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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 ...
Netanyahu and other coalition leaders eulogize Meir Mazuz, who blamed COVID-19 and Meron disaster on homosexuality, denounced ...
Against the backdrop of today’s ongoing conflicts and refugee crises in the Middle East, the book offers a deeply relevant ...
A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...
the rabbi said with a knowing smile for some of the Christians in the audience. “This nice Jewish boy? The carpenter?” Following the ritual meal, guests feasted on a more substantial meal of ...
When we talk about Sephardic Jews in diaspora, we tend to focus on the cuisines that formed as the Jews of Spain and Portugal fled to other countries, from Turkey and Italy to Morocco, Mexico, and ...
The history of fish and chips dates back to around 1860 in East London, when Joseph Malin, a Sephardic Jewish immigrant from Belgium, popularized the dish. Its influence spread through the mid ...
Piñer points out that when Sephardic Jews left Spain for the Americas after the 1492 expulsion, they started using ingredients such as corn and chocolate, which didn’t yet exist in Europe.
At the time of the Declaration of Independence (1776), there were already 1,500 to 2,500 Jews in the British colonies that would become the United States, mostly descendants of Sephardic immigrants ...
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy holds parts of a hob that will be dipped in boiling water to remove traces of chametz (leavening agents) as Jews prepare for the holiday of Pesach (Passover ...
Features and documentaries from Daniel Robbins, Jasmila Žbanić, Dani Rosenberg and Nir Bergman are among the highlights at Germany's largest Jewish film festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...
Gamboa, 47, has said that he is the son of “secular Sephardic Jews” in Tolima, Colombia, El Pais reported. The post Colombian Jews, Christians slam appointment of anti-Israel ‘rabbi’ to ...