Ladino
New on Rikers Island: a Jewish prayerbook designed with incarcerated congregants in mind
The one-of-a-kind siddur features bright colors, bold text and an amalgam of Hebrew, English, Russian and Ladino prayers, as well as meditations on healing and recovery and poems.
The matriarchal language: Ladino singer Nani Vazana on her rise to fame
Jerusalem to host its first ever – soon to be annual – Ladino music festival
Bringing Ladino melodies to the Jewish Music Days Festival
Idina Menzel’s Christmas album features a Ladino Hanukkah song
Ariana Grande, Billy Porter, and Menzel's fellow Frozen co-star Josh Gad are all featured on the album.
The fight to keep Ladino alive
On island getaway, Turkish Jews fight to keep their ancestral language alive.
Fundamentally Freund: Don’t let Ladino die
Ladino and all that it embodies are part and parcel of our people’s long and winding journey on the historical stage.
Digging for gold
The Tor Hazahav festival in Ashdod presents stellar performers from all Israeli musical genres
An Israeli musician to release the first Ladino pop album
“Ladino was something of a forbidden language at our home,” Vazana said. To her father, a Fes native, it represented the opposite of fitting into Israeli society, Noam Vazana explained.
Keeping the Ladino tradition close to the heart
Multifaceted Israeli artist Esti Keinan Ofri makes her debut at the Oud Festival with a program presenting a selection of her melodies.
An opportunity to further Israeli-Latin American ties
Spain to boost protection of 'severely endangered' Ladino language
"The idea isn't to absorb Ladino into modern Spanish, it's the opposite: to preserve it."
