Jewish Journal

Reclaiming Sephardic music, culture on road to Spanish citizenship

When Maya and Noa Dori were kids growing up in Israel, they used to spend Shabbat with their grandmother Lisa Romano. One night, as Maya tells it, they walked outside and “started to pinpoint the ...
Jewish United Fund

Sing a song to the Sabbath Day:

Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” begins Psalm 92. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy written every year. Here are five of the best recent ...
Jewish United Fund

Sing a song to the Sabbath Day: Five recent Shabbat CDs

Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” starts Psalm 92 of the Tehilim. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy being written every year. Here are five ...
The Advocate

In Bosnia, gentile musicians work to preserve the country’s Sephardic Jewish tradition

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that with ...