Clearing up Ladino, Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic Music
Over the past couple of decades, this music has enjoyed a timely and much-deserved renaissance. But there is a good deal of confusion about what it is called, how old it is, who sings it and how it should be sung. For Halapid readers, here is a general outline to try to clear this up. [...]
The Atlantic Monthly Expose
Debbie Nathan is the co-author of Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, which makes her a practiced writer of exposes. Apparently, one expose wasn’t enough, and she needed another. She was able to convince Barbara Ferry to lend her investigative reporting a needed cachet with readers, since Barbara, [...]
Doña Gracia…With the Warts
Letter to the Editor for HaLapid If we persist in presenting our heroes and heroines without their foibles, then those whose opinions differ from ours on these issues will present them for us, often happily so — sometimes with a vengeance. In 1507, after the massacre of thousands of new Christians in Lisbon when King [...]
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