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• Bringing back bakashot: Young Sephardic Jews embrace an old musical tradition

  May 6, 2014 1:49pm

  A new generation revives the practice of chanting bakashot, Sephardic liturgical poems praising and petitioning God.

• New genetic evidence links Spanish Americans of Southwest to Jews

  September 28, 2011 2:40pm

  A new study in the Journal of Human Genetics has turned up fresh scientific evidence that the Spanish Americans of the Southwest must have had some Jewish forbears.