The American Ladino League, which describes itself as a “new hub for Ladino language learning and community,” is a creative and multi-layered response to the growing interest in learning Ladino — and ...

Though the place smelled different, its soundscape created a deep emotional connection, leading me to reflect on how sensory experiences help migrants — like Sephardim — feel at home in a new land ...

Vazana is one of the very few who writes original music in Ladino, the ancient language of Sephardic Jews. Building a bridge from the past to present, she sings Ladino traditionals that feature ...

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MADRID (AP) — A language still spoken by the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain 500 years ago is getting a helping hand from the Spanish Royal Academy to keep it alive. Ladino, a language taken ...

Sarah Aroeste will perform at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills as part of her Sounds of the Sephardic Sea program on March 19. The singer from New Jersey has four albums under her ...

Sarah Aroeste went to school to study classical opera, and for one summer in the late 1990s, she trained in Israel, where her coach was a Ladino music scholar. Aroeste knew some Ladino folk songs ...

Tufts' first Sephardic Festival brought scholars and activists Matilda Ko?©n-Sarano and Aharon Cohen to campus last Thursday. The two personalities - who also happen to be married - celebrated the ...

(JTA) — “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” has made headlines as one of the Israeli TV industry’s most elaborate and expensive productions ever. The series, which follows a family of Spanish Sephardic ...

Ladino singer/songwriter Sarah Aroeste and chef/teacher Susan Barocas have teamed up for a unique project designed to keep Sephardic traditions alive. “’Savor’ is a multisensory conversation between ...

Moris Albahari, one of the last speakers of the Ladino language in Bosnia and a guardian of the Jewish tradition, passed away in Sarajevo at the age of 93, N1 TV reported. According to BBC reportage ...