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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — 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 ...

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 ...

The musician will bring audience members on "A Sephardic Musical Journey" Monday when she takes the stage for the Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series, offered through the University of Arizona ...

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 ...

Join us for The White Islands/Las islas blancas: A Sephardic Sojourn—an unforgettable evening where history, poetry, and music come together to bring the Sephardic Jewish experience to life. This ...

They also traveled to the New World with conquistadors and settlers from Holland, Spain and Portugal. Thus, like ripples in a pond, the Sephardic Jewish Diaspora spread ever outward, and in their ...

These are stressful times here in Israel. War on two fronts, soldiers killed almost daily, 101 hostages still in Gaza, nonstop sirens and barrages of rockets, thousands still displaced from their ...

IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others interested in Jewish history. The Nazis left many of city’s ...

Their ancestors came from North Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Iberia. And they’re all Jewish. Sephardic Jews, at just 10% of the American Jewish population, are a minority within a ...

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 ...