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#Shanah_Tovah! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly featured articles on Crossing the the Bosphorus, the President of Portugal’s Visit to American Sephardi Federation, Untangling the Tale of an Orphan from Thessaloniki, Greece, & the 100th Anniversary of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.This Week’s Articles:1.) The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America began with forty young Jewish men and ...

This evening I show you a little treasureI have a small collection of Tora-fragments and this one is a 500-600 years old fragment of a spanish Tora(Exodus 24:18 - 26:8)

החזרה אל המקורות בעיצומה! מיטב הכחות פועלים להפצת תורתם של חכמי המערב.רוב ספרי חכמי המערב יצאו מחדש , מכונים חשובים ביותר כמו אהבת שלום ועוד מוציאים את ספרי חכמי המערב ללא לאות.בשנים האחרונות יצאו ספרים רבים על מנהגי מרוקו .ממשיכי דרכם של גאוני המערב הם חזקים יותר מתמיד. ועובדים ללא לאות להפצת תורתם של חכמי המערב.רבי יהושע מאמן זקן חכמי המערב מפיץ את ספריו לאלפים ע"י בנו נשיא עדת המערביים שחולש על...

החזרה אל המקורות בעיצומה! מיטב הכחות פועלים להפצת תורתם של חכמי המערב.רוב ספרי חכמי המערב יצאו מחדש , מכונים חשובים ביותר כמו אהבת שלום ועוד מוציאים את ספרי חכמי המערב ללא לאות.בשנים האחרונות יצאו ספרים רבים על מנהגי מרוקו .ממשיכי דרכם של גאוני המערב הם חזקים יותר מתמיד. ועובדים ללא לאות להפצת תורתם של חכמי המערב.רבי יהושע מאמן זקן חכמי המערב מפיץ את ספריו לאלפים ע"י בנו נשיא עדת המערביים שחולש על...

Dear friends !Tomorrow I'm again on the sephardic cemetary Hamburg-Altona1600 sephardic graves are documented !If you are a descendent of one of this families I will try to find the gravestones and will post detailed pics hereFeel free to ask me and send me the names of your ancestors

Hello everyone!Im trying to find additional information about my mothers maternal side of the family since I knew that her great grandmother had Jewish decent but finding information about them has been difficult anyone have any suggestions?

This came out on Sunday in the local paper about concert and lecture I'm organizing in Eugene, OR.

Dear friends !On this cemetary in Hamburg we can find many sephardic graves with the names of well known families like PARDO , CASSUTO, ALDEMOLA.........

In this picture, the man standing alone close the pillar, what kind of hat is he using?

Hello all. I posted this in a couple of other groups as I am casting a wide net to locate some family. We are Turkish Jews. My grandmother came to the US with her aunt and uncle, who assumed parenting her. She left her sister and other family members in Instabul, Balat area. The family names are: Behar, Benezra, Siva and Hara. I have been unable to find information further back than my great grand...

Some say sephardim and ashkenazim are different but......" Y al final somos iguales "

Dear friends !I live in Hamburg and like to show you some pictures from my last visit of the sephardic cemetary Hamburg-Altona

Shana Tova to one and all

Hi all, I'm still trying to research the De Pinna part of my family tree and one challenge I'm facing is that I have yet to be able to take the family farther back than London in the early 1800s. The most distant ancestor I know of is my 4x great grandfather, David de Pinna, born in England around 1810. I'm fairly confident that the family was in Amsterdam before London, but I can't find the link!...

Would love to go there, can somebody report? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/03/the-passions-of-medieval-jerusalem

Bruno Feitler published an aricle on the Jews in Dutch Brasil on academia.edu. Christopher Sellars, see page 127. Signing up with academia is easy and free (of course they will offer extra's for a fee). https://www.academia.edu/28767626/Feitler_Jews_and_New_Christians.pdf

https://youtu.be/EHUU-6dlqdEIn the Spanish and Portuguese tradition there are many selections in the Selichot for Yom Kippur which are read to a nondescript chant, that has no particular affinity to the musical mood of the day. Aseh Lema'an Shemakh is one such example. At the Misgav Ladach synagogue here in Jerusalem this selicha is sung to a captivating but little known melody, which I believe co...

Printed in Amsterdam by Benveniste.

Good evening all, I am looking for tips on how to read deteriorating tombstones. Thanks to Laura Arnold Leibman, I will use flour. Does anyone else have any other tips? Much appreciated!

Une fois finie, la Tour Hassan ressemblerait à ceci.

A story which illustrates nicely (albeit extreme) the problems and complications of a converso family where some return to Judaism, it also shows clearly how we really are our own worst enemys.If the story true.Yaakov K/Coriel (Diego Perez D'acosta) was a Marrano that had sailed with the Spanish Fleet until his true identity was revealed. As a captive of the Holy Roman Empire, he was secretly sh...

Hi everyone. Might someone be able to help me with this marriage intention from Suriname? I can identify the bride and groom, Moses Raphael Jona and Sara Jona. But, I'm trying to figure out who the other named Jona family members are. As an fyi, I learned that the Jona family came from Gibraltar, members of the family then moved to Amsterdam and then Suriname.

And yet another exhibition about early American Jews:

The Rodeamentoshouse in the cemetery Beth Haim, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.

Any recommendations for Rosh Hashannah reading?