Paraguayan-born gynecologist in Los Angeles who saw that the Jewish world had no center devoted to Sephardic heritage and founded one, the Sephardic Educational Center, in 1979. He bought three historic buildings in Jerusalem's Old City, steps from the Kotel, and built chapters from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles; by the late 1990s some 16,000 young people had studied there. "We aim to educate the Sephardic world about their Jewish roots," he said. Rabbi Daniel Bouskila later succeeded him as its director.
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