(All Ladino-speaking areas were part of the Ottoman ... And since these texts — the Bible, the Mishnah, the prayer book — were all in Hebrew, even ordinary Jews knew a great amount of Hebrew ...

The service is usually led by cantor Igor Kožemjakin and includes some prayers and songs in Ladino. These ancient engraved sticks hold the memory of the world's oldest continuous living culture.

It includes prayers according to the Jewish Roman rite ... Now meet the Sarajevo Machzor, a Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) translation of the liturgy, intended for use by women. This machzor, in two ...

Ice cream cones, not so much.) As excitement built among Seattle’s Sephardim, who still use some Ladino words in prayers and everyday speech, several families and a foundation donated money to ...

In this new world, Ladino was spoken, if at all, only in the home. “Always, when I hear Spanish, I hear my father and mother, and all the synagogues, prayers in Ladino and rabbis who spoke Ladino.

A 500-year-old Sephardi women’s prayer book is being reissued in Hebrew. Seder Nashim, created in the 16th century by Rabbi Meir Benbenishti, was originally written in Ladino because most women ...

Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, also represents a culture that has survived hundreds of years and is still relevant today. And more people need to know about it. Ladino is a pan ...

Another month, another mouthwatering potluck for Washington’s group of Ladino-speaking Jews: Lilian Katz has brought her kuajado di spinaka, a spinach pie composed with layers of matzoh.

The pair, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Alex Hernandez, call themselves Los Seranos, the watchmen, and they’re safeguarding messages locked in Ladino song lyrics generations ago by doing a little ...