His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for Paris in 1946. On May 14, 1948 – the day of Israel’s declaration of ...

a vibrant celebration of Sephardic culture, history and traditions. Sephardic Judaism includes the traditions and religious practices of Jews from Spain and Portugal before they were expelled in ...

As Jews, we live in a bitter world, where Jewish college students are subjected to more hatred than learning. Four children? Two of them – Ariel and Kfir – were murdered in cold blood.

(JTA)– Over 130,000 Jews of Sephardic heritage applied for Spanish citizenship under a 2015 law giving the right to naturalization to descendants of Sephardic Jews. The application window for ...

Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her meticulously ...

DeMota’s family in Santiago—the Dominican Republic’s vibrant second-largest city—was an experience of profound cultural ...

on BBC One, I finally learned about Sephardim – and realised how much I identified with the culture. Sephardim is a Jewish ethnic ... back to an online Sephardic database of family names.

Author and HBI Research Associate Judy Bolton-Fasman is carrying out research for a continuing project on Jewish women in the Sephardic Diaspora. One of the primary objectives is to drill down and ...

Piñer points out that when Sephardic Jews left Spain for the Americas after the 1492 expulsion, they started using ingredients such as corn and chocolate, which didn’t yet exist in Europe.

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...