Getting Emotional in Barcelona, 1320: Visual Expressions of the Emotional Life of Sephardic Jewry  The magnificent manuscripts illuminated for medieval Sephardi Jews often depict the characters of the biblical narratives embodying a rich spectrum of emotions. This is accomplished through the thinnest of lines on the parchment leaves—in spaces only centimeters high—showing furrowed brows, pouting […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Stanley Mirvis talking about "The Sephardic Caribbean: Plantations, Slavery, and Colony" . In this talk Dr. Stanley Mirvis, Assistant Professor of history and the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University, will discuss his anticipated new book: The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Laura Arnold Leibman talking about “Giving Sephardic Women a Voice" Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. In her new book, The Art of the Jewish Family, Dr Laura Arnold Leibman, of Reed University, Oregon, examines […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Eliezer Papo talking about Sephardim and Ottoman Jewry in the Modern State: How They Helped Create The World We Know Today. Elizer Papo is a Senior Lecturer Ben-Gurion University in the Department of Hebrew Literature. He is the Chairman of Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture. He is the President […]