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My Odyssey to Discover and Touch Past and Present Spanish Jewish Life

Daily Video Updates

March 23, 2020by shalommorris 1 Comment

Dear All, With so many of us stuck at home and isolated from one another I’ve decided to put together some videos for you from within London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue. […]

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Musings, Torah, Travels

Jerusalem – The City of Sir Moses Montefiore

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A beloved Israeli children’s song honors the long and productive life of Sir Moses Montefiore. Released by Yehoram Gaon in 1969, the song imagines a conversation between Sir Moses, the renowned […]

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Bemidbar – Making Census of the S&P

July 1, 2019by shalommorris Leave a comment

ב  שְׂאוּ, אֶת-רֹאשׁ כָּל-עֲדַת בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, The rabbinic name for Sefer Bemidbar is the same as its English name, ‘Numbers.’ The rabbis called it Sefer Hapikudim, ‘The Book of Countings,’ as […]

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Academics, Musings, Torah, Travels

Naples, Pompeii and Amalfi – Two Millenia of Jewry

May 8, 2019by shalommorris 2 Comments

One of my more interesting heritage visits was to the city of Naples and its Western Sephardic community. Sephardic exiles moved there in 1492, however, when Spain took control in […]

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Holland Park Synagogue – London

March 3, 2019by shalommorris 6 Comments

The Spanish & Portuguese congregation of Holland Park, London built their beautiful synagogue in 1928. I had the pleasure of celebrating its 90th anniversary on 10 March 2019. Despite my […]

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Debarim – Traveling the S&P

July 20, 2018by shalommorris 2 Comments

Over the past ten years I’ve visited about fifty sites relating to the history of the S&P. These include historic and living synagogues, cemeteries, schools, and locations in Spain and […]

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Torah, Travels

Sha’are Ratzon – Jerusalem, Israel

July 27, 2017by shalommorris Leave a comment

I recently visited one of the world’s newest S&P congregations, and it couldn’t be located in a better place! The congregation’s home is the Istanbuli Synagogue in the historic ‘Four Sephardi Synagogues’ […]

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Yerushalayim – When Jerusalem Was Sephardic

July 20, 2017by shalommorris 5 Comments

 Yerushalayim used to be a Sephardic town. Following the ravages of the Crusades, Sephardim led the way in restoring the Holy Land’s Jewish character. In the wake of the Spanish […]

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Genoa, Italy – Columbus, Cinque Terre, and Sephardim

May 10, 2017by shalommorris 5 Comments

Up the Italian coast from Pisa is Liguria. This region encompasses the historic Republic of Genoa. Genoa was a major banking centre in the 16th century, and it maintained close […]

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Pisa, Italy – Yup, Sephardic Too!

April 20, 2017by shalommorris 6 Comments

When you think Pisa, you think one thing and only one thing. To my delight, I discovered that Pisa should also be known for something else, and that is its […]

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