Seth Haberman

My Heart My Heart...

How many Congregations still recite the explication of the Haftorah in Spanish?

The Black Torah

Shearith Israel Tisha B'Av

Ok, I know this is somewhat off topic, however, apparently Steve E. de Souza is a practicing Jew who touts his Spanish and Portuguese heritage. His father was H. Walton Henriques de Souza. For those not immersed in popular culture he is the writer among other things of 48 Hours, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Hudson Hawk, and the memorable Lara Croft Tomb Raider. His family came from Jamaica.n 2004, de...

The 1941 Pool Siddur is available online. It's claimed that it's out of copyright which I believe not to be the case as it's been republished multiple times including within the last 18 years. Perhaps the publisher failed to renew the copyright. There is also a full-text download, though I can't quite make out the digital pattern. I think it's confused when it's expecting Hebrew and finds English...

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Saw this interesting post by David GoldmanYou can't adapt "Don Giovanni" to the 20th century. Between 1630 when Tirso de Molina wrote "The Trickster of Seville" and the turn of the 19th century, no fewer than 1,700 published versions of the story appeared. Tirso came from a converso family, and his play is actually a Jewish joke: If you can repent and be saved at any given instant, why not continu...

Two Questions.1) Why do we have two groups called "The Foundation for the Preservation...." and can't we merge them or is this a schism?2) Oreste Pinto - Jew or Not a Jew?

Is this well known?

I thought this was interesting enough to pass on:

I'd previously never heard about Moses Ezekiel though I always had a thing for the phrase "victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni." I don't subscribe to his sentiments, but it's very interesting. (And yes there is a Western Sephardic connection.)http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/anderson-address.htm

Anyone planning to see this exhibit?

Thought this would be of interest to the group. In contrast to the German Jews wanting to be like Sephardim mentioned in this article, at Shearith Israel we've always built new-classical sanctuaries to emphasize our Western heritage.

Is Oliver Hart the Noble Prize winner for Economics a Western Sephardic Jew?

Any recommendations for Rosh Hashannah reading?

The latest from Rabbi Angel - https://www.jewishideas.org/rabbi-marc-d-angel/rabbi-dr-david-de-sola-pool-sephardic-visionary-and-activist

Fascinating study of the great Katzellenbogen line and their Sephardic genealogy -

why is this so enjoyable?

More S&P's who need to be ingathered. A little more effort might be required in this instance.

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Does anyone know much about this project? Is it worth funding?

An old lineup card I found from Rosh Hashana 5733 from Congregation Shearith Israel. Zachary Edinger Arnie T Goldfarb Benjamin Freilich

http://www.timesofisrael.com/sharansky-israel-must-ease-conversion-for-crypto-jews/

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/10/the-last-jews-of-cuba/409978/