Amsterdam’s Noam Vazana will play in Vancouver and Victoria next week. (photo by Robin Daniel Fromann) Multifaceted Jerusalem-born, Amsterdam-based musician…
Amsterdam, Caravan World Rhythms, Israel, jazz, Noam Vazana, SephardiPosts by tag: Sephardi
Lyla Canté’s Cristian Puig, left, and Cantor Alty Weinreb. (photo from Chutzpah!) The best creative ideas often come when you…
Chutzpah!, flamenco, fusion, Lyla Canté, Sephardi
Rabbi Ilan Acoca has published his first book, The Sephardic Book of Why (Hadassa Word Press, 2016). Why is a set…
Beth Hamidrash, Judaism, Sephardi
To make biblical date honey, Middle Eastern Jews boil and press dates that range in color from yellow to brown….
dates, health, pomegranates, Rosh Hashanah, Sephardi
Rabbi Ilan and Rabbanit Dina Acoca and family have moved to New Jersey after 17 years with Vancouver’s Congregation Beth…
Acoca, Beth Hamidrash, Judaism, Sephardi, synagogueOne of the ways to thank God for blessings, says Rabbi Ilan Acoca, is through singing. Shabbat Shira, which takes…
Ashkenazi, Beth Hamidrash, Ilan Acoca, Schara Tzedeck, Sephardi, Shabbat Shira, Yaacov Orzech
Amelia Saltsman’s background makes for an interesting source for her cookbook The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen (Sterling Epicure, 2015). Her mother…
Amelia Saltsman, Chanukah, cookbook, SephardiIn June, the Spanish government passed a law granting descendants of Sephardi Jews forced from that country in the 15th…
antisemitism, BDS, boycott, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Matisyahu, Rototom Sunsplash Festival, Sephardi, Spain, two-state solution
Rabbi Ilan Acoca, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Parliament Hill. (courtesy of Prime Minister’s Office) Last…
Beth Hamidrash, David Matas, Ilan Acoca, Iran, Sephardi, terrorism
Ashkenazi-style charoset: apples, walnuts, cinnamon and red wine. (photo by Yoninah via commons.wikimedia.org) What Passover seder symbol is common to…
Ashkenazi, charoset, Passover, recipes, seder, Sephardi
