Sephardi World Weekly

Sephardi World Weekly shares brief introductions and links to timely, thought-provoking articles on Greater Sephardi history, the arts, and current affairs.

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2024

29 March
A Maimonides Mystery, Hidden Asian Jewish Languages, & Bret Stephens

15 March
Once Upon a Time in Gaza, Andalusian Astrolabe, & Purim Piyyut

10 March
The Wise of Heart, New Language Hub, & Children of Forgotten Jewish Refugees Remember

2 March
From Stigma to Staple, Harlem’s Ethiopian Cafe, & Cream of Wheat

25 February
Agnon on the Train, Spinozian Salvation, & Yiddish at Ladino Day?

28 January
Special International Holocaust Remembrance Day Edition

14 January
Special Fauda in Gaza Edition: A Warrior’s Pain, Kurdi & Proud

7 January
Sephardi House Student Sues to Stop Antisemitsm, Maimonides in Crisis, & Wartime North Africa

2023

31 December
Targeted Again in Tunisia, Muhammed Under Fire, & A Swinging Piyyut

15 December
Erasing Gaza’s Rabbi, Indian Jews Fighting Hamas, & Mayhem in Manipur

11 December
Answering Anti-Zionism, Hamas’ Farhud, & Hanukkah Piyyut

18 November
A Nation of Lions! A Nation of Lions!

10 November
Free Speech on Campus, Sarah’s Two Lives, and Homeland

3 November
Yale Daily News Defends Hamas, Russian Pogromists, & Antisemitism on Campus

30 October
Hamas is Chamas, Bring Them Home, & A Muslim American Voice

22 October
The Wider War: Islamist Ideology versus the World

15 October
What I Learned at Harvard, Why Don’t You See Me?, & Hamas’ War in Israel & on US Campuses

8 September
Israeli Superstar Packs MSG, Surprising Spanish/Moroccan Women’s Discovery, & Ribo’s Heart

5 September
Atlan’s Avinu Malkeinu, Colombian Jews Return, & A Little Museum

25 August
Adeni Jewish Women, Netanya Sandwich Shop’s Viral Video, & Archival MOU

18 August
106th Anniversary of Salonika’s Great Fire

11 August
Special Envoy in Distinctions, the Sumptuous Smell of Egyptian Sofrito, & Abu Dhabi Exceeding Expectations

4 August
Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, Bollywood’s Timeless Star, & Opposing Book Burners

28 July
Tuesdays with Rabino, Honoring Yasmin Levy, & Iran’s Dying Jewish Languages

21 July
Jewish Creole, Italian Houses of Life, & Nazi-Ikhwan Axis

14 July
Inta Omri, Islamist Antisemitism, & Interfaith Dialogue

7 July
When Solomon Saved America, Reclaiming the Sephardi Voice, & Streaming Abraham

7 July
Special Edition: Morocco’s King Inaugurates Bayt Dakira

2 July
4th of July Special: Star Spangled Piyyut, Lincoln’s Inspiration, Emma’s Voice, Elazar’s Covenant, and Inaugurating Seixas Way

25 June
Sephardi Renaissance, Pastries Past, and NY-Jerusalem Jazz

16 June
Love Letter to Arabic Music, Exceeding Emirati Expectations, & Ahibak

9 June
Sassoons in Shanghai, Faith in Sages, and Shabbat Unity

20 May
Tunisia Synagogue Attack, Maimonides Discovery, Installing Genesis, & Old-New Ideology

30 April
Yasmin Levy’s Sephardi Soul, Mizrahi Music, & Turkish Sephardi Delight

21 April
Yom HaShoah in Morocco & the Muslim World

4 April
THC’s Sephardi Godfather, Jo Amar’s Passover, & Fez Museum

24 March
Halabi Passover Preparations, Archeological Discoveries in Morocco, & Hijacked Heritage

17 March
Sleeping Through a Revolution, An Extraordinary Afghan Expat, & Remarkable Images

11 March
An Old Ladino Love Song, Moroccan Convivencia, & Maimonidean Medicine

27 February
Special Abrahamic Family House Edition

19 February
Lost Andalucían Synagogue, Building a Bosnian Archive, & Greek Jewry’s Holocaust

11 February
Turkish Earthquakes Old & New, Remembering Antakya, & Kosovo’s Jewish Community

3 February
Japan’s Secret Jewish History, Majorca’s Crypto-Jews, & Melillan Melting Pot

27 January
Unspoken Holocaust, Unsung Jewish Resistance, Never Again Greece, & North Africa

22 January
Mumbai’s Magen David, Sabato’s Story, & Yemenite Pastry

13 January
Pharaoh’s Daughter, Breaking Stereotypes, & Rebuilding Izmir

8 January
Ofra the Greatest, a Mystical Controversy, & Moroccan Shrine in Egypt

2022

30 December
Expulsion of Iraq’s Jews, Baba Sali’s Grandfather in Egypt, & Ottoman Tzfat

23 December
Kedushify the World, Honoring a Moroccan Scholar, & Bouzaglo’s Hanukkah Piyyut

16 December
Navon’s Living Legacy in Morocco, Hidden World of Afghan Jews, & Jewish Unity

9 December
Uncovering Jewish Roots, Sephardic Cultural Confidence, and Borochov’s Blues Nights

4 December
Special Jewish Refugees, Remembrance, & Redemption Edition

21 November
From Havana to Atlanta, Chayei Sarah Story, Moroccan University Makes History, & Beyt Allah’s Mezuzah

11 November
French New Wave, Rebuilding Our Homes, & An Ecstatic Shalom Aleichem

5 November
Antakya, Antakya, Iraq’s Qanun Master, & Abraham Accords as Judeo-Islamic Watershed

30 October
American & Sephardi Folk Fusion, Enduring Iraqi-Asian Enterprise, & New Song

21 October
Isabellian Irony, Iraqi-Jewish Musical Mission, & Ethiopian-Israeli Painter

30 September
Agnon’s Days of Awe, Casablanca’s Jewish Heritage, & Gaza’s Great Payytan

23 September
Reviving the Mellahs, Ioannina’s Romaniote History, & Cochin’s Customs

13 September
Safra’s Success, Afghani Greater Sephardi Piyyutim, & Saving Pvt Bar-Orian

2 September
The Last of Kerala’s Jews, Ethiopian Bible, Selichot, & Moroccan Memories

26 August
Marathon Gold, Ottoman Hospitality, & A Modesty Proposal

19 August
No Greater Love, Daring Life & Tragic Death, New Jerusalem Orchestra, & a Blind Baghdadis’ Qanun

12 August
Forgotten Exodus Podcast, First Modern Hebrew Poetess, and Emilia’s Shakespearean Mysteries

1 August
Peoplehood in Practice, Music of Indian Jewish Women, Jewish Africa

22 July
Singapore’s Synagogue, Chocolate’s Sephardi History, & Against the Inquisition

15 July
The Originals, Saving Historic Songs, Sights & Sounds of Jewish Africa

8 July
Iraqis Mix in Berlin, Aleppo Synagogue Re-Opened, & Halabi Piyyut

1 July
Call of Rabat Announced, Ruti’s Moroccan-Israeli Kitchen, & Divas in Exile

24 June
A Cup of Yehoshua, Reflections on a Literary Life, & Jerusalem

18 June
Morocco a True Partner, Azoulay’s Art, & Benjamin’s Blue Like Me

10 June
Celebrating in Cairo, Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, & Shabu’ot Piyyut

31 May
Parisian Couscous, Melodious Love of Silence, & Greek Jewish Renaissance

13 May
Angel on Emor, Moroccan King’s Condolences, & Soulful Lag B’Omer Piyyut

7 May
Remembering Elghanian, Bollywood Mural Unveiled, Tefila, & Mimouna in Marrakech

28 April
Special Yom HaShoah Edition: The Holocaust in Sephardic Lands

21 April
Arison’s Celebration of Jewish Life, Through Moroccan Eyes, & Enrico’s Butterfly?

15 April
Passover Piyyut, Jewish Life in Photos, & Symbols for Our Lives

9 April
Tahari’s Israeli Heart, Aciman’s Sephardi Spirit, & More than Movies

1 April
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is Back, Moroccan Success Story, & Nazarian’s Vision

29 March
Abrahamic Teaching, Taste of Tehrangeles, & Controversy From Sinai to Ethiopia

18 March
Mrs. Maisel’s Caroline Aaron, Sephardic Women’s Stories, & Neta Elkayam’s Pathos

11 March
Fauda Diplomacy, Halabi Purim Piyyut, & An Ethiopian Exemplar

4 March
A Secret Sephardic Spice, Moving to Dubai, & Bahrain’s Jewish Cemetery

27 February
Saving Jefferson’s Home, Reviving Judeo-Spanish, Parsha, & a Delicious Musical Dish

18 February
Antisemitism at NYU, Bouskila’s Burnt Tefillin, & Conserving Kurdish Jewry

11 February
To Egypt with Love, Turkey’s Cosmopolitan Nostalgia, & Restoring Bahrain’s Cemetery

5 February
A Syrian Woman in Japan, Indian-Israeli Community, & R’Najara Piyyut

29 January
Holocaust Miseducation, Celebrating Judeo-Spanish, & Revisiting the Bitton Report

23 January
Sephardi Genesis Laureate, Arab World Re-Opening, & A-WA

14 January
Song of the Sea, Iraqi-Singaporean Jews, & Judeo-Arabic & Persian Calligraphy

9 January
Izmir’s Keeper, Egypt’s Cosmopolitan Character, & Iran’s Antisemitic Democide

2021

31 December
Stolen Salonican Archive, Mexican Writer’s Sephardic Awakening, & Reclaiming Yemenite Jewish Identity

24 December
Sephardi Christmas Cookie?, Iraqi-Jewish Bakery’s Calcutta Christmas, & Celebrating Omni-American Beauty

19 December
Reclaiming Jewish Refugees Day, An Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Savior?, & Spinoza

10 December
Antisemitism in Castrillo, Maktoub Exhibit in Jerusalem, & A Legendary Omni-American

3 December
Hanukkah’s Hitch, Iranian Rabbi’s Tour, and Miraculous Moroccan Piyyut

26 November
Hanukkah Heroes, Moroccan Ma’oz Tzur, Hispanic Hanukkah Foods, & American Sephardi Thanksgiving

21 November
Louis Armstrong’s Star of David, Turkish Exhibit in Amsterdam, & R’Bouskila

12 November
Iran’s New Cabinet, Honoring Wynton Marsalis, Moroccan Scholars in Israel, Camondo’s Crypt

7 November
End of Iraqi Exile, Mexican Inquisition, & Rambam’s Geonic-Andalusian School

31 October
The Sheikh at YU, Fighting Antisemitism & Racism, & Omni-Americans Unite

17 October
Combating Antisemitism & Racism with Jazz, Beirut’s Jewish Past, & Daasa!

10 October
Once Upon a Time in Tunisia, Yeroham’s Moroccan Mayor, & Iraqi Ping Pong Lessons

1 October
My Moroccan Sukkot, Sephardic Enfranchisement, & Bigotry and the Blues

24 September
Greater Sephardi Songs of Sukkot: Afghani, Iraqi, & Moroccan

17 September
Forgotten Iraqi Diaspora, Andalusian at, & Piyyutim in Tel Aviv!

3 September
Revivo Selichot Medley, Moroccan-Israeli Avocados, & Adeni Jewish Museum

28 August
Revealing an Iranian Secret, 1st Selichot in the Gulf, & Yair Dalal’s Adon HaSelichot

20 August
Golden Age Andalusian Judaism, After the Expulsion, Honoring De Sousa Mendes, and Morocco-Israel Relations

13 August
Are Syrian Jews Arabs?, Greek Block Party, and Sephardi Selichot

6 August
Essential Sephardic Cookbooks, Coffee’s Ethiopian Roots, & La Serena

30 July
Spain’s Betrayal, Morocco-Israel Reconnected, and Reva LeAfrica In Jerusalem

23 July
Rita’s Persian Lullaby, Israeli Persians Cultivate Peace, and Our Avi in the News

17 July
In the Garden of Eden, Greek City of Jewish Memory, the Houthis’ Jewish Hostage, and A New Jewish Chapter in the Arab World

9 July
Piyyut-Playing Heavy Metal, Music of Monastir, and Middle Eastern Forbidden Fruit

2 July
Free Levi Marhabi, Criticizing Mein Kampf, and Monastir’s Sephardi Shoah Survivors

25 June
Meatballs Cursed by Jews, Rise of Mizrahi Music, and Four Moroccan Ministers

18 June
Drahi Making Moves, Shabazi Jazz, & Remembering a Rescuer

11 June
Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, Memories from My Sephardic Grandparents, & Magen Begin Prize

4 June
Losing the Last Generation of Sephardi Shoah Survivors, The Farhud’s Mob, & US Department of State on Marhabi Case

28 May
Special Farhud Edition: 80 Years After the Baghdad Pogrom

21 May
The Farhud’s 80th Commemoration, Yemenite Museum, & Adeni Jewish Life

14 May
Keeping Ladino Alive, Sephardi Solidarity with Israel, & Remembering Rabbi Hamra

7 May
Trailblazing Moroccan-Sephardi Rabbanit, Iberian Moorings, and Hidden Southwestern Jewish History

30 April
Chabad’s Sephardic Song Repertoire, Farhud Survivor Testimony, & Ozreini El Chai

25 April
Khartoum’s Secret Sephardic Cemetery, Carvajal’s Rediscovery, & Tripoli’s Targeting of Jewish History

16 April
Rescuing Jews in Ravaged Yemen, a Momentous Mimouna in Israel, & the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

11 April
Neta in the NYT, Yemenite Exodus, & Discovering Tétouan

2 April
Crossing the Red Sea in Ladino, Romaniote Shoah, Ethiopian Exodus, & 7th Day Syrian Pesah Song

26 March
Pesah Ala Mano! WWII’s North African Mystery Seder, Mountain Jews Acculturate Chabad, & the AGJC’s Passover Like No Other

19 March
Resisting Amnesia, Speaking Out on Critical Ethnic Studies, & Beyond the Curriculum

12 March
Sephardic Shoah Survivor Speaks, Iraq’s Farhud & Last Ghetto, & A Bahraini Jew Making History

5 March
The Iraqi-Jewish James Bond, New Abrahamic Horizons, & 1st Sephardi House Campus Event

27 February
Special Gulf Edition: A New Jewish-Muslim Golden Age?

19 February
Censorship & Baghdadi Jews, Pfizer CEO’s Salonikan Holocaust History, & Songs of Seeking

12 February
Sacred Sounds of Sephardi Jazz: Celebrating Itamar Borochov

5 February
Moroccan & Jewish Groups Hopeful, Israeli-Moroccan Novel, and Association Mimouna’s Anti-Semitism MOU

17 January
Ladino Rising, Moses Salio de Misrayim, & a YA Expulsion Book

9 January
Special Ladino Day Edition: 500 Years in a Sephardic Family’s Life, Do you speak Ladino?, & Keeping Ladino Lively

1 January
The Sephardic Jew Saving the, Morocco’s Sacred Protectors, Sepharadim in WWII, & an Israeli-Azeri Journey

2020

25 December
A Sephardi Christmas Cookie?, Calcutta Christmas at Iraqi-Jewish Bakery, & Couscous Recognized as World Cultural Heritage

18 December
Shimonov’s Greater Sephardi Story, Israel’s Oldest Yemenite, Scholarly SWAT Team, & My Brother

11 December
Hanukkah Heroes’ Sephardic Sources, Moroccan Ma’oz Tzur, Hitch on Hanukkah, & Leek Levivot

6 December
Stop Erasing Sepharadim, Portugal’s Sephardi Revival, and Rediscovering Classic Sephardic Judaism

29 November
Doña Gracia Nasi’s Graphic History, BBC Report on Moroccan Pluralist Curriculum, & A 30 November to Remember

20 November
The Kaddish Initiative, Southwestern Converso Comeback, and Celebrating SIGD

14 November
Happy 100th Birthday, Three Generations of Service, 10th Annual SIGD, & Multi-Faith Azerbaijani Unity

6 November
From the Sephardi Ghetto to the Israeli Mainstream, Saving a Lost Iraqi World, and Mizrahi-Style Musical Diplomacy

2 November
Meet the UAE’s Senior Rabbi in Residence, Sephardic Sudan, and Patriotic Azerbaijani Jews

26 October
Moroccan Jews in Paris, Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan, and a Rhodesli’s Ladino Journey

18 October
Abraham Accords, Iraqi Jews in the Gulf, & Umm Kulthum in Tel Aviv

9 October
An Icelandic Sephardic Cookie, Overcoming COVID-19, & Afghani Sukkot Piyyut

6 October
Lebanon’s Pluralist Past, A Middle Eastern Mistake, Brown Nougat Sukkah, & Iraqi Sukkot Piyyut

26 September
New Syrian Vidduy, Moroccan Tortitas, Catalonian Siddur, & Yom Kippur Piyyut

11 September
French Injustice, Penitential Piyyutim at the Kotel, and a Moroccan-Israeli Civilian Ambassador

4 September
Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?, Living Diasporically, & New Sephardi-Themed YA Novel

28 August
Remembering Ofra Haza, Exploring UK Sephardi Stories, & Discovering a Haza Hit’s Ladino Roots

21 August
Mountain Jews in Moscow, Holocaust in Greece, and My Heart in UAE?

14 August
Beirut’s Magnificent Magen Avraham Synagogue, Maimonidean Lemon Soup, and Bridging Disparate Diasporic Communities

7 August
Strengthening Thessaloniki’s Sephardic Tradition, Plague to Protein, and ASF’s Sephardi Playlist(s) on Spotify

31 July
An Iraqi-Indian Jew’s Dual Citizenship, Judeo-Islamic Calligraphy, & Yemenite-Jewish Tu B’Ab Love Song 

26 July
Murcia’s Sephardi Legacy, Yasmin Levy’s New Album, and Israel’s Iraqi Sandwich

17 July
Remembering Rabbi Marans, Mashadi Memoir, and the Kurdish Jewish Journey to Jerusalem

10 July
Balkan Sephardi History’s Relevance, Fauda Actor’s Kurdish Roots, and Remembering Jean Daniel Bensaïd

3 July
Lincoln’s Sephardic Inspiration, Patriotic Poet Grace Sexias, Syrian Sephardi Star-Spangled Piyyut, & the Biblical Basis of the American Republic

26 June
Secret Language of Cairo’s Jewelers, Inside LA’s Elat Market, and Yemen Blues on Fire

19 June
Special Combat Anti-Semitism Award Edition

12 June
US Condemns Iranian Anti-Semitism, Yasmin Levy’s Deep Ladino Roots, & the Best Tunisian Tuna Sandwich

5 June
Sephardi Jewry’s Resurgent Cultural Confidence, Diarna in Smithsonian Magazine, the Moroccan Mayor of NY, & ASF’s Sephardi Playlist No. 4

31 May
Rediscovering Shared Jewish and Muslim Roots, Holocaust-era Heroism, and Iranian Jews Cope with COVID-19

22 May
Vogue at a Yemenite Wedding, SEC’s Zoom Seder Defense, Esther Shrine’s Synagogue Attacked, & Six Songs with R’Hayyim Louk

17 May
Remembering Rabbi Murciano, 1st Great Judeo-Arabic Gaon, Gulf Jews in Saudi Show, & the 2nd Sephardi Playlist 

8 May
Introducing ASF’s Sephardi Playlist, an Andalusian Obesity Cure, and Zooming Ladino

1 May
Nazi Cover-up in Spain, Keeping Ladino Alive, and Plenty of Joy Tonight

25 April
Tangerine Judaism, Virtual Mimouna 2020, and All-Female Middle Eastern Jewish Music

17 April
Syrian NYC Retail Titan Stanley Chera, Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Bakshi Doron, Sephardi Shoah Survivor Dario Gabbai, and Moroccan Shirat HaYam

3 April
Yemenite Haggadah, Sephardic Pesaj Coco’s, Tangier & Moroccan Jewish Modernity, Sefrou’s Cultural Crossroads, and Remembering COVID-19 Casualties

27 March
Sephardi Passover Palate, Jo Amar’s Moroccan Haggadah, and Decolonizing the Jewish Soul

20 March
The Original Quarantine, Barbadian Rum’s Sephardic Founding, Remembering a Persian-Jewish Lexicographer, and Giving Thanks

13 March
Lost Bible Found in Cairo, Egypt’s Jewish Disney Family, and Moroccan Piyyut in Poland

8 March
Shabbat Stew Two Ways, Flory’s Purim Piyyut, and Matalon’s Masterpiece

16 February
The First Arabic Opera, Azerbaijan Inaugurates Museum for Mountain Jews, and the Egyptian-Jewish Cultural Legacy

10 February
Two Moroccan Tu BeShvat Piyyutim, Sephardi Trees Grow in Brooklyn, and Arabic Novel Explores Forgotten Tunisian Jewish History

31 January
Special Sephardi Shoah Edition: Greek Holocaust Survivors, Ereikoussa’s Courageous Saviors, & Greece’s Righteous Amongst the Nations

26 January
Special Edition: Morocco’s King Inaugurates Bayt Dakira

17 January
Alexandria’s Eliyahu HaNabi Synagogue Restored, the Boxing Style of Daniel Mendoza, and more on the Champion Fighting Sephardi

10 January
Special Ladino Day Edition: Learning Ladino in Istanbul, Singing Haketia in Morocco, Traveling from Salonica, & Moses Salio de Misrayim

2 January
Best Baghdadi Sweets Bakery in Kolkota, Jewish Africa Conference Recognized, and Centennial for Moroccan-Argentinian Synagogue

2019

27 December
Coexistence Celebrated at Casablanca’s Andalussyat Festival, Berenjenas Fritas Enmeladas con Queso, & the Arab World Opening to Jewish Neighbors

19 December
From Persia with Songs, Sephardi Opera Singer’s Success, and Preserving Kosovo’s Jewish Sites & Stories

12 December
Ellie Cohanim Recalls Iranian Jewish Refugee Experience, Mexican Jews (and ASF Honorees) on the Map in Florida & Ramat Gan, and History over Hashtags

6 December
Sephardi Heroine Makes Aliyah, Passage to Pakistan, and Recreating an Ethiopian Jewish Village

22 November
The Sephardi Key to Jewish Unity, Meet the Levy Family, and Enrico’s Yigdal Elohim Hai

15 November
Special Sephardi Shoah Edition: Reviving Rhodes Jewry, Jewish Community of Arta, Greece, & A Greek Jew Remembers the Holocaust

8 November
The 1st Iraqi-Jewish American Astronaut, Babylonian Treasure Saved from Tel Aviv Trash, and Growing-up Jewish in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

1 November
Pakistani Torah Scroll, Heralding Hakham Hedaya, and Ayelet Chen in a Mizrahi Mode

25 October
ASF in Sri Lanka, Jewish History in Sudan, Tehrani Brothers Back in Business, and It’s About Time (for Arab-Andalusian-North African-Israeli Jazz)

18 October
Moroccan Culture at Jerusalem Biennale, Veria’s Thread of Memory, and Singing a Song for Simhat Torah

11 October
Letter to a Young Ethiopian-Israeli, Moroccan & Iraqi Sukkah ve’Lulav, and Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes

4 October
Atoning for Spain’s Sin, African Roots of Moroccan Judaism, and Iraqi-Indian Adon HaSelicot

27 September
Rabbi Pinto’s Hillula at Essaouira, Al Alvarez’s Sephardic-English Life, & Babylonian Baqqashah in the Western Sephardi Style

20 September
Azerbaijan Honors Sephardi Hero, Sarajevo Times Features Flory, Tefillah in Tunisia, and Adios Kerida

13 September
Fauda Fans in UAE, A-Wa on NPR, and the Success of Sephardi Refugees in Morocco

6 September
New Netflix Syrian Sephardi Spy Thriller, Sacha Baron Cohen Plays Eli Cohen, Finding Refuge in Sepharad, & Arabic Literature’s Place in Israel

30 August
Returning to Morocco, LA Sephardic Singer’s Debut Album, and Salim Halali Sings!

23 August
Eleanor Roosevelt & Holocaust Refugees, Little Sicily in North Africa, and Sephardi Maestro Peress on Classical American Music

16 August
Tel Aviv’s Sephardi Markets, Returning to Morocco, and a New Brazilian Mikvah

9 August
Netflix’s The Red Sea Diving Resort, Shanghai’s Swanky Sassoon, and the Real-Life Ethiopian Aliyah

2 August
Old Cairo in Brooklyn, Rethinking Sabato Morais, Panama’s Sephardic Community, and Ethiopian Challah

26 July
Babylonian Jewry’s Literary Revival, Global Hispanic Conference in Israel, Jewish Jewelry at Israel’s Islamic Art Museum, & Back to Bukhara

19 July
Andalucious at Essaouira, Sephardi Rat Pack (aka Les Magnifiques), Morocco Conference Celebrates Uncommon Commonalities, & Resisting Amnesia

12 July
Special Lucette Lagnado, A”H, Memorial Edition

3 July
Kosher 4th of July, Irving Berlin’s Miss Liberty, Inaugurating Mill Street Synagogue & Sexias Way, and a Syrian Sephardi Star Spangled Piyyut

28 June
Albert Memmi’s Liberation, Bollywood Dancing in Petah Tikva, and an Upbeat Song about Isaac and Ishmael

21 June
Zohra Al Fassiya: Forgotten Giant of Moroccan Music, Greece’s 1st Jewish Mayor, and the Last Yemenite Silversmith

14 June
Special Morocco Conference Edition: Omer Avital’s Andalusian Jazz, Morocco’s Tradition of Tolerance, & Andalusi Conductor at Acre’s Arabesque Festival

7 June
Jewish Particularity and Purpose: A Classic Sephardi Sage on Shavuot’s All-Embracing Essence

31 May
Musical Moroccan Opening Night, Intersection of Israeli Jazz & Sephardi Identity, Home-Cooked Yemenite Food, and Greek Jewish Festival

24 May
Cairo Connections, Booming Syrian Sephardic Food Business, and Shimon Bar Yohai Piyyut in a Moroccan Mode

17 May
Indian Jews in Israel, Slice of Jewish Calcutta, and Hacham Angel on Classic Sephardic “Sunshine” Judaism

10 May
Are there any Jews in Iraq?, Neo-Nazis Strike at Thessaloniki, the Moroccan Exception, and “It Stops Now” Agreement Signing

3 May
Libyan Holocaust Survivor, Righteous Azerbaijani Muslim Saved Persian Jews, and Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s Remarkable Statement on Hatred & Education

2 May
Special Yom HaShoah Edition: Nazism in Iraq, North Africa and the Holocaust, Greece’s Pre-Holocaust Jewish Life, and Honoring Holocaust-era Heroism

19 April
Pesach Alegre! A Sephardi Sage’s Timely Thoughts on The Festival of Freedom

12 April
Rishon LeZion Cancels Passover Chumrot, Haroset Goes Global, and How to Make Authentic Matzah

5 April
No Kitniyot/ a Fiddle Stick!, Jews and North African Music, and Discover Hawaij

29 March
A Jewish Shrine in a Mosque, Growing-up Jewish in Modern Iraq, and Israeli Sisters Sing a Sweet Yemenite Rain Song

22 March
Mournful Purim on Mallorca, Esther’s Strength, Persia & Purim, and a Halabi Purim Piyyut

15 March
From Tel Aviv to Tel Afar, an Iraqi in Israel, and Iraq n’Roll

8 March
Israel’s Secret Sephardi Founders, Chabad’s Rescue of Iranian-Jewish Children, and Ofra Haza’s Classic Im Nin’Alu

1 March
Manhattan’s Sold-Out 2nd International Ladino Day, Iraqi-Jewish Anti-Semitism Special Envoy, NY Film World’s Sephardic Success Story, & MENA Funk

22 February
40 Years After: Why Jews Stay in Iran, Perpetuating the Judeo-Persian Musical Tradition, and Persian-style Yigdal Elohim Hai Piyyut

15 February
Genetic Legacy of the Inquisition, Forgotten Ethiopian Jewish Rescue Attempt for European Jews, & Yemenite Shabbat Medley

8 February
Sephardi Special Envoy Appointed, Jewish Africa Conference Creates Connections, New Ethiopian Aliyah, & Ethiopian-Israeli Blues

1 February
50th Anniversary of Baghdad and Basra Hangings Edition: Sister of a Victim Speaks, Bevis Marks Memorial, and From Exile to Exodus

25 January
R’Haim Louk & Souri in Essaouira, Egypt’s Jewish Present & Future, and Home is Where the Heart Was

18 January
Hillula of the Baba Sali, Where the Jews Went, and Celebrating Sigd in Jerusalem

11 January
Fighting for MENA Jewish Memories, Inaugurating an International Study Center for Ethiopian Jewry, and Revisiting a North African Jewish Record Shop

4 January
Jewish Madagascar, Brazilian Crypto-Jews Return, and Diarna at Limmud UK

2018

28 December
From Tabriz to Albany, Testing Toledo’s Tolerance, Ancient Yemenite Customs, and Meet Ravid Kahlani

21 December
Remembering Chacham Kassin, Judaism’s Pre-Renaissance Man, and the Syrian Sephardi Community

14 December
Special Indian Edition: 450th Paradesi Synagogue Anniversary, The Jews are Back!, and Celebration in Kochi

7 December
The Hitch who Stole Hanukkah, the Long-History of a Little Fritter, and Jerusalem-Style Iraqi Hanukkah Piyyut

30 November
Spanish or Portuguese Sephardic Citizenship, Exploring Jewish Curaçao, and Fez’s Ibn Danan Synagogue

23 November
On Wings of Eagles, Bosnian Ladino’s Surprising Saviors, and a Piyyut for Giving Thanks (and Turkeys)

21 November
Covenant and Cornucopia: A Classic Sephardi Thanksgiving

16 November
The House of Memory, Saving Sephardic Spiritual Treasures, and Meet the Libyans

9 November
Special Sigd Edition: Ethiopian-Israeli Music Scene, From Refugee to Diplomat, and Esther Rada’s R&B

2 November
Essaouira’s 15th Andalusian Atlantic Festival, Barbados’ Sephardi Roots, and Bukhari Babylonian-Andalusian Piyyut

26 October
Moroccan-Style Baqqashot for VaYera, Tragedy of Rhodes Jews, and Moroccan Agreement with Holocaust Museum

19 October
Moroccan King’s Remarkable Statement, An Underappreciated Sephardi Hakham, and the Oud’s Healing Powers

12 October
World’s First Ladino Pop Album, Rescued from Rio’s Flames, Last Link to Crete, and Meet Moti Taka

5 October
Sephardi Spinach in the Times, American Sephardi Music Festival in JPost, and the Call of the (Ladino) Brunette

28 September
When Life Hands You Moroccan Etrogim, Iraqis Risk Imprisonment to Connect with Jews, and Yemenite Simchat Torah Piyyut

21 September
Against the Inquisition, Dressing the Diaspora, and Afghani Sukkot Piyyut

14 September
Texting and Teshuva: Classic Sephardic Teachings on The Days of Awe

07 September
Moroccan Couscous in NYC, Farwell to Morocco’s Chief Rabbi, and Ya Ribbon Olam

31 August
El Paso’s Crypto-Jews, Continuity, Persian Style, and the Queen of Roses

24 August
An Homage to Filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi, Multi-Sensory Yemenite Exhibit, and Mushroom Moussaka Recipe

17 August
A 20th-Century Sephardic Sage, Remembering Al Gindi’s Righteousness, and The Syrian Jewish Community at the 21st NYSJFF

10 August
New Moroccan Jewish Museum in Fez, ASF Moroccan Filmmaker in Israel, and Another Day, Another Drachma

3 August
Sephardim Making It in Manhattan, Musical Match Made in Brooklyn, and Yemeni Sound of Silence 

27 July
Measuring the Moroccan Diaspora, A Story from the Iraqi Jewish Archive, and Sephardic Pepper Recipe

20 July
Reclaiming Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, the Origins of Amba, and By the Rivers of Babylon

13 July
Sephardic Seattle’s CodFather, Vital Moroccan-Jewish Memories, Yemenite-Israeli Revival, & Offering Praise at Jerusalem’s International Oud Festival

06 July
An Ottoman-Sephardi Gatsby, Saadia Gaon in Afghanistan, and Lag B’Omer on Djerba

29 June
Special July 4th Edition: Star-Spangled Piyyut, Emma Lazarus, Sephardic Korean War Veteran, Grace Sexias, American’s 1st Synagogue, & Francis Salvador

22 June
Moroccan Jews on the BBC, Iraqi Jews and Arabs Re-Connecting, and Yemen Blues’ Jat Mahibathi

15 June
ASF Marches in Israel Day Parade, Jerusalem Hamsa Exhibit, an Under-Appreciated Moroccan Posek, and Inclusive Shabbat Dinners

8 June
Addictive Sicilian Sephardi Chicken, Ethiopian-Ukrainian Singer, and Jackie Elkayyam’s El Adon

1 June
Spanish Royal Academy Embraces Ladino, Morocco’s Imams Study Jewish Culture, and a Moroccan-Sephardi Recipe for Ramadan

25 May
Iraqi Jewish Memories, Musical ISIS or the Mizrahi Moment, and a Mechora Sefaradi Sheli

18 May
Sudanese Spy Resort, Syrian Shavuot Story, and Iraqi Shavuot Piyyut

11 May
Bahrain’s Jewish “Mother to All,” 4th Greek Jewish Festival, and Yerushalayim Ashrekh

4 May
Moroccan Princess Marks Abuhatziera Hillula, Mexico’s Middle Eastern Jews, and Moroccan Piyyut for Lag B’Omer

27 April
Reviving Iraqi Maqam, Recognizing Middle Eastern Classical Music, and A Happy (Tunisian) HaTikvah

20 April
Emma Lazarus’ Sephardic Return, French Jews Re-Connect with Arabic Roots, and NYC’s Most Flavorful and Musical Mimouna

13 April
Saudi Gazette Features Forgotten Jews, Honoring America’s First Synagogue, and Ladino Had Gadya 

5 April
Special Mimouna Edition 

29 March
A Sephardi Sage’s Timely Thoughts on The Festival of Freedom

23 March
Top Ten Sephardi Films, Brave Miss World Interview, Iraqi Jewish Archive as a Bridge, and Syrian Had Gadya in Arabic

12 March
Southwestern Crypto-Judaism: Fighting Opprobrium and Erasure

11 March
Sarajevo Haggadah, Portuguese Citizenship, and Rock in the Red Zone

8 March
Special Mexican Night at the 21st NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

2 March
Jewish Spirits at Moroccan Opening Night of 21st NYSJFF, Compelling True Casablanca Story, and Toura, Toura

23 February
Six Sephardi Cities in Morocco, Macedonia’s Sephardi Heritage, and How to Make Moroccan Couscous

16 February
Algerian Jewish Holocaust Survivors Recognized, Eleven Essential Ladino Expressions, and Harissa Obsession

12 February
Continuity & Controversy: Crypto-Jews in the American Southwest

9 February
Muslims & Jews Celebrate Shashmaqam, Two Year Anniversary for Moroccan-Jewish Dinners, and a Taste of Manhattan’s 1st International Ladino Day

2 February
Anti-Semitism in France, Remembering Baghdad, and the Power of Permissibility

26 January
From Refugee to Knesset Member, Indian Jews in America, and the New Indian-Israeli Sound

19 January
Moroccan Muslims Preserve Morocco’s Jewish Holy Sites, the Passion for Moroccan Jewish Memories, and Baba Sali Piyyut

12 January
Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod Achieves Recognition, British Jews Read Bitton, and Persian Artist Preserves Esther’s Children

05 January
Special Traditions of the Syrian Sephardi Community, Restoring Egypt’s Synagogues, an Algerian-Jewish Refugee’s Love Song

2017

29 December
Manhattan School Revitalizes Classic Sephardic Tradition, Moroccan Minhagim, and a Shabbat Piyyut’s Andalusian, Algerian, and Moroccan Provenance

22 December
Restoring Kolkata’s Synagogues, Candle Lighting on Djerba, and the Spice Route

15 December
The Economist Features Andalusian Festival’s Message of Moroccan Jewish & Muslim Coexistence, Ethiopian Sounds at Hullegeb Festival, & Ocho Kandelikas

08 December
Removing the Shroud from Greek Jewish History, Retrieving Moroccan Jewish Documents, and The Jew of Malta

01 December
Remembering Iraq’s Last Jews, From Exile to Exodus, Post-1967 Jewish Life in Arab-Majority Lands, and Jewish Warrior Weekend

24 November
A Seattle Sephardi Thanksgiving, Sephardi-Israeli Jazz in Downbeat, and Sexias’ Sephardi Thanksgiving Sermon

17 November
Surviving Saddam, Sephardim Straining for Unity, and Saving the Forgotten Jews

10 November
Moroccan Model for Middle East Coexistence, Restoring the Mellah of Marrakech, and a Moroccan Filmmaker’s Memories

03 November
Keeping Ge’ez Alive, Kurdish Jewish in Israel, and Moroccan Avinu Malkeynu

27 October
Crypto-Jews, The Midnight Shofar, and Converso Comeback

20 October
Betrayal of Algerian Jews, Morocco’s Jewish Past and Future, and Shalom Bollywood

11 October
A Spanish Odyssey, Last of the Paradesi Jews, and Ashorer Shira

29 September
ASF & StandWithUs Honor Hero of Operation Magic Carpet, Dangoor Stands Against BDS, Guardian of Iraqi Jewish Memory, & Andalusian Moroccan Kol Nidrei 

15 September
Looking at Zion, Mimouna in Newsweek, Portugal’s Sneaky Life-Saving Sausage, and Tunisian-Sephardi Adon HaSelichot

08 September
Israel and Alaska Airlines Saved Yemen’s Jews, Mexico and Moral Courage at UNESCO, Sephardi Montreal, and Revivo Project’s Selichot Medley 

01 September
From Tehran to Qualcomm, 70th Anniversary of Iraqi Flight to Freedom, and Françoise Atlan’s Avinu Malkeinu

25 August
Modigliani’s Sephardi Identity, Mementos of Sephardi Exiles, Greece’s City of Ghosts, and Sephardi Selichot on Tel Aviv’s Pier

18 August
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great Fire, The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica, and Remembering the Jerusalem of the Balkans

11 August
Baghdadi Inventor of a Muslim Country, Diarna Research Expedition to Egypt, Serero Sings for Moroccan Ambassador, and Kolkota’s Jewish Architecture

04 August
Life on the Rock, Spanish Sephardi Museum, and Central Asian Tu B’Av Songs

28 July
An Island of Jewish-Muslim Friendship in New York, Ethiopian-born Jews on Life in Israel, and Adon Olam on the Charango

21 July
Salonica’s New Holocaust Museum, Island Haven for Turkey’s Jews, and Yo Era Ninya 

14 July
Rescuing Salonica’s Jewish Tombstones, Istanbul’s Once-Cosmopolitan Kuzguncuk, and Yo Menamori D’un Aire

07 July
Shalom Bollywood, Recognizing Indian Jews, and a Bombay Cantor’s Song of Freedom

30 June
Syrian Sephardi Star-Spangled Piyyut, A Sephardi American Patriot’s Passion, and Salvador’s Sacrifice for American Liberty

23 June
Laura Kadoorie School Tennis Match, A Spanish Angel at Cairo, Post-67 Persecution, and Abuhatzeira Piyyut

16 June
The Farhud Remembered, Libya’s Forgotten Jews, Syrian Food in Exile, and If the Doors are Locked

09 June
Salonica’s Rise and Fall, An Egyptian Jew in 1967, and Yemeni Jewish Rescue & Reunion

02 June
A Sephardi Family’s Escape from WWII, Exiled from Iran, Mexico & Moral Courage, and Iraqi Shavuot Piyyut

26 May
A Shavuot Story, Sephardi Pirkei Avot Tradition, and Iraqi-Kurdish Pilgrimage

19 May
Modern-Day Moses’, Greece’s Vibrant Jewish History, and Dangerous Ideas at Berkeley

12 May
Europe’s Oldest Sephardi Community, From Tehrangeles with Love, and Gibraltar’s Convivencia Tribute to Morocco 

05 May
ASF Honors Mexican Diplomat’s Moral Courage, Algeria Denies R’Enkaoua Pilgrimage, Indonesian Jews Strive to Survival, & NYSJFF Opening Night 

28 April
Special Yom HaShoah Edition: Holocaust Memories in Ladino, Moroccan King’s Moral Stand, and Professor Devin Naar’s Search for Uncle Salomon

21 April
Passover Discovery: Ethiopian Exodus Tapes, Crossing the Red Sea in Ladino, and Israelis Celebrate Mimouna

14 April
World’s Oldest Jewish Library, Atlanta’s Sephardi Synagogue, and Moroccan Shirat HaYam

07 April
Full House at NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Saving Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, The First Jewish Americans, and Moroccan-Israeli Haggadah!

31 March
Lebanon’s Forgotten Jews, Culture-Driven Development in Morocco, and an LA Ladino Chorus Commemorates Passover

24 March
Greek Citizenship, Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, 100th Anniversary for Detroit Sephardim, and Enrico Macias’ Ya Rayeh!

17 March
André Azoulay to Receive ASF Pomegranate Award, Spanish Jews Seeking Ibn Shushan, Salon-Style Sephardic Plays in LA, and Elkayam at Essouira Festival

10 March
20th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Brazilian Anousim, and Moroccan Esta Noche de Purim

03 March
Sephardic History Under Siege, Reclaiming Judeo-Spanish, and Purim Piyyutim

24 February
Sudanese Stories, Snake Rabbi’s Hillula, and The British Library’s Judeo-Persian Bibles

17 February
Stars over Morocco, Reviving Egypt’s Jewish History, and Ladino Concert in Spain

10 February
Sephardi Statue of Liberty, Persian Jews in the Land of the Free, Saving Seattle’s Ladino Legacy

03 February
Mosul’s Synagogues after ISIS, Chasing Challah in Mumbai, David Serero Sings Adio Querida for Portugal’s President

27 January
Sephardic Stories from Salonica, Shanghai, and Suriname

20 January
Border State Crypto-Jews, Moroccans Regret Jewish Emigration, and 16th Century Piyyut

13 January
LA’s Sephardi Past, Spanish Judaism in the Inquisition and New World, and Sephardi Atlantic Stories

06 January
Argentina’s Sephardim Look to Spain, El Mellah of Marrakech, and Revivo Project’s New Shabbat Medley

2016

30 December
Hidden Sephardi Hanukkah History in Spanish Foods, Sephardi Sources for Hanukkah Heroes, and Hillula of Moroccan Jewish Saint Buried in Egypt

23 December
Moroccan King Inaugurates Synagogue, Mexican Converso Diary, Egypt’s Crumbling Synagogues, and Moroccan Ma’oz Tzur

16 December
Flory’s Balkan Sephardi Flame, Hacham Ovadia’s Ethiopian Ruling, The Sephardic Book of Why, and Yemenite-Israeli Singer Remembered

09 December
35 Jews in Kastoria, A Sephardi in Israel’s Foreign Service, and Diarna Tour of Tighedouine, Morocco

02 December
The Sephardi World Weekly Remembers Greater Sephardic Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: A Special 30 November Edition

25 November
Persian-Jewish Philanthropist, Moroccan-Israeli Singer Celebrates Her Heritage, and Thanksgiving Piyyut

18 November
Santa Ana’s Hidden Sephardim, Shah Nasser e-Din’s Gift to his Jewish Doctor, Israel’s Persian Radio Show, and Persian-style Piyyut

11 November
Sephardic Communities in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece

04 November
Jerusalem is Home, Spanish Ghost Towns, Turkish Jewry in Decline, and Moroccan Baqashot

28 October
Escaping Iran, Baghdadi Synagogue in Mumbai, Bukharan Mutual Aid, and Darbuka and Oud-Infused Tehillim/Psalms 104

21 October
Salonica’s Stolpersteine, Egyptian Sephardi Stars, Brooklyn Syrian Sephardi Artist at Jerusalem, and Iraqi Sukkot Piyyut

14 October
Kol Nidre in Tunis, Bitton’s Radical Report, Moroccan Lemons for Sukkot, and Rocking El Nora Alila

07 October
Barefoot Iraqi Slichot, Halabi Israelis Condemn Assad, Tributes for Tunisian Rabbi, An American Jew in Kurdistan, and Yom Kippur Piyyutim

30 September
Crossing the Bosphorus, President of Portugal Visits ASF, Untangling the Tale of a Thessaloniki Orphan, & 100th Anniversary of Sephardic Brotherhood

23 September
Yemeni-Israeli Sisters in Vogue, Rhodes Paradise Lost, Recipe Saved, and Rosh HaShanah Selichot

16 September
Lower East Side Sephardic Story, Last of Calcutta’s Baghdadi Jews, and Remembering Cochin

09 September
Syrian Sephardic Community Continuity, Egypt Preserving Jewish Antiquities, and Yemeni Adon HaSlihot

02 September
Amazonian Jews, Israel’s Iraqi Defense Minister, Ethiopian Story in Israeli Schools, and Moroccan Yedid Nefesh

26 August
Fleeing from Syria, Revisiting Heskel House in Baghdad, Writing Judeo-Persian in LA, Remembering Jewish Life in Salonika, & Indian-Israeli Music Video

19 August
Joseph Aboudi’s Heroism, Diarna Situation Room, Spanish Inquisition in the New World, and Shabbat Piyyut

12 August
Baghdad’s House of Dreams Destroyed, Jews of Jamaica, Spanish Citizenship for 220 Sephardim, Eicha Reading, and Nabucco Reviewed

05 August
Last Six Egyptian Jews, Ben Ish Chai Sefer Rescued from Saddam’s Secret Service, Mysterious Mistake-filled English Siddur

29 July
Yemeni Jews on Alaska Airlines, Israeli Ex-Pats in Morocco, Portuguese House Commemorates Inquisition, and R’ Haim Louk Three Weeks Piyyut

22 July
Turkish Ladino Music, Libyan Holocaust, Lone Indian Jewish Rabbi, and Esim Ensemble

15 July
Special Edition: Sephardi Shakeup of Israel’s School Curriculum

08 July
Sephardi Sisters’ Spanish Citizenship, Sephardi Shakespeare, Studying Silabrios, and O, Barcelona

01 July
Azerbaijan’s Jewish Revival, Morocco’s Jewish Art, Tunisia’s Last Young Jews, and Dagestani-Israeli Video of the Week

24 June
Sephardi Othello, Prophet Nahum Endures, Rare Spanish-Jewish Pottery Portrait, and Indian-Jewish Shabbat Piyyut

17 June
From Spain to Salonika, Ladino’s Last Words, Indian Jews in Israel, and Born in Alamo

10 June
On the Road to Zion, Fun Moroccan Forum and Festival, Sephardi Pirkei Avot, and Turkey’s Secret Medieval Messianics Survive

03 June
Farhud Remembered, Babylonian Jewish Revival, Iraq N’ Roll, Tunisia’s Lag b’Omer Battle for Tolerance, and a Syrian-Sephardi Voice

27 May
Greek Jewish Festival, Synagogues Restored in Salonica and Destroyed in Damascus, Israeli-Greek Music, and A Morocco-Sephardi Othello

20 May
Tickling the Ivory in Tunisia, Bene Israel Confirm Jewish Genetics, and Zion Golan Celebrates R’Shabazi

13 May
Moroccan Jews Protest UN, Yom HaShoah in Iraqi-Kurdish Capital, and Synagogue Reconstruction at Crete

06 May
Remembering Yom HaShoah in Sephardi Lands, Baghdadi Heritage in Israel and India, and Passover as an Indian Festival of Freedom

28 April
Israeli Mimouna, Syrian 7th Day of Passover Song, Origins of Sephardi Had Gadya, and Music from the Motherland

22 April
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, Soy Sefardi, and Musta’Arab Passover Piyyut

15 April
Portuguese Holocaust Hero, A Moroccan Man’s Broad-Minded Mission, Tasty Tunisia/Libyan Tradition, and Ladino Had Gadya

08 April
A New Mom’s Ladino Music, Yemeni-Israeli Jewish Stories, Ethiopian Orphan Miss Israel, and Bukhari Kadesh Urchatz

1 April
Renowned Iraqi Sculptor, Kuwaiti Singer Opens Sephardic Festival, Rare Ethiopian Torah Scroll, and Passover Piyyut

25 March
Revealing Esther’s Secret, Rescuing Yemeni Jews, Reviving Sephardi Synagogues, and Realizing a Mizrahi Culture War

18 March
Watch Ema Shah’s Pomegranate Award Performance, The Sephardic Reach in Film, and Shabbat in Tehran

11 March
Kuwaiti Star Honored at Sephardic Film Festival, Photos from Opening Night, and Rawalpindi’s Lost Jewish History

4 March
Paying Vocal Homage to His Roots, Rabbi Playing the Oud, and Bollywood’s Jews

26 February
First for Spanish Citizenship, Iraqi Jewish Structure Survives as Shia Shrine, Harvard Fellowship for Hidary, and NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

19 February
Gad Elmaleh’s Sephardi humor, Devin Naar’s New Sephardic Studies Chair, Seattle’s Sephardi Refugee Rabbi, and Neta Elkayam’s New Andalussi Song

12 February
Flory’s Flame, Midnight Orchestra at 19th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Mizrahi Education in Israel, Caribbean Jews, and Abuhatzeira Piyyut

5 February
Ladino Language Legitimacy, Tel Aviv’s Syrian Artisans, Egyptian Memories, and Yemenite Piyyut

29 January
King Mohammed VI on Moroccan Co-Existence, Sushi Summit for American Jews and Moroccan Professionals, and an Andalusian Piyyut by R’Haim Louk

22 January
India’s Greatest Jewish War Hero, Sethu Remembers Jewish Friends, Bombay Chazzan’s Song of Freedom, and Indian-Jewish Genetics

15 January
Sephardic Journeys in Google Cultural Institute, Sephardi American Patriotism, Israel’s Culinary Revolution, and Istanbul Synagogue Reopens

8 January
Through the Eyes of an Anatolian Sephardic Woman, Egyptian Enlightenment, and Raphy ElMaleh, Morocco’s Only Jewish Tour Guide

1 January
Ladino’s Last Words in Turkey, Turkish Island Delight, Once upon a time in Ankara, and Ladino Song of the Week

2015

25 December
British Museum’s Egyptian Jews, Sephardi Author’s Tunisian Prize, and Iraqi Motza’ei Shabbat Piyyut

18 December 2015
Sephardic Sources for Chanukkah Heroes, Israel’s Herculean Rescue of Ethiopian Jews, and the Unlikely, Provocative Origins of some Piyyutim

11 December
A Happy Tunisian Hatikvah, Mahia Menorah, Sephardi Chanukkah Foods, Bollywood’s Baghdadis and Bene Israel, and Bukhari Ma’oz Tsur

4 December
Spain’s King Welcomes Sephardim, Sudan’s Last Jews, and Letters from Shanghai

27 November
Iraqi Coca-Cola a Symbol of Coexistence, Israel Commemorates Mizrahi Experience, Ethiopian Jewish Refugees, and Special Sephardi Thanksgiving Sermon

20 November
Sounds of the Oud, Iranian-Israeli Film, Turkish Crypto-Jews, and Moroccan Museum a Model for Coexistence

13 November
A Sephardic Man of Honor, Last Jews of Spain, and Knesset Reconnects with Anousim

6 November
How Iraqi-Jews Became Strangers, Judeo-Persian Women Painters, Sephardi Lives, and an Atlas Mountain Piyyut

30 October
Cairo-Born Israeli Bridal Fashionista, Fish & Chips’ Sephardi Origins, Azerbaijan’s Jew-Loving Muslims, and Piyyut of the Week

23 October
Judeo-Arabic Blessings and Curses, Baghdad Mystery, and Bangladeshi Jews

16 October
Lost Rhodian Paradise, Last Jews of Cairo, Singapore’s Jewish Crown Jewel, and My Heart is in the East Piyyut

9 October
Fleeing the Hijab, Shanghai Ghetto, Magrebi Etrogim, and Yemenite Shabbat Piyyut

2 October
Latino Jews, Celebrating in Cairo, Invitation to Istanbul, and Museum of Moroccan Judaism

25 September
Georgia on Israeli Minds, Moroccan Etrogim, Seattle’s Sephardi Printer, and Piyyut for Sukkah

18 September
Shofar Blowing in Cairo, Rosh HaShanah in Tunisia, and The Sephardi Report Launch Party

11 September
Returning to Rhodes, Kuwaitis Remember Lebanese-Jewish Golden Age, and Rosh HaShanah Piyyut

4 September
Curaçao’s Sephardi Paradise, Spain’s Second Most Visited Museum, and Israel’s Mizrahi Happiness Revolution

28 August
A Moroccan Jew Saves Sex Slaves from ISIS, World’s Largest Ladino Library & Museum, Judeo-Persian Language and Literature, and American Sephardi Blues

21 August
An Egyptian Sports Club’s Sephardi Founder, India’s Proud Jewish History, and the Waning of Yemenite Women Wailing in Israel

14 August
Reviving Ladino, French Resistance, and Tunisia’s Jewish House of Remembrance

7 August
Spanish Citizenship Symbolism, Morocco’s Blue City, and Greece’s City of Ghosts

31 July
Moroccan Artist Censored, Saving Damascus’ Jewish Culture, Iran’s Vacant Embassy… in Israel, and Yemeni Tu B’AV Piyyut

24 July
Seattle Sephardim React to Spanish Citizenship, Sephardic Genetic Testing, Spanish- Moroccan Kinah, and Chicago Defender in Israel

17 July
France’s Cop from Constantine, Old Baghdad’s Jewish Ghosts, and Beta Israel’s Ancient Jewish Roots

3 July
A Sephardi-American Patriot’s Passion, Jews “Hot,” Brotherhood “Not” in Middle East, and America’s Oldest Synagogue

26 June
A Sephardi Shylock, Egypt’s Jewish Ramadan TV Series, and Renaming Spain’s Castrillo Matajudíos (Camp Kill-Jews)

9 June
Spanish Citizenship for Sephardim, ISIS Threatens Shavout Shrine, and Libyan Jews

29 May
ISIS Threatens Jewels of Jewish Past, An Argentine “Adon Olam,” and Reversing the Spanish Expulsion

15 May
Brooklyn’s Sephardi Bibliophile, Yemeni-Israeli Book Prize Winner, and Egypt’s Multi-Everything Past

8 May
Sarajevo’s Baby Boom, Iran’s Jewish “Golden Age,” and Judeo-Argentinean Stew

24 April
Shalom Singapore, New Iranian-Jewish American Film, and Preserving a Portuguese Synagogue

17 April
Yom HaShoah Edition: Algerian-Jewish Resistance, Moroccan Vichy Camps, and a Libyan Survivor Remembers

9 April
Sephardi Ancestry Bill, Bamboo Seder Soup, Spanish-Moroccan Had Gadya

3 April
Passover is at hand! Erez Bitton’s Israel Prize, Babylonian Jewish Entrepreneurs, and Moroccan Synagogue Renewal

27 March
The New Yemeni-Israeli Sound, Homecoming for Catalonian Haggadot, and Preserving Morocco’s Audio Heritage

20 March
A Happy Bulgarian Anniversary, Coexistence in France, and NYSJFF Film Reviews

13 March
Waiting for Spain, Sephardim in Ottawa, and Saturday Night’s Film

6 March
Inspired by Esther, Algeria’s Missing Jews, and Purim Surprises

27 February
Yemeni Jews Endangered, Turkish Jews Eyeing Spanish Exit, and Hamilton’s Sephardi Schooling

20 February
ISIS Seizes Tomb of Ezra, Last Jews of Yemen and Djerba, and Danish Sephardi Medieval Mintmasters

13 February
Breaking Salonica’s Silence, Uncovering Conversos, and French Jews en Israël

6 February
Jewish-Algerian Heroes of the Holocaust, A Jewish Caribbean Jewel, and Making Syrian Bamia

30 January
Counting Stars for Spanish Citizenship, Iraqis Sing for Tu B’Shvat, Judeo-Persian Women Writers, and Morocco’s Lost Jews

23 January
Coveting Yemeni Jewish Jewelry, Sephardi Lives Reviewed, Back to Bukhara… in Queens, and Harlem’s Ethiopian Jewish Cuisine

16 January
Jérusalem est Charlie, ASF on Voice of Israel, and the Clandestine Flight of 100 Iraqi Jews

9 January
Saddam Hussein’s Pomegranate Juice Ink Torah Scroll, Mobilizing Persian Jewish Americans, and Djerba: A Sephardi Travel Destination

2 January
The Unlikely Phrase that Saved Persian Jews, Cooking in Tehrangeles, Saving Karachi’s Jewish Cemetery, and a Kuwaiti Muslim’s Chanukkah

2014

26 December
Chasing Iraqi-Jewish Shadows, Moroccan Maoz Tzur, and Creating New Jewish World Music

19 December
Chanukkah in Iran, Hong Kong’s Iraqi Jewish Entrepreneurs, and New Dehli’s Minyan Troubles

5 December
Sephardi World Weekly: A Yemeni Minister’s Courage, Maghrabi Brotherly Love, and Indian Food

28 November
A Sephardi Thanksgiving Sermon, Remembering Jewish Zamora, and Morocco’s Hidden Jewish History

21 November
Jews in Arab Fiction, an Iranian-Israeli Hero, and Judeo-Persian Manuscripts

14 November
Jewish Henna, Salonika Remembers, and Celebrating Sigd

7 November
Mimouna’s Moroccan Jewish Caravan, Persians in LA, A Syrian Recipe, and the Roots of Andalusian Music

31 October
Cochin’s Last Jews, Lebanon’s Jewish Revival, a Tribute to North Africa’s Jewish Artists