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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Ronit Treatman

Ronit Treatman

Illustration showing Jews burning during the Inquisition (public domain)
March 6, 2023, 4:48 pm
Inspired by Purim heroine Esther, Inquisition-era crypto-Jews feasted in her honor
Church records tell of a Jewish woman’s 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ‘St. Esther’s Feast’
By Ronit Treatman
Alejandro Bautista from Las Lomas Bakery was able to reproduce the 'pan de siete cielos.' From Puebla, the baker said that the bread reminded him of the symbolic Mexican breads introduced by Spanish conquistadors. (Ronit Treatman/Times of Israel)
June 12, 2016, 4:28 pm
From Spain to Salonika, a disappearing Shavuot tradition revisited
A Greek-Sephardic custom until the Nazis decimated the community, will the ‘bread of the seven heavens’ soon be the crumbs of history?
By Ronit Treatman
Veteran Jerusalemite families celebrate independence with mallow soup. (Ronit Treatman/The Times of Israel)
April 23, 2015, 12:21 pm
Mallow soup: a taste of independence
Surprisingly nutritious, the foraged greens served as a staple for families under siege during the fight for the Holy City
By Ronit Treatman
Detail of a historiated initial-word panel: Barukh (blessed) at the beginning of the benediction for the ending of the Shabbat (Havdalah ceremony). An elderly man lifts a goblet while performing the Havdalah blessing over a twisted candle held by a young boy. Origin: Catalonia/Barcelona (public domain)
March 22, 2015, 3:19 am
After 500 years, Catalonia’s haggadahs come home
Everything’s illuminated at new Jewish liturgical manuscripts exhibit in Barcelona
By Ronit Treatman
Ronit Treatman
January 27, 2015, 11:56 am
Ronit Treatman
Thanking my grandfather’s liberator
Leon Bass, an African American WWII veteran, has made it his mission to tell the story of what he witnessed
Saint Esther icon (courtesy)
March 16, 2014, 9:16 am
Queen Esther: Patron saint of crypto-Jews
Faced with threat of execution for Jewish observance, Sephardi conversos created the festival of Santa Esterica to replace Purim
By Ronit Treatman
November 9, 2012, 5:20 pm
Time to send a piece of the pie
A Thanksgiving dessert for IDF soldiers
By Ronit Treatman
The writer in one of the narrow alleys of the Call, used by her ancestors 520 years ago. (photo credit: courtesy)
June 28, 2012, 8:28 pm
Back in Girona, after 500 years
Using DNA analysis to reveal her ancestral routes, the writer retraces an enthralling chapter of her family history in Spain
By Ronit Treatman
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