My arrangement of a song in the judeo sephardic language known as Ladino, originally recorded by KT Tunstall's former band Oi Va Voi, with Emma Blackman on vocals This song appears by permission of ...

In Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood, a retired Orthodox rabbi and a Mexican immigrant are collaborating on a rap video. There will be no scantily clad women. The pair, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Alex ...

Singer Vanessa Paloma loves to perform Ladino songs. “The stories are so amazing,” said Paloma, 33. “They’re like little tidbits of a society that has been spread around the whole world.” Prior to the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Flory Jagoda, the Sarajevo-born Holocaust survivor and Sephardic musician who brought Ladino music to the wider world died last month at the age of 97. Jagoda was a lifelong lover of her ...

Noam Vazana's earliest childhood memories are of her grandmother singing in what is now a dying Jewish-Sephardic language. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Wandering the ornate streets of the city of Fes in northern ...

This article originally appeared on Alma. At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Monastir, present-day Bitola in North Macedonia, was home to the country’s largest Jewish community, 11,000 ...

PUTNEY — Imagine a jazz singer visiting her grandmother's neighborhood in Fez, which has been called the cultural capital of Morocco, and hearing the strains of a song she last heard her grandmother ...

Today is International Ladino Day at the University of Washington in Seattle, where the seventh annual celebration of Ladino, the mother tongue of generations of Sephardic Jews, will take place. This ...

Purists were skeptical when Sarah Aroeste debuted her Ladino rock ‘n’ roll band back in 2001. Most artists singing in the fading Sephardic language were traditionalists, performing classical versions ...