Casa Sefarad

08/14/2026

tonight - esta noche
Sefardic Shabbat 6:30-8:30pm NAHALAT SHALOM
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Our monthly celebration and vegetarian potluck dinner features songs and prayers in Hebrew, Ladino, Spanish and English.

After the songs and prayers, we continue our bilingual poetry series. Albuquerque’s fifth poet laureate, special guest Mary Oishi will be reading the work of Japanese/American poet/activist Janice Mirikitani.

Nos vemos!

📸📸: mk.

07/30/2026

Bendito verano! and we hope your Tu B’av was full of delight. As this holiday is oriented around love and renewal, more keenly, courting the divine dynamism of love and all possibilities of life - Here is a selection from our Sefardic Learning Center library ✨

🌹Lyrical Eroticism in Judeo-Spanish songs and spirit of The Song of Songs in Sephardic Ballads by Silvia Hamui Sutton.

06/02/2026

a glimpse into our Thursday and Friday evenings of the Festival ✨ highlights include Fragments of Ritual and Memory opening reception poetry, pan de siete cielos, and placing our prayers and stories of remembrance into the Nahalat Shalom adobe wall before its next re-mudding. ¡Muchas gracias!

05/26/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G_zpn9brXA

This week on Studio 505, we hostedtThe Sephardic Borderlands Ensemble. They are an Albuquerque-based musical collaboration that blends Sephardic Jewish hymns...

05/24/2026

My sweets will be at .nm 's 17th annual Festival Sefardi on May 21 (or until they're gone) at
Come celebrate New Mexico's hidden Jewish history with music, poetry, stories, and art!

05/22/2026

Este Domingo ✨

María dice:

I was raised with my parents and grandparents, on both sides of the family, telling me that I was a mestiza, a mixed blood, half of this and half of that. One half of my lineage was “Spanish” and the other half “indigenous”.

We were practicing Catholics from time immemorial, some more Catholic than others. Then again, we had strange customs. For example, we made our tamales with beef, never pork. Vestigial traces of long ago? Perhaps.

This conglomeration of ancestors are clamoring to tell their side of the migration stories that I carry in my blood, in my genealogical family tree, in my ancestral memory.

“Are you Jewish?” someone asked me not too long ago. After you participate in this journey with me, maybe you will be able to answer the question better than I can.

05/21/2026

The Sephardic Borderlands Ensemble
🌹 Concert Teaser 🌹
Catch them live Sunday 5/24 730-9p in the Sanctuary
Concert included in day and weekend pass
Purchasing advance ticket saves you $5

05/21/2026

Please Join us Sunday May 24th, 12:30-1:30p in the Sanctuary for this opening dialogue ~

Querencia honors the wisdom of the land. Querencia is a place where one’s heart can take root. What is our responsibility to the Querencia of this place?

Three community leaders & cultural educators talk about healing wounded histories, respeto con permiso, braided identities, and the ways diaspora and solidarity with Indigenous-led movements is a form of Querencia.

Por favor, acompáñenos el domingo 24 de mayo, de 12:30 a 1:30 p. m., en el Santuario para este diálogo inaugural ~

Querencia honra la sabiduría de la tierra. Querencia es un lugar donde el corazón puede echar raíces. ¿Cuál es nuestra responsabilidad hacia la Querencia de este lugar?

Tres líderes comunitarios y educadores culturales conversarán sobre la sanación de historias heridas, el *respeto con permiso*, las identidades entrelazadas y las formas en que la diáspora —así como la solidaridad con los movimientos liderados por pueblos indígenas— constituyen una manifestación de Querencia.