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

The 12th-century Kiddush cup, which sheds light on the little-known Jewish community of eastern Khorasan, went for $4 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time,” said singer and Kanisse community member Galeet Dardashti. When Galeet Dardashti leads Kol Nidre services this year, she’ll be drawing on the ...

Their ancestors came from North Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Iberia. And they’re all Jewish. Sephardic Jews, at just 10% of the American Jewish population, are a minority within a ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

Did you know that Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States, who make up 10 percent of the American Jewish population, have higher rates of Jewish communal participation? They also have a ...

Portugal plans to grant citizenship to great-grandchildren of Portuguese citizens born abroad. Current law only allows citizenship up to grandchildren of Portuguese citizens. The special citizenship ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.

The Festival Sefarad brings Sephardic food, film, lectures and more to venues across the city in June. New York’s Festival Sefarad — which is inspired by the Festival Séfarad de Montréal, which ...