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I have just placed this on another Jewish DNA site, and I copy it here....it is extremely important to me, if you have previously read my history and some of you kindly suggested gedmatch to me...so this is what I wrote in the hope of finding something about my parentage..I have finally uploaded my 23andme information to Gedmatch. Problem is I do not understand anything that I have found so far. I...

I must share this with you. This is a presentation made by Haïm Mazar. I found it on Google one day by searching for my Behar family. We started a conversation and one thing leading to another, i realize I could link his tree to someone else's tree. I hope to connect mine to theirs at some point! Coming from Yambol and Sliven, small jewish communities in Bulgaria, I suspect that we are all connec...

For those whose interest in their Sephardi heritage is more than just genealogical this will be welcome news. I post this for information, not for discussion if the admins would like to block comments.

THIS is what prayer to the Holy One of Israel can accomplish ... B"H

Middle eastern Jews.

I've come across many instances where Ashkenazim served as the spiritual heads of Sephardic congregations (and this is hardly a "recent" phenomenon). Is anyone aware of the converse?

http://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/nacionalidade-portuguesa-atribuida-a-713-descendentes-de-sefarditas-8730365.html

On and off for years, I've been working on this historical flowchart of liturgical variation, expanding from the work of the liturgy scholar, Dr. Joseph Heinemann. (Boxes in the chart with a black outline around them come directly from Heinemann's original diagram.)If you have the knowledge, you can help improve this chart. The current version is 3.5.4.Just in regards to the Portuguese/Lisbon bran...

500 Years of Reformation leads to a lot of exhibitions. Here's one in France, which sheds light on the history of two minorities: the Jews and the Huguenots - bien étonné de se trouver ensemble. Antisemitism gets duly noted, but too much is made of a supposedly friendly attitude of Huguenots towards Jews, during a few centuries. Nevertheless, there are enough interesting items about the history of...

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Jewish life in SIWA OASIS ANCIENT EGYPT

AMORNom patronymique d'origine arabe, prénom d'homme encore en usage de nos jours chez les Juifs et les Musulmans, devenu tradivement nom patronymique dans certaines commu­nautés, un des très nombreux prénoms votifs donnés pour souhaiter longue vie (amr) au nouveau-né, la mortalité infantile faisant des ravages dans l'ancien temps.

https://www.facebook.com/sephardicgenjourneys/posts/1571250566272005

Does anyone know off any S&P in Denver Colorado?

Does anyone know of a sephardic congregation in the Monsey area that has slichot in the morning? asking for a SP friend. TIA!

Prayer of the 'Portuguese Jewish Nation' on the death in 1751 of William IV Prince of Orange, first hereditary Stadtholder of the Netherlands - with some remarkable calligraphy

Bonjour,- Ne connaissant pas mes origines paternelles, et n'ayant trouvé aucune information sur l'identité de mon père, malgré toutes mes recherches, j'ai décidé de faire de la généalogie génétique, en passant par la société américaine Family Tree Dna (FTDNA). - Je viens de recevoir des résultats qui montrent que ma branche exclusivement paternelle (Père, grand-père paternel, père de mon grand-pèr...

Hello, my husband came across this beautiful book, however, neither one of us speaks Hebrew, so I really have no clue what it is. Could some one tell me a little bit about this please.

I've been wanting to do a video or audio series in Portuguese about Judaism but#1 Would anyone actually watch/listen#2 about what specifically should it be about?

Thank you Miriam

UPDATE: The 27th Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies will take place 5-7 November 2017, in Philadelphia, PA, at the National Museum of American Jewish History and at Mikveh Israel - the Synagogue of the American Revolution (established 1740).The theme is "Crypto-Judaism in the Americas."Headline speakers are Dr. Ronnie Perelis and Dr. David Gitlitz, PhD.Perelis is Alcalay chair and...

Les juifs ont souvent varié les couleurs de leurs habillementsCes puissances invoquaient, pour démontrer que le Maroc méprisait les juifs depuis des siècles, que : ceux-ci vivaient dans l'isolement, presque prisonniers dans des quartiers entourés de murs, les mellahs, érigés tant dans les villes anciennes que les plus récentes, comme Fès et Essaouira ; ils se voyaient interdits de choisir leurs te...

Moses Montefiore Census of the Holyland Alexandria, Sidon and Beirut

Dear friends. Even being a portuguese native and quite fluent in Spanish (not Ladino), I couldn't guess what this expression "Cabos Buenos" could mean. Any idea?

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