And a surname without Sephardic roots does not necessarily imply that the family cannot have Sephardic ancestors; before the end of the 18th century, individual Sephardic Jews joining Ashkenazic ...

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 ...

(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.

LAWRENCE - Sephardic Jews in America are a minority of a minority, as they are vastly outnumbered by Jews of Eastern European, German, Russian and Polish descent known as Ashkenazi Jews.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...