It was beautiful, spiritually uplifting and inspirational. Everyone present – family, close friends, community – was moved to tears. The emotions in the room were a magical blend of pride, joy and ...

Dozens of Sephardic Jews gathered Sunday to welcome to the United States an ancient scroll from the home of their ancestors, the Sefer Torah of the Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. The ...

BOSTON (JTA) — In 1725, Abraham de Oliveyra was officially registered as a silversmith in London — the first Jew known to be given a license to practice the trade in the city. Jews had been let back ...

Growing up, I considered Sephardic rituals and customs to be exotic, maybe even odd, if I thought about them at all. I knew, for example, that eating rice on Passover was allowed in Sephardic homes, a ...

Only 11 pairs of finials by Abraham de Oliveyra are known. The Jewish Museum in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston jointly bought one of them. BOSTON (JTA) — In 1725, Abraham Lopes de ...

This almost didn’t happen. It had so much going against it – the ongoing war in Gaza, rockets from Yemen, and the recent missile war with Iran. The planned Maccabiah Games – cancelled. Many teen and ...

A Torah reading was prevented on Thursday at the Ashkenazi synagogue “Bnei HaYeshivot” in Kiryat Yearim solely because the cantor prayed with a Sephardic accent, reports Kikar Hashabbat. According to ...

Approaching Shavuot, the time of matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, I have heard the song of the new Torah reader in a storefront minyan, and the song of the Jew by choice; the singing of Torah in ...

The pair of ornaments are known as finials, or “rimonim” in Hebrew, and sit on top of the two wooden staves of a Torah scroll when it is not being read. In 1725, Abraham de Oliveyra was officially ...

(JTA) In 1725, Abraham Lopes de Oliveyra was officially registered as a silversmith in London — the first Jew known to be given a license to practice the trade in the city. Jews had been let back into ...