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When do you say Birkath HaLebanáh?

Irma Lopes Cardozo-Robles de Medina 1924-2016In 2008, I was introduced to Mrs. Cardozo-Robles de Medina by R’Ira Rodhes. I had just moved to New Jersey and wanted to connect with the Spanish-Portuguese community in New York. I remember that Shabbath in September when I met her. R’Rodhes told her that I was a fellow Sepharadi with roots in Curação. She was elated to know that I was active on behalf...

Since I am researching on the legal (moral) discourse [if such a thing existed] of the 17th century Portuguese Hakhamim of Ess Hayyim, on the African slave trade, I would like to share this excerpt: The substance of this law is that we use Canaanite servants (slaves), and that we do not grant them freedom, unless his master damages one of his/her teeth, eye, or another similar body part, then he i...

Anyone going to this event?

Anybody else use coconut and cinnamon for their haroset?

Davis, Darnell. Notes on the History of the Jews of Barbados. “…I presume, from Holland, when our trade in a manner centered there, and I have always unerstood that the bulk of them were of Portuguese origin; which is the highest order among them; and who in London, neither unite in the same synagogue or burial grounds; here, however, they must coalesce, from paucity of numbers” (Davis 129).

NÃO PERCA: Edição de Lançamento - Revista Hazaqá A Revista dos Judeus Hispano-Portugueses no Brasil.Ano 1 - Número 1 (Março 2016)Para visualizar online, clique aqui:https://www.yumpu.com/pt/embed/view/p3agmlWZskRK0rNDPara baixar em formato PDF, clique aqui:http://hazaqa.org/2016/02/26/ano-1-numero-1/

SELIHOTHLos judíos acostumbramos decir selihoth a partir de la salida de Rosh Hodesh Elul hasta la víspera de Yom haKippurim. Gustaría explicar el origen de esta tradición.De primera, es interesante notar que Rambam no codifica cosa alguna en la Mishnéh Toráh sobre esta costumbre.Por otro lado, Maran Shulhan 'Arukh (Yosef Caro) codifica en Orah Hayyim, simán 581, en el nombre del Tur (Ya'aqob ben ...

ISAAC DE MATTATHIAS ABOABNació en 1631 en Holanda y murió en 1707. Su padre había nacido en Oporto, Portugal con el nombre de Manuel Días Henriques. Después de haberse escapado de la inquisición en México, volvió a la prática de la Toráh abiertamente en Holanda, cuando adopta el nombre de Mattathías Aboab (1626), siendo un descendiente del gran Hakham Isaac Aboab II. Su hijo Isaac era un comercian...

ISAAC ABENDANA Nació en España en 1640. Fue llevado a una edad temprana a Hamburgo, donde hizo sus estudios rabínicos y luego se fue a Holanda donde estudió medicina. En 1662 se mudó a Inglaterra antes de su hermano Jacob donde enseñó hebreo en la Universidad de Cambridge. Él vendió libros a la biblioteca de Bodleian en Oxford. Luego en 1689, tomó una posición como docente en el Colegio Magdalen. ...

I'm searching for records on Ana DaCosta (Gomes) who migrated from Curação in the early 1800s to Hispaniola (modern-day Dominican Republic). The records in D.R. say that she came from Curação and was married to Agustín Correia. Anybody have anything at hand on this person? Perhaps from Precious Stones of the Jews of Curação.

I'm searching for records on Ana DaCosta who migrated from Curação in the early 1800s to Hispaniola (modern-day Dominican Republic). Anybody have anything at hand on this person?