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Sephardic Exposure

When Joseph Benatov started showing Jewish travelers around his homeland in the 1990s, post-Communist Bulgaria was decidedly off the tourism radar. Visitors were generally Israelis with family ties to Bulgaria’s Sephardic community, or those seeking a cheap vacation (and a local guide to decipher the Slavic tongue). Two decades later, “it has changed so much, […]

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A Muslim Immigrant’s Memoir Strikes A Chord With A Jewish Reader

When Sabeeha Rehman came to the United States at age 20 — after an arranged marriage to a Pakistani-American doctor with whom she spoke for the first time on her wedding night — she expected to stay for two years. Forty years, two children and many adventures later, she is still in love and still […]

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