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Try this savory Turkish-Jewish dish this hanukkah.
What do you wish people knew about your Mizrachi/MENA/Sephardi identity/culture?
Finding the right way to taste tradition.
Grappling with finding a balance in how to most respectfully practice and reclaim my cultural heritage, I’ve found power in crafting my own traditions — recipes as food rituals.
My vision now is not of my own success, but of continuing to build out this community. Sephardic culture is world culture.
I’m not sure who is more surprised, me or my mother, that my career in Ladino continues to flourish two decades on.
Twenty years ago, I told my mother that I wanted to start a Ladino rock band.
In honor of Mizrachi heritage month, we invited comedian and artist Natan Badalov, a proud Bukharian Jew, to share some of his childhood memories. He was featured on Adult Swim, New York Comedy Festival, Funnymmigrants Comedy Festival, and others. For more info, read his bio or follow him and his eyebrows on Instagram and Tik Tok @natanbadalov.
If ever there was a time for celebrating the depth and riches of Ethiopian culture, and Ethiopian food in particular, the holiday of Sigd is it.