Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Bringing Ladino melodies to the Jewish Music Days Festival

Head of band says he wants to preserve the roots of the music but is equally keen to present the material in a contemporaneously compatible manner.

 ARIEL LAZARUS (in blue suit) and the Israeli Ladino Orchestra.
  Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019.

Medieval synagogue discovered under Spanish church

 The interior of the Synagogue of Lorca in Murcia, Spain.

Spanish towns unearthing ancient synagogues for historical value, tourism

 Bevis Marks Synagogue, London

London lawmakers reject plan for high-rise building next to historic synagogue


Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates community that once was

The synagogue building, the oldest surviving in Manchester, remained a communal symbol long after its congregation disintegrated in the 1980s. It became a museum.

Manchester street art

Portuguese citizenship for descendants of Sephardi Jews

Portugal’s Law of Return

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In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide faith run the community

Mallorca’s tiny Jewish community is now stronger.

A 16TH-CENTURY manuscript by Spanish-born Jew Luis de Carvajal the Younger is displayed at a museum in Mexico City last, 2017

How an Orthodox cantor snagged a role on ‘Orange Is the New Black’

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Cantor Philip Sherman featured as one of “America’s Top Mohels” has another gig: actor.

Actress Lea DeLaria