The subject matter of “Exile” — the journey of Sephardic Jews — is at times tragic or ... The piece poignantly expresses a 10-year-old boy’s pain at being uprooted from a place he ...

The very first Jewish book was a multigenerational Jewish family saga. But while the Bible went on to achieve some commercial and critical success, the genre doesn’t always get much love.

Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce.

For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to ...

SF synagogue highlights Sephardic Jewish traditions bringing a place of belonging: Here's a look "They're looking for something real. They're looking to connect." By Tim Johns, Ido Bartana.

Ezra is a Sephardic storyteller who becomes Sabato’s voice to the Ashkenazi world, including to Agnon: “There was once a great writer in Jerusalem. All Jerusalem took pride in him, both during ...

Three-year-old Jason Spiegelman’s beautiful hair was 14 inches long when his mother took shears in hand and cut off his ponytail. “It was a long, three-year wait, but worth it,” says mom ...

The rabbi, Cantor Jen Benray, and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg served as his Beit Din (Hebrew for “house of judgment”) ...

Other recent Jewish deaths include former Oct. 7 hostage Hanna Katzir and Isak ... One of the last ‘Ritchie Boys’ dies at 101 Share ... Born in Istanbul to a Sephardic Jewish family, ...

Seattle has the third largest Sephardic Jewish population in the U.S. A recent symposium at the University of Washington, “Muestros Artistas," featured six Sephardic artists — a mix of ...

While the tradition is often used by Ashkenazi Jews, it stems from the Sephardic custom begun about 200 years ago, when Tiberias was the largest settlement in Israel.

They were the first Sephardic Jews who arrived in Seattle in 1902. A few years later, Behar’s father, David Israel, ... Here was the boys-only, Orthodox Talmud Torah school, ...