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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 20, 2025, 6:08 AM

Ladino: The Sephardi World in Motion

Ladino — the Judeo-Spanish born from medieval Castile — became the circulatory system of the Sephardi diaspora after 1492. As Jews relocated to Salonika, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Izmir, and North Africa, Ladino evolved into a portable homeland: a language that...

Sep 1, 2024, 4:48 AM

Dr. Esther Gitman – Holocaust survivor, historian, and bridge builder

On the evening of July 29, 2019, an official dinner was held at Beit HaNassi, the official residence of Reuven Rivlin, then President of Israel. The occasion was to formally welcome Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia. Typically,...

Jaime Kardontchik

Jan 12, 2024, 9:47 AM

Paul Ben-Haim – The music of Israel

Paul Ben-Haim passed away 40 years ago, on January 14, 1984, in Tel-Aviv. Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984), was born in Germany. He was an accomplished pianist, composer, and orchestra conductor. In 1924 he was appointed as Kapellmeister and choir conductor...

May 29, 2023, 5:45 AM

Speaking of Language

In the flood of congratulatory articles celebrating Israel’s 75th birthday, it's been odd and surprising to encounter one side of the language debate that filled my childhood home -- Yiddish (my leftist father) vs Hebrew (my right-wing Zionist mother)...

Nov 29, 2021, 11:20 AM

The Expulsion Synagogue

"Every day one should work so that Judaism should thrive. And it will." "Every day one should work so that Judaism should thrive - and it will" says in a mixture of Ladino and Turkish languages by Mr. Leon Elnekave,...

Óscar Reyes-Matute

Nov 11, 2021, 5:00 PM

Exile and Redemption

I live in a country with a dire humanitarian crisis. Around me I see hunger, death, fear, and we are ruled by a failed state. But as a philosopher, political scientist, and above all a student of Kabbalah, I cannot...

Jaime Kardontchik

Aug 13, 2021, 11:15 AM

A Brief History of the Jewish People

How to compress 3,500 years of “History of the Jewish People” in a few pages, for students in a compulsory “Ethnic Studies” course in California’s K12 schools? First things first: do not let an ignorant, posing as an “educator”, confuse...

Jaime Kardontchik

Jun 22, 2021, 7:12 AM

Ethnic Studies: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews

Do not let an ignorant, posing as an “educator”, confuse you: Jews are not divided between the “oppressed” American Jews of Sephardi or Middle Eastern origin (whose status in the latest approved “California Ethnic Studies Curriculum” was upgraded to...

William Echikson

May 4, 2021, 11:37 AM

Saving Jewish Languages: Yiddish to Judeo-Tat

Wherever Jews have settled, they have adopted local languages and added a Jewish twist – from Yiddish and Ladino to the lesser-known varieties such as Judeo-Tat (Azerbaijan and Dagestan) and Judeo-Malayalam (Southern India). Over the past two centuries, migration...

Batya Brownstein

Nov 10, 2020, 8:42 PM

Opinion: Austrian citizenship for returning Jews is unintentionally anti- Semitic

Willing victims of a wanderlust culture (a categorization in which I include myself), Israelis have begun in recent years to accumulate international citizenships in order to avoid the bureaucracy of visas and the like, as well as to provide...

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