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This week, we have two different perspectives from the Diaspora: a new take on hamantaschen from South Africa, as well as the important discovery of a 19th-century Ladino memoir. We also love the story of a surprising alliance between religious and secular Jews in Jerusalem attempting to restore the city’s cosmopolitan nature. Click below for more…

Excerpt from a recently discovered memoir in Ladino, www.tabletmag.com

South African Hamantaschen, just in time for Purim!

A surprising alliance between secular and Haredi Jews in Jerusalem.

A bonanza for scholars of Sephardic history and fans of autobiography: the earliest known Ladino memoir from Salonica was recently found by Professor (and former Stroum Lecturer) Aron Rodrigue of Stanford University.

And lastly….some Mormons are still baptizing posthumously? Seriously?

 

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