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Sefardic Names List.pdf
Read About Emma
Lazarus.pdf
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Emma Lazarus' famous lines caught our national imagination and
continue to inspire
the way we think about freedom and exile today.
Read About
Rambam.pdf
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon was born
on the eve of Pesach
(Passover)
in Cordoba, in 4895
(CE 1135).
He was born into a very
illustrious family which was able to trace its ancestry back to
Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, the compiler of the Mishna, and King David.
His father, Rabbi Maimon, the
dayan (judge)
of
Cordoba, gave him a good education in Torah and secular subjects
such as mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Moshe excelled in
all these studies.
Read About LADINO VOCABULARY.pdf
The
vocabulary of Ladino is full of Jewish words referring to the
Judaic religion and specific features of the Jewish life. After
the exodus from Spain Ladino adopted a lot of foreign words and
phrases. |
