Have you ever met a Sephardic Jew? Ever met one? I am not talking about a political Sephardi or a “wanna be,” I am talking about an authentic ethnic Sephardi that proudly identifies and lives a ...

According to the study, 79% of educators report feeling comfortable teaching about other cultures, but only 31% feel confident in their knowledge of both Sephardi and Mizrahi culture and history.

Last year, Spain announced that it would provide a fast track to citizenship for Sephardic Jews—Jews of Spanish descent (the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492). While there hasn't been movement ...

For a good part of their history, Jews were a stateless people, repeatedly finding themselves fleeing or expelled from countries even long after they had put down roots. Now, some of those nations are ...

Attempting to pin down the essence of the Sephardic spirit is akin to trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Is it a religious outlook? A political viewpoint? An embracing of cultural traditions and mores?

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LISBON - The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews, which include validation of the connection to Portugal by an ...

He said the accomplishment of which he was most proud was working to bring 400 Jewish women who wanted to marry within their faith to the United States from Syria in 1977. (JTA) — Stephen Shalom, a ...

Upon proving Sephardic heritage, descendants of the expellees can obtain a Portuguese passport. Originally, there was to be a time limit on the law, like in Spain, where Sephardic descendants had a ...

The Sephardic singer’s new album was inspired by an invitation from non-Jews in North Macedonia to perform her original Ladino songs in the birthplace of her grandfather and a 104-year-old cousin. At ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. According to a 2012 head count, of the 1.1 million Jews living in New York ...

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni on Monday called on the Shas party to open additional schools for Sephardic students in the city of Beit Shemesh so that “your girls” don’t need to “crowd into our ...