David Ramirez

Has anyone done research what type of breads for Shabbat were used in our Western Sephardic Communities before the braided Germanic brioche (whose ancient origins are hair-raising) was adopted from the Ashkenazim? My family custom was to use the same as the one as what once used by Italian Sephardim, as confirmed by Catriel Ceballos

#KippotFreeZone 1957 or 1958 meeting of the board of Parnassim of the Portuguese Jewish Congregation. Standing: Jacques Pais, secretary of the congregation. Seated from left to right: David Lopes Cardozo, parnas; Maurits Cohen Paraira, board treasurer; Eliazar Rodrigues Pereira, board president; M.S. Vaz Dias, honorary secretary; Jacques Zacharia Baruch, member.h/t H. Jacob de Oliveira

An event I helped organize for Emory University's Office of Research Administration Social Justice Working Group. Thank you Hakham [Yehonatán Elazar-DeMota](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066646571130&__cft__[0]=AZXs_l1Z3DvdRFIfQSycsQEskszdkfdf7FbtJgWPCGS1no48_SIbg9qldwLwah3iGkUFumqD2PvPePLttL-LydVTEuAEqn1iFdFGJTaAfYQeg2DGGd9n0_K4-nHffvOJER2fgFSs07vKDjSZWfwHuqxhjf3aNWxLEbxuszwhyaXN9g&_...

Les comparto mi traducción de la Haggadáh acorde a la tradición hispanoportuguesa, edición Rev. David de Sola Pool. Si lo imprimen por ambos lados, pueden unirlo con dos grapas por en medio y se forma el librito.Feliz Pascua de Cenceñas!

"The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the interactions of Jews with outside culture and the impact of state reforms on the corporate Jewish co...

I have not read this book, but it looks quite interesting and highly informative."This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews...

Hishqi Hizqi by native S&P composer Abraham Cáceres, for the consecration of the Q"Q Talmud Toráh in 1675. #Gravidadehttps://youtu.be/Spy1sSVBWy0

Not sure if this has been posted, [https://www.jewishideas.org/sephardic-holiday-cooking-gilda-angel](https://www.jewishideas.org/sephardic-holiday-cooking-gilda-angel)

At the Western Sephardic Debate group, William Jeuda De Oliveira proposed a great idea, which is to create vector graphics of Sephardic symbology to be uploaded for free on the Internet. These graphics could then be used for marketing material. I have a cousin who is a computer graphic artist, and I probably can convince him to create them. Please post below images of Western or Oriental Sephardic...

https://www.cjnews.com/featured/jewish-learning/how-abraham-de-sola-changed-the-course-of-canadian-jewish-history

Piznom for the end of the Shabbat Shacharit service: Adón 'Olam (Hebrew and English)

Pizmon to be sung after the Birkat haMazón

Pizmon sung before Birkat haMazón (After meal prayer)

Pizmon for after Habdalá: Ya vendrá

Pizmon for after Habdalá: Buena Semana

Question for Jews of Western/Eastern Sephardic ancestry: When visiting another synagogue, have you been asked or toldA) Are you Jewish?B) You don't look JewishC) "Dias" (e.g.), that does not sound Jewish

Esnogeiros en Amsterdama

For those who want to discuss controversial subjects, such as 'Anusim', Zionism, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi differences, etc. you're welcome to add yourself to Western Sephardic Debate https://www.facebook.com/groups/219308094782211/Message from its Administrator: This group is an offshoot of "The Foundation for the Preservation of Western Sephardi Tradition and does *not* replace it. This group is in...

For those who like to read an educate themselves on the main difference between Sephardic and Ashkenazic poseqim. Catriel Ceballos Catger

Persisting on the ShadowsReview of Schulamith Halevy’s Doctoral Thesis on Conversos Neoleoneses

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41482274?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=NPGWkLdKqNIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=la+vara+de+jud%C3%A1&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Does anybody know if SI archives its bulletins?

https://www.academia.edu/4135755/La_tradici%C3%B3n_po%C3%A9tica_y_musical_judeoportuguesa_de_Amsterdam._Informe_de_la_documentaci%C3%B3n

https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=gm300MDgH6QC&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&dq=sephardic+ya+vendra+el+senor&source=bl&ots=DL0dIxnTCe&sig=jtYe5REqoi2BmXo_vLpO9g9q4JE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAmoVChMIxJ_s2sKvyAIVCjI-Ch1G_wMG#v=onepage&q&f=false