These Jewish activists work as translators for migrants to fight ‘language violence’

(JTA) — In 2018, a caravan of Central American migrants approached the United States through Mexico, stoking both fears and compassion.  Ariel Koren, an interpreter who was translating for separated families near the U.S.-Mexico border at the time, saw a bureaucracy intent on discouraging immigration by making the process nearly impossible for non-English speakers. She […]

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For 35 years, this mother-daughter duo has run a radio show on Ladino and Sephardic Jewish culture from Madrid

MADRID (JTA) — Matilde Gini de Barnatán and her daughter Viviana Rajel Barnatán didn’t set out to make Jewish history in Spain. In the 1960s and ’70s, Matilde, now 85, established herself in Argentina as a prominent researcher, teacher and scholar of the history of Sephardic culture and the Spanish Inquisition in Ibero-America. Her extensive […]

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