Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language ...

LISBON - The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews, which include validation of the connection to Portugal by an ...

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Justice Ministry says ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a yearly celebration that recognizes the contributions and achievements of Jews in the United States. With the Jewish community facing a ...

Join us for The White Islands/Las islas blancas: A Sephardic Sojourn—an unforgettable evening where history, poetry, and music come together to bring the Sephardic Jewish experience to life. This ...

The musician will bring audience members on "A Sephardic Musical Journey" Monday when she takes the stage for the Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series, offered through the University of Arizona ...

The term “Sephardic” literally means “Spanish” in Hebrew, but the label has come also to apply to one of the two main variants of Jewish religious practice. The other — and globally dominant one — ...

Joseph Pool, a senior at Rollins College in Florida, grew up hearing his Moroccan-born grandparents describe Mimouna, a traditional Moroccan Jewish celebration marking the return to eating chametz ...