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Joel Benoliel

Have Sephardic roots? They could get you ‘home’ to Spain

2015-03-26
By: Federation
On: March 26, 2015
In: Local News

By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Part two in a series about a new law that may allow Sephardic Jews to return “home” to Spain. Seattle’s Sephardic population has expanded exponentially since Vivian Kahn Blum’s grandparents, Behor and Behora Chiprut, arrived in 1909, yet it is too smallContinue Reading

Chiprut in car

One family’s thousand-year history, from Spain to Seattle and back again

2015-03-12
By: Federation
On: March 12, 2015
In: Local News

By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Vivian Blum has a story to tell. It starts in Spain in the 900s, moves to Turkey in 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, and lands in the United States in 1909, where it remains to this day. Soon thereContinue Reading

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