Category: Sephardim
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Rachel Amado Bortnick or how to rescue a Dying Language
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies's board member, Rachel Bortnick, shares her passion and dedication to Ladino with The Jewish Daily FORWARD. Congratulations Rachel! From The Jewish Daily FORWARD By Martin Rosenberg Published January 27, 2013, issue of February 01, 2013. Each year, languages slip into oblivion. Some say Ladino, or Judaismo,...
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Celebrating Hanukkah and a Hidden Past
By Jude Joffe-Block Friday, December 7, 2012 PHOENIX — Yosef Garcia grew up Catholic in Panama. He was an altar boy in his town’s church. Back then, for him, the winter holidays meant Christmas. “You would start out with midnight mass, there were a lot of rituals,” Garcia said. “As the...