William Jeuda De Oliveira

Looking for recordings of Mishna and Gemara recital. Anything, including Bamme madliqin, haggada, etc.

Did anybody by any chance copy the updated list of online WS works that I posted on the WS forum?

Lately we had some interesting contributions here about WS history, and interesting conversations.In the last few weeks, only one time a discussion got a bit out of hand, and was settled quickly.Still I am getting complaints that the group is not run as it should and people are reluctant to participate and contribute. Is this true? Can it be fixed?

Gazeta De Amsterdam in NIW

Trying to put Sephardic history in the Netherlands -literally- on the map.

"Museum/Art Gallery" :-(

סֻכּוֹת בַּפַּשְׁתֵּל מִבְּשַׂר עֶגֶלדַּק דַּק בֵּין בָּצֵק תָּשִׂימוֹ אִם תִּרְצֶה גַּם עוֹד לָרִים דֶּגֶלמִתַּפּוּחִים הָכֵן עִמוֹלָשוּם אֵשׁ לָשׂוּם אֵש לֹא תֶחְדַּליַקְרִים יִגְדַּל: יַקְרִים יִגְדַּל

Any sources for etrog preference among Western Sepharaddim? Was any specific type prefered? What about color? Was the halakha on the "dad" followed?

If they can do something like this, is there a good reason we can't? (I'm not even expecting something as fancy as this...)

We need more suggestions to help Western Sepharaddim to be less ignorant about their own traditions.Not talking about just Hazzanuth and Synagogue customs, but the whole package.

Any members here familiar with the community in Montreal? Shoshana? According to an eyewitness acount of someone from Amsterdam (2008) the service was "exactly like in Amsterdam". Having visited myself (but not for a service) I find it hard to believe.According to what I was told there there is nothing left of the original S&P nosah/customs.

I might start regularly using this blog for short book reviews:

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I might be visiting Hamburg and Copenhagen soon. I would like to know of any physical reminders of Sephardic presence in both cities. (former synagogue buildings, other buildings, cemeteries, etc.)

People have been talking about preserving tophats and tailcoats. I say never mind that modern stuff. The tophat is the baseballcap of the last century. This is what real Homens da Nação look like: ;)

Thank God for the WSDebate forum! If all the heated -and sometimes not-so-civil- debates can be held there, this group can stay wonderfull as it has been lately! :)http://www.facebook.com/groups/219308094782211/

I was reading this book over Sabba. She brings some interesting data, but the very beginning of her analysis is so wrong, that I feel like putting the book down. It is evident that the writer is completely clueless about Judaism and Jewish identity (especially the Sephardic variant)First she keeps asking a question that looks like a joke to me, she wonders why they decided to establish a Jewish co...

Anybody read this? All historians I have seen describe Pharar, describe him from a typical Ashkenazi perspective. Something needs to be done about that, as he was very important in preserving the authentic Sephardic tradition in the early Amsterdam community. He deserves a lot more credit than he gets.

Portugal meets Italy: the Sephardic Communities of the Diaspora on Italian Soil (1496-1600)

Forwarded to me by Joshua De Sola Mendes. A lot of the content at the Primo Levi Center deals with the Portuguese Jews of Livorno.

Looking for info on the history of the Portuguese Community of Antwerp. I have books on the Conversos there in the 16th century, but nothing of the established community.

Keter Shem Tob on the custom of spilling wine during the makkoth. He explains how the custom came from Ashkenaz to Eres Israel, and in his time hadn't arrived in Amsterdam and London yet. (He was happy about it as he calls it a "hazaya")

I want to know more about the old traditions from places like Venice, Rome, Bordeaux, Jamaica, Panama, etc.Sometimes the discussions are too Amsterdam-London-NYC-centric IMHO.

Apparently I am not the right person to run this group. Ashley Perry and Uriel Milo do you want to take over?

Is there any subject we can discuss that is not controversial?