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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 ...

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Hebrew is the language of statehood—and also of study and prayer—yet the community we actually have is a polyphony stitched ...

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 ...

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A housewife by day and actress by night, Forti Barokas is one of a few people trying to revive an endangered language, Ladino, spoken mostly by Turkiye’s Jewish community. Barokas is among ...

ISTANBUL (JTA) — Every time she prepares her newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon has her pick from dozens of submissions she receives daily from writers around the world. A desirable situation for any ...

BOSTON — Tutti Druyan grew up in a home reverberating with music as the daughter of two successful Israeli musicians — singer Gitit Shoval, who catapulted onto the Israeli pop scene as a 13-year-old ...

I’ve been spending a lot of time at the Pearl lately. With the recent addition of Carriqui, Full Goods Diner, Allora, Arrosta and Ladino, the Pearl’s a nuclear reactor for new restaurant projects, ...