As I told in an early entry: Neither am I a descendant of a Polish or Lebanese Jewish family, but of marranos, or as they used to call derogatorily all those judeoconverts who practiced their Judaism ...

Legumes (kitniot)CC-BY-3.0 CSIRO via Wikimedia Commons To the first question: Is it permissible to do away with a custom? The answer: Yes! Many rabbinic authorities have ruled that it is permitted ...

Former Hamas hostage Avera Mengistu, who was freed in February, attended Sigd prayers in Jerusalem for the first time.

Water cannons fired as ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israel military draft - Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour of San Antonio businesses Scientists Studied 'SuperAgers' For 25 Years And ...

Muslim convert Jordan Richardson was planning an 'atrocity', with possible targets including Meadowhall shopping centre, near Sheffield, a trial at Leeds Crown Court heard. He also "regularly ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could ...

Without the kitniyot issues, we would be one more step closer to being simply “Jews of Israel”, instead of being Ashkenazi or Sephardi Jews, or Jews from Morocco, Ethiopia, or India.

People of Ashkenazi heritage have a one in 40 chance of having a BRCA gene mutation and those of Sephardi heritage have a one in 140 chance ...

“He invited Sephardi Jews to settle here after their expulsion from Spain,” Habib said. “Over time, the Jews themselves lost track of who was Romaniote and who was Sephardi.” Despite Rhodes being part ...