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

In the Jewish community of Newport, Passover this year is bittersweet because of a major change at Touro Synagogue. A ...

Piñer points out that when Sephardic Jews left Spain for the Americas after the 1492 expulsion, they started using ingredients such as corn and chocolate, which didn’t yet exist in Europe.

The Magen David Sephardic Congregation in Rockville hosted Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter for a Shabbaton, emphasizing unity and resilience. Leiter's speeches inspired the community to stand ...

When we talk about Sephardic Jews in diaspora, we tend to focus on the cuisines that formed as the Jews of Spain and Portugal fled to other countries, from Turkey and Italy to Morocco, Mexico, and ...

Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...

In Sephardic Congregation of South Monsey v. Town of Ramapo, a previous case involving a rabbi’s residence located on the same property as the synagogue, the court granted an exemption ...

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

The Sephardic political resurgence mainly focused ... of all institutions that had largely been dominated by European Jews, starting with altering the system of checks and balances that had ...