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

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 ...

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

Our recent Pesach Seder, hosted by Rabbi Dr. Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota’s esteemed family in Santiago—the Dominican Republic’s ...

Leavened bread and bread products were burned in a fire Friday at Congregation Brith Sholom in Bethlehem to prepare for the Jewish Passover holiday. This year, Passover begins at sundown April 12.

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 ...

The court ruled a New York congregation can evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which has worshiped at Touro Synagogue for more than a century NEWPORT, R.I. — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ...

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.

At the time of the Declaration of Independence (1776), there were already 1,500 to 2,500 Jews in the British colonies that would become the United States, mostly descendants of Sephardic immigrants ...

When we sit down to read the Haggadah during the first Seder on Saturday night, we will be discussing the story of Jews’ refusal to be used in a tyrant’s narrative. The story of Passover is ...

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 ...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld a ruling allowing Congregation Shearith Israel to evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel from Touro Synagogue in Newport. Congregation Shearith Israel plans a ...