Sephardim
'Inspirational Reflections for the Seder Night': A Haggadah for empty chairs at the table - review
With reflections and prayers for each stage of the Seder, this Haggadah invites you to engage with tradition, family, and your own journey of redemption.
Hinenu at 10 million: 100 lives that tell Israel’s real story
Tamara Cohen's ancestors were expelled from Spain, now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid
This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali
Yitzhak Yosef has no business being chief rabbi of Israel - opinion
Change system and criteria for choosing next chief rabbis long before the next vote in 2023
This duo has run a radio show on Sephardi Jewish culture for 35 years
Practically since they debuted, the pair have unwittingly become the guiding lights of Judeo-Spanish not only within Spain but across the Jewish world.
Memories of my Sephardi grandparents from Greece, Morocco and Brooklyn
Greek songs and stories, a book from Morocco, and one ruby-eyed snake ring.
Virtual Mimouna event to host famed Israeli artists, promote diversity
Besides a focus on North African Jewry, workshops will also feature Yemenite, Iraqi and Persian Jewish artists and teachers.
On This Day: Alhambra Decree begins tragic expulsion of Spanish Jewry
The Spanish Inquisition's Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492 ordered "Jews and Jewesses of our kingdoms to depart and never to return or come back."
How two Sephardi families helped create Hong Kong, Shanghai business hubs
Kaufman’s book, which weaves a page turner of a tale, restores the two legendary families from Baghdad to their rightful place as masters of their universe during a bygone era.
Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi denigrates Reform conversions
“What is Reform conversion? It isn’t Jewish,” Yitzhak Yosef said, in a video published by Kikar Hashabbat.
Moroccan Jewish community thrown out of longtime Jerusalem synagogue
The synagogue is the last place of worship for the Moroccan community in the German Colony.
David Gitlitz, 78, scholar of Sephardic Jewish history, dies
Gitlitz, who died of complications from COVID-19 on Dec. 30, in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he lived in retirement, began his career as a professor of Spanish language and literature.
Family recipes helped me discover my hidden Sephardi history
I only found out that my family was actually Jewish as a teenager, that all our colorful, fragrant, crunchy dishes were deeply rooted in Judaic culinary traditions from 16th-century Spain.
