Roberto Loiederman
UCLA to house large archive of Sephardic culture
January 11, 2017
The history of European Jewry has been well organized and cataloged, but until now there has been no large-scale effort to gather documents and other materials pertaining to Sephardic Jewry around the Mediterranean, according to Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA history professor and holder of the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic studies.
Sisters from a prominent Sephardic family to get Spanish citizenship
June 29, 2016
It’s been more than 500 years since Yosef Elyashar, a rabbi in the Spanish town of Híjar, was expelled from his home country.
New children’s songs in an old language
June 15, 2016
Sarah Aroeste’s recently released album is exactly the kind of music parents of young children look for and toddlers love: catchy, easy-to-sing melodies, simple repetitive lyrics inspired by the child’s everyday world, and dollops of humor and surprise.
Latina Jews put stories onstage
May 11, 2016
During a recent Jewish Women’s Theatre (JWT) rehearsal, a young actress reads a solo scene from a show that’s about to open.
A Rabbi’s path for recovery
May 4, 2016
Thirty years ago, after what he’s called his “umpteenth” arrest for fraud, forgery and bad checks, Mark Borovitz had a “spiritual awakening.”
Blurring Israel’s Green Line
March 4, 2016
There is probably no Israel tour quite like that offered by Lydia Aisenberg, which focuses on the Green Line — the demarcation between Israel and its neighbors set in the 1949 Armistice Agreement after the end of Israel’s War of Independence.
New law offers Sephardim right of return to Spain
July 23, 2015
On June 11, the government of Spain unanimously passed a law that attempts to right a historic wrong.
Head of Israeli hospital was crucial in aiding quake-ravaged Nepal
June 11, 2015
Just hours after the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal, Dr. Jonathan Halevy received an urgent call from his deputy director general, Dr. Ofer Merin, a senior cardiothoracic surgeon.
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