If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What ...

During the early 1970s, Nina Weiner realized that if she were going to help Israeli Sephardim – Jews whose ancestors had immigrated to Israel from the Arab world, Asia and Africa – she would have to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in ...

MONTREAL — The Sephardic population of Quebec is beginning to make major inroads in the Jewish communal power structure, after insisting for decades that they were treated as “poor relations” by the ...

Moshe cannot be blamed if he’s a little bit confused. The kippa-clad Ethiopian immigrant protagonist of Zion Rubin’s 2001 film “Caravan 841” cannot figure out why his mother has not yet joined him in ...

Matti Friedman, the award-winning Israeli journalist and author, says he chose to write his latest book about a small group of Arabic-speaking Jewish spies in pre-1948 Israel for two reasons. It makes ...

Rabbi David Yosef during his visit to New YorkCourtesy of the photographer Rabbi David Yosef, Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on Wednesday night delivered a special speech to the Jewish community of ...

For the first time this year, Haim Taib, the son of Shoah survivors from Tunisia, lit a torch at the Auschwitz March of the Living. Jews survived six months of Nazi control in 1942 – 5,000 men were ...

When Menachem Begin`s right-wing Likud party came to power in 1977, ”I got my pride back,” declares Yoram Tzidkihayu, shoveling another bag of pickles into a customer`s hands at Jerusalem`s Old Market ...

On December 5, 2008, the New York Times reported that 20% of the population of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) has Sephardic Jewish ancestry and 11% has DNA markers reflecting ...

The Sephardic phenomenon : a reappraisal / Martin A. Cohen -- Stones of memory : revelations from a cemetery in Curaçao / Rochelle Weinstein -- Portuguese Sephardim in the Americas / Malcolm H. Stern ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The songs of the Sephardim, the Spanish Jewish tradition that developed after the Jews were expelled ...