Jewish Journal3 天
Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | A Bat Mitzvah of Sephardic Continuity
Talia read the first four aliyot in Ashkenazi trope, from a standard Ashkenazi Torah scroll. For the fifth Aliyah, which ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6 年
In northern Brazil, Sephardic converts are giving dwindling Jewish communities a new lease ...
Yet unlike many counterpart communities, Recife’s is not in decline — partly thanks to the embrace of Judaism by hundreds of locals whose Sephardic ancestors came here centuries ago from Spain ...
Mercer Island Reporter on MSN5 个月
Sephardic Day at the J celebrates rich cultural heritage and community
More than 700 people from the greater Seattle area gathered at the Stroum Jewish Community Center (SJCC) on Mercer Island on ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency3 年
Meet Angelina Muñiz Huberman, a Mexican writer whose novels explore Sephardic history and ...
Besides being a pioneer in Sephardic studies in Mexico and researching ... and have undergone formal conversions to Judaism. Beyond her Jewish side, Huberman also considers herself a ...
Jewish Press22 天
Chief Rabbis Demand Western Wall Stones Be Returned from Exhibits
The Rishon LeZion and Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Kalman Ber, and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel ...
The Scientist11 年
Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews
The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...