I have always been interested in the history of my hometown of Antalya. In particular, elements of the city's cosmopolitan past have always deeply intrigued me. At the start of the 20th century, the ...

Located in Istanbul's Üsküdar district, the neighborhood of Kuzguncuk has long been populated by the city's Jewish community, though shrinking in number in recent years. The neighborhood is literally ...

Hadith number 6985 of the 41 st book from the Hadith collection known as Sahih Muslim, compiled by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj native of Nishapur in modern-day eastern Iran, reads as follows: Abu Huraira ...

Sephardic Center of Istanbul's books and CDs are now being sold on this website where also various pieces of information and events will be broadcasted. Subscribing to El Amaneser, the Ladino magazine ...

I am very happy. I studied for four and a half years for this book. I had listed what I wanted to know. For example, I was wondering about the defamation of Atatürk’s being an English spy. Our minds ...

Cemal Sureya had once put it so eloquently: “In short, we are all bad. We don’t like each other. We are hypocrites.” We must also hand it to Theodor Adorno. Even postmodernism that puts the mind one ...

Two weeks ago Sunday, while I was getting ready to take a tour of Galata district, one of the writers from our newspaper told me that while she was doing the same tour, she stopped to browse around ...

Izmir Alsancak Şaar Aşamayim Synagogue which was rebuilt and turned into a ´Jewish Community Center´ has opened its doors with a ceremony on December 1st. Alsancak Şaar Aşamayim Synagogue which was ...

The culture and traditions of Turkish Jewish community, the fading Judeo-Espanyol (Ladino) language spoken by Sephardic Jews and the Sephardic cuisine were introduced to visitors through concerts, ...

UOML (Ulus Private Jewish High School) graduate Yosi Kohen Kutucu, who is currently studying at British Columbia University in Canada, won second place in an engineering competition. His winning ...

Eski Anadolu’nun geniş toprakları, tarihin en zengin ve çeşitli topluluklarını barındırmış, ancak bu kültürel çeşitlilik uzun ...

Floridalı bir Yahudi (Mordechai Brafman) Miami Beach´te içinde "iki Filistinli" olduğunu iddia ettiği bir araca ateş açtıktan ...