Sinai Temple has initiated a new Shabbat program to share different traditions from around the Jewish world. As Rabbi Sherman explained in his sermon on Terumah, just as the curtains of the Mishkan ...

Within this framework, a Jew from Germany or Poland was not simply German or Polish; he was Jewish ethnically, racially, and religiously. By contrast, a Jew from Spain or Portugal, according to the ...

Though the place smelled different, its soundscape created a deep emotional connection, leading me to reflect on how sensory experiences help migrants — like Sephardim — feel at home in a new land ...

Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and ...

These are auspicious times. “Epic Fury,” the military operation by the U.S. and Israeli forces against Iran this week, was ...

The music competition is considered Eurovision for minority languages. Vazana is based in Amsterdam and was representing the ...

"Moving Forward" traces one Sephardic family's journey, exploring how fragile and shifting ideas of identity are reshaped by exile, memory and survival A new documentary exploring the traumatic ...

A tiny Caribbean island once had more Jews than all thirteen American colonies combined, and quietly saved thousands from the ...

The world’s first Jewish “ghetto”, established by the Venetian Senate on March 29 1516, was seen as a temporary solution to a long-term problem. Since the 13th century, the Christians of Venice – for ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Council of Jewish Organizations Staten Island will hold its 51st Annual Pre-Passover Food ...

Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent, challenged religious and political norms. His ideas on rationalism and pantheism influenced Enlightenment thinkers. Spinoza believed ...

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.