Can’t sleep? Instead of shuffling to the freezer, you could be getting a jump start on your prayers. That is, if you happen to live near a Sephardic community that still practices the tradition of ...

What happens when “an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Sephardic Chief Rabbi and a future Nobel Prize winning author walk into a café?” While such a dream meeting never took place, what we do know is that ...

It is commonly believed that halakhically-based women’s prayer groups originated in contemporary circles of the progressive wing of Modern Orthodoxy. Think again. In his book Nahalat Avot, Rabbi Yosef ...

During the Knesset vote in the first reading of the Draft Law tomorrow, Sephardic rabbis are expected to hold a prayer service on the grave of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef against the law. Ads published in ...

Rabbi Asher Murciano of the Sephardic Jewish Center of Forest Hills has devoted his life to the study of his religion, its traditions and the culture of Sephardic Jews. “I love to study. There is no ...

Kudos to Shira Eliassian for introducing the topic of religious feminism in the Sephardic community – a topic seriously under addressed. (Like Shira, I use the word Sephardic to refer to a religious ...

Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi (Rishon LeTzion), Rabbi Shlomo Amar has issued a plea to the public to fast and pray for rain as another winter season of paltry precipitation begins to fade away. In a ...

During a swearing-in ceremony of new rabbinical judges at the President’s Residence, President Isaac Herzog asks the rabbis to declare a national day of fasting and ...

Devin Naar wasn’t hired at the University of Washington to teach Sephardic studies. The young scholar, only in his late 20s at the time, actually came to the university in 2011 to teach modern Jewish ...