Even after a Southern California upbringing, it took a Portuguese village with megawaves to bring David Langer’s love of surfing home
A cornmeal kugel recipe from the island of Madeira, where the New World met the Old World
According to legend, the pork-free ‘alheira’ chorizo was created as a way for Jews to hide their identity. Whether or not that history has been exaggerated, it’s an important part of how Portugal is now wrestling with its Jewish past.
After 500 years, Portugal wants its Jews back, and some are coming
Herberto Hélder’s writing touched on the dark, mystic, and mythological
A vitriolic medieval manuscript illuminates how Google is destroying the act of reading
Aristides de Sousa Mendes lost his reputation and his home. Now the grandson of a man he saved tries to restore both.
Three rare medieval Hebrew Bibles on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York reveal the affinity between Sephardic and Islamic texts
Sotomayor or Cardozo?
