The Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County was founded in 1992. Its mission is to preserve and promote Sephardic culture and the Ladino language, while providing educational and social activities.
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We hope you have enjoyed are programs for this season, and we are now planning for next season’s programs. In the meantime, we wish you Pesax Alegre — a happy Passover — and check this link for some of our favorite Ladino Passover readings and songs: http://9po.2a2.myftpupload.com/sephardic-passover/
Kon Dulce! May it be a sweet New Year!
2018-5779
Anyada Buena L’Shana Tova Happy New Year
Wishing you and all your loved ones the very best at this season.
From your Board of Directors
In celebration of International Ladino Day, The Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County has partnered with temples and universities to bring a week-long tour of lectures by Dr. Devin E. Naar to Florida.
Devin 
E Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. A former Fulbright scholar, he directs the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection, the largest repository of digital Ladino texts in the world. His book, Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, won a National Jewish Book Award and grand prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association.
Devin Naar Florida Lecture Dates and Details
Download the flyer for all of Dr. Naar’s appearances in Florida HERE
Friday, Feb. 8, 7:00pm TEMPLE MOSES, Miami Beach
SHABBAT GUEST SPEAKER
“Jews of Salonica”
TEMPLE MOSES Sephardic Congregation of Florida
1200 Normandy Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33141 – Temple Phone: (305) 861-6308
Sunday, Feb. 10, 12:30pm TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOM, Boynton Beach
International Ladino Day Celebration
A Special “ECHAR LASHON with Devin Naar”
A Special Early Bonus Session for Ladino Speakers – Included with 2pm Lecture Admission. Coffee and Biscoches.
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2:00pm TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOM, Boynton Beach
Adult Jewish Learning Collaborative (ADJLC) SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
“FACING DEPORTATION: Sephardic Jews & America’s Legacy of Immigration Restriction”
Tracing the Jewish Diaspora and cultural adaptations from medieval Spain to Ottoman Salonica, Modern Greece and America. The transition of Jewish communities as they struggled to keep their identity and faith in a changing, multi- cultural world and the influence of immigration policies. Meet and Greet with refreshments follow the lecture.
TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOM
9085 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33472 – Temple Phone: (561) 364-9054
$12 Members* / $15 Guests (*members of ADJLC, Sephardi Federation or participating synagogues)
Monday, Feb. 11, 12:30 pm FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton
VISITING SCHOLAR/JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY/BOCA RATON
“Sephardic Jews of Salonica”
FAU Campus, S.E Wimberly Library
777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431 Wimberly Library Phone: (561) 297-6911
FREE to the public
Monday, Feb. 11, 7:00 pm JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU, Miami Beach
MONDAYS AT MUSEUM SERIES: LECTURE BY DR. DEVIN NAAR
“Under the Wings of the Sultan: The Rise of Jewish Communities in the Ottoman Empire*
An illustrated lecture about the ancient Jewish community of Salonika.
The “Golden Age” of Jewish life in Spain came to a devastating end in 1492. In the wake of the infamous expulsion decree of that year, Jews from Spain dispersed far and wide with the largest number ultimately settling in the lands of the Ottoman Empire. This lecture traces the trans-Mediterranean journey of the exiled Spanish Jews to the sultan’s realm and the cultural and political dynamics that shaped the communities they created and developed over the subsequent centuries. It short, it explores how the descendants of Spanish Jews eventually became Ottoman Jews.
Jewish Museum of Florida- Florida International University
301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33139 Museum Phone: (305) 672-5044
$5 Members, $10 Non-Members, FIU Students Free
Thursday, Feb. 14, 5:00 pm CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES-UF, Gainesville
Library East Judaic Suite Lecture Series
“The Rise and Fall of Salonica: The ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans’”
The Mediterranean port city of Salonica was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city’s incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval for Salonica’s Jews. Professor Naar’s award-winning book, Jewish Salonica, tells the story through the voices of Salonican Jews as they forged a new place for themselves in Greek society. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he directs the Sephardic Studies Program.
Made possible by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies, and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
Library East Judaica Suite – University of Florida/Gainesville
1545 W University Ave Gainesville, FL 32611 United States Library Phone: (352) 392-9247
FREE
The Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County, Inc.
September 2018 – Our Annual Letter
Dear Friends,
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to participate in our upcoming 2018-2019 season of programs. This will truly be an exciting season with many surprises!
Your Membership Invitation/Renewal is enclosed and we urge you to respond, as soon as possible, to benefit from member admission rates and to help fund our activities.
Our successful partnership with the Adult Jewish Learning Collaborative (ADJLC) continues this year expanding even greater public awareness of our activities as well as providing significant event expense savings.
Echar Lashon and Viva Ladino scheduling has been streamlined to provide even closer association and interaction. Our Sunday Vijitas de Alhad include very special appearances from internationally known Genie Milgrom and Dr. Devin Naar.
These are events are not to be missed!
Thank you for your interest and support, especially to those who have been with us through so many years! We have become an extended family which truly cares about each other, and we look forward again to another year of being together.
"Asta ke mos vemos kon salud i vida." "Until we see each other, with health and life."
Miriam Behar, Membership/Secretary
Rose Pappo Allen, President
Click here to connect with our partners at Adult Jewish Learning Collaborative (ADJLC)
