Jewish Resilience through Chocolate, with Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  In the 16th and 17th centuries on what ritual occasions did Jews in Mexico drink chocolate?

Rabbi Deborah Prinz is Rabbi Emerita of Temple Adat Shalom in San … Leer más

Sukkot: Some Traditions and a Story

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is the historical relationship between Passover, Shevout and Sukkot?

Sukkot is an 8-day holiday which begins five days after Yom Kippur, on the 15th of … Leer más

Kaporos—A Story for Yom Kippur by Sholem Aleichem

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – The word “Kaporos” is a Hebrew word which refers to an old religious custom among the Jews, the ritual of the scapegoat. The ritual of Kaporos is performed in the home before … Leer más

Recipes of the Crypto-Jews, with Genie Milgrom

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What are some originally Jewish practices related to food preparation that were passed on in Crypto-Jewish families as “family traditions”?

Genie Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba, into … Leer más

Limud in Mallorca: Bringing Jews Together

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Where does kosher food in Mallorca come from?

The word “Limmud” comes from the Hebrew word meaning “to learn”.  The Limmud organization was born in 1980 in the … Leer más

Mallorca’s Thriving Jewish Community, with Dani Rotstein

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How many surnames identify people as being Chuetas, descendents of the original Jewish inhabitants of Mallorca?

Dani Rotstein was born in the United States and in 2014 relocated … Leer más

Stand Up for Justice with the Workers Circle

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How are college students recruited for the Workers Circle’s Peer Educator program?

The Workers Circle is a social justice organization that powers progressive Jewish identity through … Leer más

Rabbi Haim Ovadia II: Empowering Sephardic Women

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  What is Morot Tzedek?

Rabbi Haim Ovadia is an educator who believes in empowerment and unconditional love. After thirty years as a pulpit rabbi in Israel, South America, … Leer más

Rabbi Haim Ovadia I: Celebrating Sephardic Heritage

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Why were Sephardic Jews originally better able to co-exist with surrounding non-Jewish communities than Ashkenazi Jews were?

Rabbi Haim Ovadia was born and raised in Jerusalem. He was … Leer más

OUDC: Building an Intercultural Community, with Yolanda Savage-Narva

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How are students chosen to participate in OUDC’s Justice Fellowship program?

Operation Understanding DC (OUDC) is a nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC.   Their mission is to … Leer más

Ketubbot Registers of Livorno: A Key to Jewish History, with Alain Nedjar

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How did the dowries of Ashkenazi Jews compare with those of Jews coming from Spain, as reflected in the Livorno Ketubbot?

Alain Nedjar, Gilles Boulu, Liliane Nedjar and … Leer más

Arevot and Sephardic-Mizrahi Feminism, with Dr. Angy Cohen

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is “traditionist feminism” as defined by the Beit Midrash Arevot?

Dr. Angy Cohen was born and raised in Madrid, Spain and moved to Israel in … Leer más

Hasidism: Its History, Beliefs and Practices, with Dr. Levi Cooper

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How did urbanization and moving to Israel and America affect the Hasidic movement?

Dr. Levi Cooper is a teacher, author, and community leader who is originally from Australia and … Leer más

Musealia’s Auschwitz Exhibition Receives Prestigious European Awards

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How is the version of the exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York different from the original one?

Musealia is a Spanish company that creates, … Leer más

Moroccan Jews: Memory and Identity, with Dr. Angy Cohen

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did Sephardic women in Argentina start going to Conservative Ashkenazi synagogues?

Dr. Angy Cohen was born and raised in Madrid, Spain and moved to Israel in 2014. She … Leer más

Artists in the Nazi Camps, with Javier Molins

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What materials did the artists in the Nazi camps use, and where did they get them?

Javier Molins holds a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University … Leer más

The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, with Dr. Levi Cooper

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: To which countries outside of Israel has Pardes taken student groups?

The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies is an open, inclusive, diverse and intellectually challenging Jewish learning community … Leer más

Women in Medieval Hebrew Literature, with Rachel Peled

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  How many Hebrew poems do scholars think might have been written by women in Iberia in the Middle Ages?

Rachel Peled was born in Israel and has lived … Leer más

How Jews in Cuba are Coping: An Update, with Linda Hirsch

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Through which country do many Cuban Jews have to go now if they want to make aliyah to Israel?

Linda Hirsch is a photographer and … Leer más

A Story for Mother’s Day, by Bessie Hallowitz

ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – Many countries celebrate Mother’s Day in May, so this week we decided to read you a Mother’s Day story. But first a little history.

Many people think that Mother’s Day … Leer más