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The Schmooze Sephardic Legend Flory Jagoda Keeps Singing at 90
Photo: Tom Pich Soon after she assumed the makeshift stage during her July 16 performance at the Washington D.C. JCC, Flory Jagoda, 90, lit a candle. “Sephardic women always believed in light, in a candle,” she told the audience of about 125 people. “With these candles,” the Bosnian-born artist sang in Ladino, “We pray to…
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Opinion From Shul to Shrimp in New Orleans
The French Quarter in New Orleans. We spent the last night of our road trip through the Jewish South in New Orleans — not really part of the South at all. The Big Easy is more like the northern extension of the Caribbean. And its Jewish life reflects that. The pattern we saw here differed…
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Food A Taste of Tel Aviv in New Orleans
Israeli-born chef Alon Shaya cooks an eggplant and okra dish in his New Orleans restaurant. Nearly 300 years after Louis the XIV’s “Code Noir” ordered all Jews out of Louisiana, Israeli-born chef Alon Shaya set up shop in New Orleans. Shaya’s restaurant, Domenica, opened as a traditional Italian restaurant in 2009. Slowly but surely, however,…
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News From Crown Heights to Mississippi
Malkie Schwartz stands in front of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi. Turn off Highway I-55 N at Frontage Road in Jackson, Mississippi and you’ll come across a non-descript squat brown building. Inside is a trove of Jewish learning. The Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) delivers rabbinic services, educational programs and…
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Opinion Joseph Stalks Us in Memphis
Jews pop up in unexpected places in Memphis, Tennessee. Here are six things that surprised us in the Blues City. 1) Joseph Is Stalking Us The biblical Joseph is stalking us in the South. We first came across him in Alabama, when we drove through Dothan, a town with a fledgling Jewish community. The town’s…
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Opinion Being a Jew in ‘Bombingham’ Alabama
Investigators probe bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama./FBI Photo Holocaust analogies abound in Birmingham. That became clear within minutes of meeting Sol Kimerling, the 84-year-old historian who embodies Southern charm — and who served as our tour guide for the day. Dressed in a blue checkered shirt, brown corduroys and dapper black…
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Opinion Feeling ‘Chosen’ in Alabama
Anne and Sigal’s flight path. Next stop, Birmingham. We landed in Birmingham and were hit by a wall of heat — and a Bible. The taxi driver who ushered us from the airport to our hotel keeps a copy of the Holy Bible on his passenger seat. Welcome to Alabama. That was tame compared to…
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Opinion 8 Best Jewish Road Trips
Editor’s Note: As part of the Forward’s Our Promised Lands project, which will cover 50 states in 50 weeks, Anne Cohen and Sigal Samuel are setting out on a Southern adventure. Over the next eight days, they will travel to Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, so keep an eye on this blog to follow their…
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