Gloria Ascher doesn’t have a driver’s license. So the 80 miles she has to travel every few weeks from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to a Boston suburb to teach Ladino, an ancient Judeo-Spanish language, to ...

On July 9, amid rainwater cracks in limestone rock, charcoal ibex painted by prehistoric man and discarded artifacts from Victorian-era picnics, a loose collective of Jewish women will sing songs of ...

A sold-out crowd packed the house at the Center for Jewish History — and even filled an overflow room viewing the proceedings on screen — at the third annual Ladino Day in New York, home to the ...

Think of Ladino as a kind of unmelting snowball, rolling from country to country, picking up more words, more quirks, more resilience — more color — as it goes. Often it rests, then it takes off again ...

Every year since 1988 (other than 2020 and 2021), Tzfat has hosted the International Klezmer Festival. Klezmer bands and performers from around the world come to Tzfat to play at open-air stages as ...

Newswise — For Bryan Kirschen, Ladino is more than a language he researches — it’s a living entity with a history. “This language represents a culture, a world that is fading little by little,” said ...

Devin Naar, a University of Washington assistant professor in Jewish studies, is creating the first digitized library of Ladino source materials. NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Azose knew he had a treasure in ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Azose knew he had a treasure in his hands — a nearly century-old booklet for Ladino-speaking Jews immigrating to the United States that featured English, Ladino and Yiddish ...

Scholars and Ladino speakers agree that he single-handedly revived the language at a time when it was on the decline and Sephardi culture had lost relevance. Moshe Shaul, the man who gave Ladino a new ...

Sinai Temple has initiated a new Shabbat program to share different traditions from around the Jewish world. As Rabbi Sherman explained in his sermon on Terumah, just as the curtains of the Mishkan ...