HaLapid Spring/Summer 2011

Tours of the Past through the Present -Returning to Sefarad:

Tours of the Past through the Present -Returning to Sefarad:

The Ladinokomunita Group visit Spain October 6-18, 2010 For each of the last four years, Ladinokomunita (LK) members have gotten together to tour a country with historic or current Sephardic significance.1 After Israel, Turkey, and Argentina, in the autumn of 2010 we visited Spain, the land of our deepest roots. For many it was their [...]

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Member Profile: Seth Ward

Member Profile: Seth Ward

Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Vice-President for Programing, Professor Seth Ward, brings a wealth of education and experience to his position. Serving as Program Chair for the 21st Annual Conference, to take place in San Diego this August 7-9, Professor Ward has been on the faculty of the University of Wyoming (UW) since January 2003, where [...]

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An historical tour through the Jewish Caribbean

An historical tour through the Jewish Caribbean

Since 1995 I have led Jewish heritage cruises throughout the Caribbean. Participants most often come with the traditions of Eastern and Central European Jewry. We sail past some of the thirty plus inhabited islands of the Caribbean forming a graceful and lush archipelago (together with others sparsely inhabited) beginning with Cuba ninety miles south of [...]

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How I discovered the synagogue of Coria

How I discovered the synagogue of Coria

Originally published in Spanish “Cómo descubrí la sinagoga de Coria,” in Tarbut Sefarad, asociación cultural. March 2011 www.tarbutsefarad.com/index.php/es/articulos0/4291-como-descubri-la-sinagoga-de-coria-.html I am a businessman, with a doctorate in business ethics. I teach courses in various universities and I have published academic as well as literary works. However, I am not an archeologist, an historian, or a medium. [...]

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The Position and Self-Image of  Women in Sefardi Sources

The Position and Self-Image of Women in Sefardi Sources

First Annual International Conference Society for Sefardic Studies, Jerusalem, January 9-11, 2011 The first annual international conference of Sefarad, the Society for Sefardic Studies was held this past January 9-11, 2011 in Jerusalem. Founded in 2009 by Yom Tov Assis, its current chairman, Sefarad is affiliated with the Ben-Zvi Institute and is administered through the [...]

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