____________________________________________________ By Linda Capeloto Sendowski BEVERLY HILLS, California—Hot from the sizzling oil, dripping with warm, lemon scented, honey syrup the bumuelo is a Sephardic tradition.  That first bite of sweet crispy goodness is worth the calorie conscious guilt I will feel after eating this traditional goodie. Bumuelos also known as birmuelos, as burmuelos, depending on […]

Interior of Musmeah Yeshua ________________________________________________ By Sammy Samuels YANGON, Myanmar–Jewish life in Burma today is quite different from what it was during colonial times, which lasted until World War II.  Before the war, it still was the case that “the sun never set” on the British Empire, including in Southeast Asia. Jewish merchants, who migrated

By Steve Hofstetter NEW YORK — I imagine it’s much more difficult to be a Jew on Christmas than it is to be a Christian on Hanukah. You don’t find many Hanukah specials about families  getting stranded in an airport learning the true meaning of the menorah. But if there were lots of Hanukah specials,