“Many Sephardic exiles and their descendants proudly clung to the beautiful culture they had developed in Spain. Thus, even 500 years later, there are still Sephardim who speak Ladino, the Jewish version of Spanish, which contains many Hebrew words.”
chabad.org/library/articl…
chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1638603964353486855
“Following the composition (and publication) of the Zohar, the most significant advancement of the Kabbalah was due to the prolific and Divinely inspired teachings of the cadre of Kabbalists who lived in 16th-century Safed (Tzefat). These men were all Sephardim.”
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1638602376356536322
“Sephardic Jews were always more mystically inclined than their Ashkenazic brethren, as evidenced by the fact that the majority of the famed Jewish mystics were Sephardic.”
chabad.org/library/articl…
chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1635457658281947140
“Jews began to trickle into England, and for a long time the majority of Anglo Jewry was of Sephardic stock. A prime example is Sir Moses Montefiore, the British knight who traveled the world to assist Jews everywhere.”
chabad.org/library/articl…
chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1642307713609678849
“It was no accident, some say, that Columbus set sail on the very same day that the Jews were expelled from Spain… The Caribbean, Latin America, and even North America were settled by Sephardim. The first Jews in what would become the US and Canada were of Sephardic origin.”
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1620569029092982784
“History of the Jewish community of North America actually begins with the founding of Shearith Israel in New Amsterdam in 1654… Other communities developed; All were Spanish and Portuguese, stemming from the ex-Marrano or Western Sephardi tradition.”
bjpa.org/content/upload…
bjpa.org/content/upload…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1622731670490161152
“According to Ezra Stiles, Aaron Lopez "did business with the greatest ease and clearness, always carried about a sweetness of behaviour, a calm urbanity, an agreeable and unaffected politeness of manners.”
bjpa.org/content/upload…
bjpa.org/content/upload…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1565091013445558274
“Many prominent Ashkenazi families, such as the houses of Epstein, Horowitz, and Rappoport, can all be traced to Spanish refugees.”
17 Facts About Ashkenazi Jews: chabad.org/library/articl…
17 Facts About Ashkenazi Jews: chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1649592303110049795
“Salomon responded “I want nothing for myself, rather something for my people.” Although there is little proof, many believe it is for this reason that the 13 stars are arranged in the shape of the Star of David.”
Sephardic Jews: chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1651316240659406851
“Dembitz immigrated to the United States, along with relatives named Brandeis and Wehle, in response to the failed 1848 liberal revolutions in Central Europe… By 1865, the Jewish population of the US was up to more than 150,000.”
Jews of America:
Jews of America:
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1574024842067775488
“Columbus’ voyage was not funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos, Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchezand, and Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel.”
The “Golden” Age of Spain: timesofisrael.com/christopher-co…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1562912505504354311
“The Zohar states that one particularly auspicious time for the Redemption to begin is in the year 1648. Indeed, Jews at that time waited fervently for the arrival of Mashiach.”
The Sabbatean Heresy: mayimachronim.com/the-zohar-prop…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1642493691301449732
“Cromwell granted many individual Jews the right to settle in London. Menasseh himself was honored by the British Protector and sent off with a farewell present.”
Menashe Ben Israel - Prophecy, Jews of America Before Mashiach: chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1645757629128404993
The History of the Jews of the Iberia Peninsula:
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1685266660373020673
“In 1932, President Herbert Hoover appointed Benjamin Nathan Cardozo to the Supreme Court of the United States. Cardozo was the second Jew, after Louis D. Brandeis, to serve on the nation’s highest court.”
Benjamin Cardozo: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-cardo…
Benjamin Cardozo: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-cardo…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1634516192856535041
“Judah Philip Benjamin was born in St. Croix of the Danish West Indies… His parents were Sephardi Jews who married in London, Philip Benjamin (who had been born on the British colony of Nevis) and the former Rebecca de Mendes.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1743647162381033801
“On May 28, the festival of Shavuot, Stiles was again in the synagogue, and this time he had the pleasure of hearing a sermon preached by Carigal in "Spanish" (Ladino?) which lasted for forty-seven minutes.”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-hebrew-cam…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1565091013445558274
“Monis was born in Italy in 1683, into a family of formerly Portuguese conversos. Educated at Jewish academies in Italy and Holland, Monis emigrated to NYC around 1715, where he taught Hebrew.”
North America's First Instructor of Hebrew: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-monis
North America's First Instructor of Hebrew: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-monis
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1671179377038458887
“PEIXOTTO, U.S. family of Sephardi origin. DANIEL LEVI MADURO PEIXOTTO (1800–1843), a physician, was born in Amsterdam, and was taken to New York in 1807 by his father MOSES LEVI MADURO PEIXOTTO (1767–1828).”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/peixotto
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/peixotto
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1735376732939509784
“Morais was born in Livorno, Italy. The Morais family came originally from Portugal, being probably among the large number of Jews who fled thence from the Inquisition.”
Abraham Lincoln, The Bible, and Leadership: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabato_Mo…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1742603065935466889
“A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia during the war, Jonas Phillips and his wife had a total of twenty-one children… A notable grandson was Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Phi…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744407703454175707
“Sheftall helped build the synagogue for the Congregation Mikveh Israel… In 1790, Sheftall became president of Congregation Mickve Israel, a position he held for five years.”
Highest Ranking Jewish Officer of the Colonial Forces: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1679244785041776649
“If the honourable Convention shall in their Wisdom think fit and alter the said oath and leave out the words to viz… then the Israelites will think themself happy to live under a government where all Religious societys are on an Eaquel footing.”
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wash…
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wash…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1745036592350163115
“Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels were Sephardic, descended from Jews who had left Spain and Portugal… Moses Hays served as second parnas (vice-president) of Congregation Shearith Israel in 1766 and parnas in 1767.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mic…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1642495785982935040
“G‑d imprinted principles of truth and justice… Our shared trust in G‑d leads to E Pluribus Unum, generating the potential to weld the different elements of our society into a comprehensive whole.”
13 Colonies, Mercy Attributes: chabad.org/therebbe/artic…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1711758583442858180
“The separation of light from darkness, as governed by α, is intrinsic to the creation story… Not only does it have a gematria value 1776, but the mysterious 137 also makes an appearance.”
1776 - Declaration of Independence: biblegematria.com/the-mysterious…
1776 - Declaration of Independence: biblegematria.com/the-mysterious…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1679170420057030667
“Wolf and Peixotto also worked as political agents for Democratic Party boss August Belmont, the U. S. representative of the Rothschild banks… His paternal ancestors were Spanish Jews who fled the Iberian peninsula.”
larouchepub.com/eiw/public/199…
haaretz.com/jewish/2015-11…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744446185559978081
“Bevis Marks is the oldest Jewish house of worship in London, established by Sephardic Jews in 1698. At that time the worshipers met in a small synagogue in Cree Church lane; but the considerable influx of Jews made it necessary to obtain other quarters.”
sandpcentral.org/bevis-marks
sandpcentral.org/bevis-marks
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1645081163596218369
“Rabbi Morris is the Rabbi of Bevis Marks Synagogue. He received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.”
Secrets of Touro, America’s Oldest Synagogue, Newport RI: sephardi.org.uk/about/rabbis/r…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746234955946983592
“Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation in the United Kingdom, Oxford linguist and historian… The initial meetings that laid the groundwork for the Balfour Declaration took place in his presence.”
balfour100.com/biography/mose…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1731990559735103696
“Baruch’s Southern roots ran deep. His mother’s family were Sephardic Jews descended from Isaac Rodriguez Marques. Marques, believed to have immigrated from Denmark, established a booming shipping business in NY in the 1690s.”
abbevilleinstitute.org/bernard-baruch…
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bernard-baruch
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746948676663054780
“Simeon Magruder Levy, also known as Simon Levy, was an officer in the United States Army. He was the second overall graduate and first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy (West Point).”
haaretz.com/jewish/2015-10…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1745036592350163115
“David Levy Yulee was born on the island of St. Thomas to a Sephardic Jewish family; his father was a trader from Morocco and his mother, also of Sephardi descent, was born in Sint Eustatius and raised in St. Thomas.”
The First Jewish Senator: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-first-jewi…
The First Jewish Senator: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-first-jewi…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744407703454175707
“Gershom Mendes Seixas was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. He served as the hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City's first Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, for about five decades.”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/seixas
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/seixas
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746234955946983592
“A patriot during the Revolutionary War, Seixas helped reestablish Columbia College after the war and was the only Jewish trustee until 1928, when Benjamin Cardozo (CC 1889), who later attended the Law School, joined the board.”
news.columbia.edu/news/columbia-…
news.columbia.edu/news/columbia-…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744453580956791158
“The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) was founded in 1886 through the efforts of two distinguished rabbis, Sabato Morais and Henry Pereira Mendes, along with a group of prominent lay leaders from Sephardic congregations in Philadelphia and New York.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Th…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Th…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744790171071975921
“The 23 marble relief portraits over the gallery doors of the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol depict historical figures noted for their work in establishing the principles that underlie American law.”
Maimonides, Relief Portrait: aoc.gov/explore-capito…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1683979768021110785
“Emma Lazarus is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Laza…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Laza…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1743642978264981748
“Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal was an itinerant Palestinian rabbi and preacher. He is the first rabbi known to have visited the colonies that became the United States.”
Sepharad and Jerusalem Intertwined: en.hebron.org.il/history/363
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1645759651378524161
“Joseph Jonas, an English-born jeweler, was the first Jew to settle west of the Allegheny Mountains.… He and his brother Abraham both married daughters of Gershom Mendes Seixas.”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jonas-joseph
brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarn…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1636002232696020992
“In the metaphorical terminology of the Kabbala and Chasidut, chochma is called Abba and bina is called Imma.
Daat is called "Ben" ("son"), i.e. the offspring of this union of chochma and bina.”
Kabbalah, Founding of America: chabad.org/library/articl…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746875234559406130
“In 1764, Stiles helped establish Brown University by contributing to the drafting of its charter and by serving with 35 others as a founding fellow or trustee… In 1778, he was invited to become President of Yale.”
caas.yale.edu/our-founders/e…
caas.yale.edu/our-founders/e…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1748657118213775870
“We have made an effort to bring to life some of the forgotten women who shaped the Colonial American experience. This includes Mary Lago, the Sephardic Jewish mother of the Quakers’ founder George Fox.”
The Colonial Cabbala: dnaconsultants.com/news/johnny-de…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1677416473264783360
“In 1492, she writes to reflect her thoughts and experiences concerning the “two-faced” year of the ‘New World’ from her own double-sided view as both a Jewish and American woman in the US.”
Emma Lazarus - The Sephardic Diaspora: pressbooks.pub/timothydrobbin…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1748522855006974053
“Maurice Nessim studied in the AIU School in Thessaloniki. In 1910 Nessim was appointed the secretary of The Socialist Federation in Thessaloniki which was founded following the 1908 Young Turk Revolution.”
US, Sephardic Jews: esefarad.com/old-newspapers…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1760412994461188602
“Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was an outspoken advocate on behalf of Israel’s security and against anti-Semitism, especially among the African-American community.”
Black-Jewish Relations: Martin Luther King & Israel: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-luther-…
Black-Jewish Relations: Martin Luther King & Israel: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-luther-…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1752486336651510216
“The Great Gatsby presents the conflict of Old Money vs. New Money. Gatsby has acquired the enormous house, the garish clothes, and the fast cars… Tom Buchanan, on the other hand, is Old Money.”
Jewish Identity in America: ivy-style.com/the-great-gats…
muse.jhu.edu/pub/60/oa_edit…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744497295180140545
“In Paris, he worked with Bruno Walter. Walter recommended Abravanel as a guest conductor at the Paris Opera, and he was able to cast, rehearse, and conduct Mozart's Don Giovanni there.”
Sephardic Jews - The Abravanel Family: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_A…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1764787085611864220
“The few Ashkenazi Jews who lived in England tended to belong to the "Antients" on account of their generally lower social class, while the more established Sephardim joined the Moderns.”
Masonic History: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Ma…
masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1771080674306310530
“The established Jewish community in the city was largely Sephardic, and Belmont himself disfavored associations with the small, lower-class Ashkenazi community. His social companions were largely young rebellious men from well-to-do families.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Be…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Be…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746948676663054780
“The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America was founded as a lay synagogue federation in 1898 by Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes. Founding members were predominately modern, Western-educated Orthodox rabbis and lay leaders.”
Henry Pereira Mendes: ou.org/life/community…
Henry Pereira Mendes: ou.org/life/community…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1748085898330202335
“They were expelled from Brazil in 1654 and took up their residence in NYC… Joshua Seixas, the Hebrew teacher hired by Joseph Smith, came from this Sephardic, Dutch, Brazilian, Jewish community.”
byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-ch…
millennialstar.org/sephardic-jews…
gnosis.org/jskabb3.htm
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1748794075602423914
“The first Jews to arrive to the United States of America were Sephardim, Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent, many of whom made their journey in order to escape forced conversion in their native lands around 1550.”
Congress Honors Sephardic Jewry: thefriedlandergroup.com/congress-honor…
Congress Honors Sephardic Jewry: thefriedlandergroup.com/congress-honor…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1752382912128041374
“Francis Salvador was born to Jacob Salvador and his wife in London, where a Spanish and Portuguese Jewish (Sephardic) community had developed since the 17th century… In 1776, he was the first Jew killed in the American Revolutionary War.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_S…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_S…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1679244785041776649
“Joseph Salvador's ancestors had escaped persecution during the Portuguese Inquisition and migrated to the Netherlands. From there they immigrated to London, England. He lobbied for the 1753 Jew Bill to extend full citizenship and civil rights to Jews.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sa…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sa…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1685266660373020673
“Quoting the Bible’s Old Testament, Washington wrote, every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Washington’s Letter to the Jews of Newport: tourosynagogue.org/history/george…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1795744574528446467
“The Coronel family remained one of the most important families of Segovia in the sixteenth century. Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–57) dedicated his book, Conciliador, to Perez Coronel… Notable descendants include Benjamin Cardozo.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1744453580956791158
“Noah was born July 1785, in Philadelphia of Portuguese Jewish ancestry. His father served with General Marion in the Revolutionary War and contributed a considerable sum of money to the cause.”
Adams Embraces A Jewish Homeland: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mordecai-manue…
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/president-john…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1810041632433021225
“But perhaps, although different, the fight for independence against the Romans that preceded the destruction was not entirely unlike America’s fight for independence from the British.”
The 17th Of Tammuz And The 4th Of July: torchweb.org/torah_detail.p…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1746880789990588619
“Bartlett was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1824, the son of Sarah E. Melhado and Cosam Emir Bartlett. His mother was Sephardic. Unlike the second elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander of Idaho, Bartlett was not particularly religious.”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/washington-bar…
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/washington-bar…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1818253503128564123
“Louis Abolafia’s candidacy for president of the US was under the Nudist Party on the hippie Love Ticket… He was a "descendant of the Abolafias—writers of the Kabbala".”
First Person of Sephardic Jewish Ancestry to Run for President of the United States: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-politic…
First Person of Sephardic Jewish Ancestry to Run for President of the United States: jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-politic…
https://twitter.com/drandelson/status/1683985143210418176
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