Irakere / Metheny Medley; Flower of The Levant; Madrid; Mi Chiquita; Anima; Cortina; Ladino Song; Samba do Aviao; Erghen Diado; Penas Luz; Estate; Rio Ancho. John ...

Singer Vanessa Paloma loves to perform Ladino songs. “The stories are so amazing,” said Paloma, 33. “They’re like little tidbits of a society that has been spread around the whole world.” Prior to the ...

In Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood, a retired Orthodox rabbi and a Mexican immigrant are collaborating on a rap video. There will be no scantily clad women. The pair, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Alex ...

Flory Jagoda, the Sarajevo-born Holocaust survivor and Sephardic musician who brought Ladino music to the wider world died last month at the age of 97. Jagoda was a lifelong lover of her ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ladino, a fusion of Hebrew and Spanish that evolved among Jews in medieval Spain, has been kept alive by Sephardic communities around the world since the Spanish Inquisition expelled the Jews in 1492.

Noam Vazana's earliest childhood memories are of her grandmother singing in what is now a dying Jewish-Sephardic language. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Wandering the ornate streets of the city of Fes in northern ...

The Sephardic singer’s new album was inspired by an invitation from non-Jews in North Macedonia to perform her original Ladino songs in the birthplace of her grandfather and a 104-year-old cousin. At ...

Today is International Ladino Day at the University of Washington in Seattle, where the seventh annual celebration of Ladino, the mother tongue of generations of Sephardic Jews, will take place. This ...

PUTNEY — Imagine a jazz singer visiting her grandmother's neighborhood in Fez, which has been called the cultural capital of Morocco, and hearing the strains of a song she last heard her grandmother ...