Barisac Henri (24), son of Albert and Corine Behmoiras Behar Caroline (30), daughter of Avraam and Sultana Behar Marcelle (13), daughter of Vitalis and Elise Behar Behar Vitalis (43), son of Binyamin-Raphael and Malcouna Elmaleh Behmoaram Raphael, (47), son of Yomtov and Venezia...
read moreCompiled from various sources by Raphael Ventura Joseph Niego was a famous member of the Behmoiras family though he did not embrace a rabbinical career. His activity for the benefit of the Jewish community is taught in Israeli schools, and is well known among the Jews of...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura The immediate assumption of a Sephardic family is that its origins are in Spain. There are several reasons for us to believe that this was indeed our origin: We speak Ladino in the family for as far back as we remember The Appel – Meshulam branch has a...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura, February 20, 2003 personal statement writers The sequence of grand rabbis that forms the stem of our tree is as follows: Menahem Bar Isaac Ashkenazi (=MENAHEM I) (1666-1734)* Mordehai Bekhmohar Menahem (=MORDEHAI I) (1695-1748) Menahem Bekhmohar Mordehai...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura help writing a essay for college It took some reading and much thinking to solve some of the problems involved in the name Behmoiras. The name is definitely unusual, to say the least. The Hebrew language uses several honorific designations for rabbis. One of...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura The early “history” of our family, as is frequently the case, has a nucleus of historical truth, couched in a layer of myth and legend. The legend that was woven around the personalities of our ancestral figures, Rabbi Isaac Ashkenazi and his son...
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