Behind the ever-abiding divisions between Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews is the widely-held belief that Ashkenazim, as leaders of the Haskalah, or Enlightenment movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, ...

If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What ...

Maimonides, one of the most famous Sephardic Jews, as portrayed on an Israeli banknote Like most Jews with ties to South Africa, my heritage is extremely Ashkenazi. In fact, both sides of my family ...

But pride has always been haunted by fear that public acknowledge of Jewish achievement could fuel the perception of "Jewish domination" of institutions. And any characterization of Jews in biological ...

This story begins, as it inevitably must, in the Old Country. At some point during the tenth century, a group of Jews abandoned the lush hills of Lucca, Italy, and—at the invitation of ...

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Chagit Schreiber of Petah Tikva is the mother of six and the grandmother of 21. She used to run a nursery in her home, taking care of even more children, until she started to bump into things and ...

Why do Ashkenazi Selichot always start on a Saturday night? So therefore, as we now enter into our period of the High Holy days we pray that the Almighty will indeed bless us with Selichot, that we ...

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A new study has found a huge and abiding income gap between Jewish Israelis of Ashkenazi, or European, origins and Mizrahim, or Jews hailing from the Muslim world. According to the latest Adva Center ...