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So too are the complex commercial, religious and family ties that bound the Sephardic Jewish community of St. Eustatius to the rest of the Atlantic world.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

He must also contend with pressure from his allies in the ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Shas party -- which has 11 lawmakers and has distanced itself from the government.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

"Sequencing studies show strong European ancestry in patients, supporting records of Portuguese, Dutch, and Sephardic Jewish presence in the region," says Santos.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

About 90% of a once-thriving community, most of them descendants of Sephardic Jews who fled Spain after 1492, perished in the Holocaust.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

When we’ve all finished, I break into a song by Flory Jagoda—a woman who was a champion of Sephardic music and sang in Ladino.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar