Six people in Málaga were accused of exploiting a law intended for genuine descendants of Jews expelled from Spain.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews. “Goyim were born only to serve us.

In 1654, a group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New York City and established the first Jewish community in what was then called New Amsterdam. In 2024, ...

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.

In Hebrew, “Bayit” means “house” and “home.” We miss both – our physical “house” (apartment) in Herzliya, and our Jewish ...

Maimonides understood that we must live and face the realities of this non-Messianic era we live in – including the grim ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

The Jewish presence in Sarajevo dates to the late 15th century, when Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition found refuge under the protection of the Ottoman Empire.

The rabbi, Cantor Jen Benray, and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg served as his Beit Din (Hebrew for “house of judgment”) ...

According to the Association of Ethiopian Jews, basing his halachic decision on the legal precedent set by Rabbi David Ben Solomon Ibn Zimra in the 16th century, then-Sephardi chief rabbi Ovadia ...

As a Rabbi, I know Jewish people are under attack. Too many still look away. | Opinion We get it: Israel complicates things. However, our lives here in the United States should be worth protecting.

To many Jews, like myself, these attacks are terrifying, but not shocking. Antisemitism is surging. When antisemitic rhetoric is left unchecked, it costs lives and leaves others fighting for theirs.