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Daniel Santacruz

Daniel Santacruz is an editor and translator living in Maale Adumim. He is the translator of The Alhambra Decree (Carmi House Press), a novel about the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and The Cavalier of Malaga (Carmi House Press), a novel about life in Inquisitorial Spain. He edits site devoted to Ladino and Sephardic Jews (http://www.kolsefardim.net/).
Moshe Shaul addressing a gathering of Ladino-speaking Jews in Jerusalem in 2012.

Remembering Moshe Shaul: The man who helped revive Ladino

Scholars and Ladino speakers agree that he single-handedly revived the language at a time when it was on the decline and Sephardi culture had lost relevance.

JUNE 17, 2023
(From left) Genie Milgrom, Ashley Perry (Perez), president of Reconectar, and Dr. Drora Arussy of the Institute of Jewish Experience at the American Sephardi Federation during a recent event at the Four Synagogues in Jerusalem.

What was Jewish life in Spain, Portugal before, during the Inquisition?

Genie Milgrom, a Miami-based genealogist, seeks to make documents of Jewish life in Spain and Portugal before and during the Inquisition available to the public on her website.

OCTOBER 14, 2022
KING FELIPE OF SPAIN speaks at a ceremony at the royal palace in Madrid in 2015 celebrating a law that allowed people who can prove they are descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 and maintained ties with the country to apply for Spanish citizenship.

Sephardi Jews are no longer Spaniards without land - opinion

“The Spain of today wants to take a firm step toward the definite reconciliation with the Sephardic communities.”

MARCH 30, 2022

Jerusalem Botanical Garden: Flowering in Israel's capital

The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens has the largest collection of plants and trees in Israel.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022
A view of the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.

Blooming on the Judean Desert hills

A stroll on the security road that faces Jerusalem reveals a treasure trove of wild flowers that dazzle with their amazing colors and scientific facts.

MAY 14, 2020
Blooming on the Judean Desert hills

Challenging Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Sephardi’ claims

The Judaism the crypto-Jews brought go the colonies, beginning in the early 1500s, was as diluted as the one they left behind.

DECEMBER 23, 2018
US Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) walks up to participate in drawing a lottery number for her new office on Capitol Hill November 30, 2018 in Washington, DC