(JTA) When Angelina Muñiz Huberman was six years old, her mother shut the main door of their apartment in Mexico City and, whispering as if under persecution, told her that she descended from Jews.

MEXICO CITY (JTA) — When Angelina Muñiz Huberman was six years old, her mother shut the main door of their apartment in Mexico City and, whispering as if under persecution, told her that she descended ...

For the second program of its 2016 summer season, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, led by music director Joshua Habermann, presents Sephardic Legacy, which spotlights the musical traditions and heritage ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City. Coordinated by the Latin American Sephardic Federation, the Cumbre Erensya summit ...

Digital page from the online exhibition “100 Years of Sephardic Life in Los Angeles.” Image courtesy of UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaire’s ...

The Jewish Federation of New Mexico abruptly shut down its program that supported some 20,000 people around the world applying for citizenship under Spain’s Sephardic restitution law. (JTA) – With his ...

Scholar and author Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish historian, educator and chef. She speaks throughout Europe and in North and South America and recently presented a lecture at the Jewish ...

Food holds a special place in the celebration of Passover, which begins at sundown Friday. The Seder meal kicks off the eight-day festival commemorating the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian ...

The imposing brick building has long ceased being a Sephardic synagogue. But Stars of David still occupy a prominent space on the doors and above the windows of the Tolliver Temple Memorial Church of ...

This week it’s personal. I’m devastated by the earthquake that claimed thousands of lives in Morocco, and wrought damage on some of the most beautiful historic sites in Marrakesh, including the Mellah ...

The respected academic was inducted into Mexico’s most prestigious literary body, the Mexican Academy of Language. MEXICO CITY (JTA) — When Angelina Muñiz Huberman was six years old, her mother shut ...