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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sephardic Academy of Manhattan, with 240 students this year, is the latest sign of a community’s growing presence in the neighborhood. When the Stanley I. Chera Sephardic Academy of Manhattan ...