 2020
Daniel Azarkman drinking rose at his wine bar, El Lopo. (Andrew Curry)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Spain and California find common ground at El Lopo wine bar

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 27, 2019
Still from the film “Sefarad,” about Portuguese Jewish hero Artur Carlos de Barros Basto. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Community of Portugal)
Posted inFilm

This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Then it made a $1 million movie, coming to Amazon.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 22, 2019November 25, 2019
Preparing for a Yemenite Jewish wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Punam Bean)
Posted inEducation

Writing a new chapter in education about Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 19, 2019September 18, 2019
black and white photo of two adult men, three adult women, and two young boys trekking through the desert
Posted inLocal Voice

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews deserve to be counted

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin September 17, 2019September 16, 2019
"Kanta Judezmo" composer Sascha Jacobsen’s cousins, the Capeloutos, in Rhodes, circa 1906 (Photo/Courtesy Sascha Jacobsen)
Posted inCulture

Ladino is the language, S.F. the setting for world premiere of grand Jewish oratorio

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 18, 2019April 18, 2019
Rice, lentils, chick peas, beans and other legumes shown in a produce market in Netanya, Israel. (Photo/JTA-David Silverman-Getty Images)
Posted inColumns

The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2019April 15, 2019
A scene from “The Unorthodox”
Posted inTV & Film

Birth of Shas party recounted with humor, heart in ‘The Unorthodox’

by Michael Fox March 6, 2019March 6, 2019
19th Century Libyan Jews
Posted inNews

JIMENA and Israel ramp up Mizrachi and Sephardic oral history project

by J. Staff July 31, 2018August 7, 2018

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