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.

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 ...

Digital page from the online exhibition “100 Years of Sephardic Life in Los Angeles.” Image courtesy of UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaire’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the “national Jewish ...

MADRID — Spain’s government said Thursday it will extend the deadline for descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country more than 500 years ago, who have launched the process of acquiring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...