His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for ...

Shlissel challah is a special loaf baked the first sabbath after Passover. We trace the modern route by which the bread has ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...

Jews following the traditional customs of communities in Morocco, Algeria and North Africa concluded the 8 days of Pesach with a celebration that’s all about chametz and sweets. Held the day after ...

JIMENA, or Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, a nonprofit that advocates for Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews, spoke out against Pajaro Valley’s decision in a phone call with J. on April ...

For Jews with a passing familiarity with Bukele ... the president told Jerusalem’s then-mayor that Gabriela “has Jewish-Sephardic blood” on her grandfather’s side. (The couple have two daughters, ...

The status of Jews and Christians as ‘people of the book’ signifies ... ‘A Mesorti [traditionalist]-Mizrahi Approach to Travel the Middle Path’, that the Sephardic community, with its more robust ...

Originally built in 1749, the KKBE congregation has seen many seasons of Charleston. It’s the oldest continually-used synagogue in America and known as the birth place of Reformed Judaism.

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Saturday night, raising alarm in the Jewish community amid a series of disturbing antisemitic incidents. The attack came ...

If you go to synagogue — and if you pay attention to the rabbi’s sermon — do you expect them to talk about the Gaza war? Perhaps the latest news from the White House? According to a recent ...