Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

Two-thirds of a 15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book were lost to history. Until now.

The Lisbon Mahzor is now complete after the National Library of Israel reclaims its missing parts, preserving a key piece of Jewish history.

The Musaf prayer for Rosh Hashanah in a page of the rare 15th century Lisbon Mahzor now at the National Library of Israel.
 ARIEL LAZARUS (in blue suit) and the Israeli Ladino Orchestra.

Bringing Ladino melodies to the Jewish Music Days Festival

  Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019.

Medieval synagogue discovered under Spanish church

 The interior of the Synagogue of Lorca in Murcia, Spain.

Spanish towns unearthing ancient synagogues for historical value, tourism


London lawmakers reject plan for high-rise building next to historic synagogue

The plan by developers would have replaced a seven-story building adjacent to the Bevis Marks synagogue in central London with a 48-story tower.

 Bevis Marks Synagogue, London

Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates community that once was

The synagogue building, the oldest surviving in Manchester, remained a communal symbol long after its congregation disintegrated in the 1980s. It became a museum.

Manchester street art

Portuguese citizenship for descendants of Sephardi Jews

Portugal’s Law of Return


In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide faith run the community

Mallorca’s tiny Jewish community is now stronger.

A 16TH-CENTURY manuscript by Spanish-born Jew Luis de Carvajal the Younger is displayed at a museum in Mexico City last, 2017

How an Orthodox cantor snagged a role on ‘Orange Is the New Black’

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Cantor Philip Sherman featured as one of “America’s Top Mohels” has another gig: actor.

Actress Lea DeLaria