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His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for ...
A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...
Rabbi Meir Mazuz, one of the most prominent Torah leaders in the holy land of Israel who led Tunisian Jewry, built many institutions, learned Chassidus and admired the Rebbe and was supportive of ...
Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a prominent ultra-Orthodox Sephardic religious leader known ... one of the leaders of the Tunisian Jewish community, was assassinated. That same year, he and his brothers founded ...
An Indian-Jewish soldier who belonged to one of the ... The said: “He was a good boy. Loved his family and friends in the army. Loved animals. He wanted to be a warrior.
was the son of Ashkenazi Jews who had fled Lithuania in the nineteen-twenties. Her mother, Annie Pardo Cemo, a biologist and academic, was born into a Sephardic family that left Bulgaria at the ...
During the war, their politics tended to the left of centre, and many had a personal investment in Soviet victory against Nazism: about a third were Jewish Americans ... working-class, Sephardic ...
Mercada Ermoza is the grand matriarch of an old Sephardic family ... firstborn child, a boy, dies soon after his birth; of the three daughters that she gives birth to, the youngest one is the result ...