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in northern brazil, sephardic converts are giving dwindling jewish communities a new lease on life. many in brazil have converted to judaism under the supervision of gilberto venturas, an orthodox rabbi, shown here with his wife, recife, brazil (jta) — preparing to leave this city’s main jewish community center, sabrina scherb peeks beyond its blast-proof gate into a quiet street strewn with branches and shredded mango fruits. the debris, left over from an overnight tropical storm, is not what’s worrying scherb, a 22-year-old university student and volunteer dance instructor. “i’m looking to see if it’s… read. genetic study finds widespread sephardic ancestry in latin america. an orthodox colombian family shown in 2012. a new study revealed widespread sephardic genetic ancestry across latin american (jta) — in a genetic study of 6,589 people from five latin american countries, about a quarter displayed traces of what may be sephardic jewish ancestry. geneticist juan-camilo chacón-duque and his colleagues published their findings last week in nature communications magazine, in an article titled “latin americans show wide-spread… read more ». nelly ben-or risked all to play the piano. it helped her survive the holocaust. nelly ben-or sits by one of her two pianos in her london home, dec. 13, 2018. (cnaan liphshiz) london (jta) — like countless world-clas* pianists, nelly ben-or began playing piano at the age of 5 and never stopped. that discipline helped ben-or, 86, became an international concert pianist and the person most widely recognized for adapting the alexander technique for sinatra received the yarmulke at a fundraiser for a jewish school in new jersey in 1981. (courtesy of pauline schwartz) (jta) — when a huge auction was held at sotheby’s last month of items belonging to frank sinatra and his wife barbara, the item that made the most headlines was one of the smallest: a hand-knit yarmulke, owned by frank, which was purchased for nearly $10,000 by an