Torah Scroll and Case

This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo (The People), mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul. The cartoon indicates two…

The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…