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 ...
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 ...
Though the place smelled different, its soundscape created a deep emotional connection, leading me to reflect on how sensory experiences help migrants — like Sephardim — feel at home in a new land ...
Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New York and established the first Jewish community. Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, a group of 23 Sephardic ...
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 ...
Joseph Pool, a senior at Rollins College in Florida, grew up hearing his Moroccan-born grandparents describe Mimouna, a traditional Moroccan Jewish celebration marking the return to eating chametz ...
As we observe the 11 th anniversary of the passing of Rav Ovadia Yosef z”l (3 Heshvan), we do so in the midst of a deep void in rabbinic leadership in Israel. When I say “Rabbinic Leadership,” I don’t ...
Albuquerque’s Festival Sefardí returns for its 16th year, exploring the complex heritage of Sephardic Jews in the Southwest with a series of talks by prominent scholars, as well as music, dance, ...
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Why New York’s Sephardic Jews are more Zionist — and more wary of Mamdani — than their Ashkenazi neighbors
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