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Sephardic Jews

La America, a Ladino paper from the U.S., published 1911. (Courtesy NIL)
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Stanford Ladino scholar keeps grip on fading Ottoman Jewish world

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 24, 2026April 24, 2026

Ladino is a historical language of the Sephardic Jews, an amalgam of 15th-century Spanish and other Romance languages. Traditionally written in Hebrew characters, it is also influenced by Hebrew in […]

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Sephardic culinary historian seeks to win over matzah skeptics

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The new Jews of Porto: How the Portuguese city built a Jewish community from scratch

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Wilderness Torah's 2022 Rosh Hashanah seder at Green Valley Farms. (Photo/Julia Maryanska for Wilderness Torah)
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Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year

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Tamar Bloch in the Beit Dakira museum, part of a JIMENA-sponsored virtual trip to Morocco.
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Newly founded Sephardic Leadership Institute will elevate Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish voices 

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