When Maya and Noa Dori were kids growing up in Israel, they used to spend Shabbat with their grandmother Lisa Romano. One night, as Maya tells it, they walked outside and “started to pinpoint the ...

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Ladino singer/songwriter Sarah Aroeste and chef/teacher Susan Barocas have teamed up for a unique project designed to keep Sephardic traditions alive. “’Savor’ is a multisensory conversation between ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that with ...

For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to put their ...

Sephardic Legacy explores women's oral song tradition and stories of women's lives through folk songs influenced by the Sephardi and Spanish diaspora. Presented by The Ladino Project with acclaimed ...

For students who want to explore a topic on a deeper level, the College of Arts and Sciences offers no shortage of hands-on research and creative experiences undergraduates can participate in. Over ...

IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Prague has the dubious honor of being chosen by Adolf Hitler to be a record of what he hoped would be the vanquished Jews of Europe. The Nazis left many of the city’s synagogues ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A documentary on the extraordinary life of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari. Jewish women who were the stars of Bollywood’s Golden Age. A tango dancer and a rabbi in Crown Heights ...