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

Thessaloniki Jews were publicly humiliated by the Nazis. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-168-0895-03A, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikipedia Commons On March 15, Greece commemorated the anniversary of the 1943 ...

At the time of writing, when googled, the Wikipedia definition of Zionism is that “Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinians ...

Wikipedia has come under fire after replacing its entry on Zionism, ... derogatory & erases or misconstrues the experiences ...

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, ...

Besmann focused on the cyclical history of the Jews in Knoxville after noting that the first Jews that settled in North America arrived in 1656. They were descendants of the Sephardic Jews that were ...

A new study funded by a grant of more than $13 million from the US National Institutes of Health will look into possible genetic reasons why Sephardic Jews are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease ...

The Portuguese parliament approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews on Friday, Jan.5, 2024.

The Doodle celebrates the 116th birthday of Altina “Tina” Schinasi, the Sephardic Jewish artist, inventor and New Yorker who devised the distinctive eyeglasses.

The role of Jews in the early history of England’s fried fish trade and chip shops, however, is a whole other story. The recipe (Source: Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy , 1758) ...

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 ...

Following the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 thousands of Sephardic Jews fled Spain and settled in Thessaloniki which was then under the Ottoman Empire. As Saltiel points out, the new arrivals, although ...