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Six people in Málaga were accused of exploiting a law intended for genuine descendants of Jews expelled from Spain.
Wikipedia has come under fire after replacing its entry on Zionism, ... derogatory & erases or misconstrues the experiences ...
Other Sephardic Jews fled to South America. In 1654 a few reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog—North America’s first.
When Sephardic Jews arrived from the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) — when Azaria’s grandparents fled their native Salonika (Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece) — U.S ...
The rabbi, Cantor Jen Benray, and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg served as his Beit Din (Hebrew for “house of judgment”) ...
When Sephardic Jews recite selichot, even though the content is serious and one can say it’s even somber, there is a joy to the way that we recite selichot.
(Photo by Tom Pich/Wikipedia/Creative Commons) David I. Klein. November 20, 2023 ... the music of Sephardic Jews was in danger of being lost forever.
Sephardic Jews are descendants of the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East. Until the 1400s, these areas were largely controlled by Muslims, who allowed Jews to move and live ...
Yiddish, which combined Hebrew with primarily Medieval German, was only spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When they were busy “noshing” (eating) and “kvetching” (complaining). Sephardic Jews had a ...
Sephardic date charoset. Ingredients. 1 lb. pitted Medjool dates, coarsely chopped. Zest and juice of one orange. 1/4 cup lemon juice. 1/2 tsp cinnamon ...
A Democratic congressman and the Anti-Defamation League were among the groups to criticize the Wikipedia entry ... the experiences of millions of Jews, including Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Sephardic, ...