Montreal commemorates Yom HaPlitim, a day to remember Jewish refugees from Arab lands
More than 60 percent of the 37,000 Canadian Sephardis live in the city.
Sephardi women take centre stage in two new coming-of-age novels reviewed by Hannah Srour-Zackon
KantikaElizabeth Graver(Metropolitan Books) The Marriage BoxCorie Adjmi(She Works Press) When I think about the English-language Jewish literary landscape, I also notice what’s missing: the stories of Sephardi Jews. Few people are aware that the very first Jews to come to North America were of Western Sephardic background. And yet, despite a centuries-long presence, there has […]
