For a good part of their history, Jews were a stateless people, repeatedly finding themselves fleeing or expelled from countries even long after they had put down roots. Now, some of those nations are ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.

Yiddish, which combined Hebrew with primarily Medieval German, was only spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When they were busy “noshing” (eating) and “kvetching” (complaining). Sephardic Jews had a variety of ...

Establishment of a World Federation of Sephardic Communities climaxed the five-day first world congress of Sephardic Jews which concluded here this week-end. Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister of Israel, ...

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 ...

Did you know that Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States, who make up 10 percent of the American Jewish population, have higher rates of Jewish communal participation? They also have a ...

After graduating from college decades ago, I took my meager savings and went off to Paris. I wandered all over the city and happened upon a Jewish district with a lot of ethnic restaurants. I looked ...

(The Conversation) — “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway play that brought Jewish life to stages around the world. The 1964 musical gives audiences a window ...

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project called Jews of Color: Histories and Futures. “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway ...