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What’s in a Jewish name? It depends who’s still alive

This contrast is comedy gold, and Modi Rosenfeld has captured it perfectly in his stand-up. Sephardic Jews, he jokes, call ...

Maduro has claimed Jewish ancestry, here is what is known - explainer

Maduro has cited Sephardic Jewish roots, but his own statements and the public record leave his Jewish status unconfirmed.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Search this new list of Jewish family names from Cairo, Alexandria, Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut

(JTA) — In his retirement, Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch is passionate about surnames. Specifically, the last names of Jews who were living in the Arab world before the Mizrahi exodus in the middle of the ...
Sun Sentinel

‘Thriving in South Florida’: New study highlights diversity of local Sephardic Jews

Their ancestors came from North Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Iberia. And they’re all Jewish. Sephardic Jews, at just 10% of the American Jewish population, are a minority within a ...
The Advocate

In Bosnia, gentile musicians work to preserve the country’s Sephardic Jewish tradition

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that with ...