Miami Herald article: Dispute between Touro Synagogue, Congregation Shearith...
Rift between oldest synagogue, Jewish congregation By MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press 12/31/12 PROVIDENCE, R.I. – “A disagreement over the ownership of a set of Torah finial bells from Colonial...
View ArticleSeminar: Inquisitions in Iberia (1/10/13, Jerusalem)
Inquisitions in Iberia: 200 Years since the Abolition of the Inquisition by the Cortes of Cádiz This interdisciplinary seminar will be held on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Rehov...
View ArticleCFP: Rabbi Ben-Zion Uzziel: Halakhist, Thinker, Leader
Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uzziel (1880-1953) served as rabbi of Jaffa (and Tel Aviv) from 1912 to 1939, and subsequently as Rishon Le-Zion, Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and (from 1948)...
View ArticleCFP: Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd Annual Conference Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Colorado Springs, CO July 28-30, 2013 We invite papers on crypto-Judaism from any discipline (e.g., anthropology, history,...
View ArticleSymposium: Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field
Co-organized through the Sephardic Studies Initiative of the University of Washington’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced...
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