Republished with permission from the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Photograph of Rabbi Leon J. Pessah...

Correspondence clipping from Congregation Mikveh Israel discussing the plight of recently arrived Sephardic Jews to Philadelphia from the...

A historical document that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the management of Jewish property in Greece during the Nazi Occupation...

One of the unresolved questions in the study of the history of the Jews of Greece relates to the devastating impact of the Holocaust. How...

Newly catalogued archives of the Jewish Community of Izmir, Turkey On December 17, 2024, an invaluable treasure of Jewish heritage was...

Mazal Bueno of Regina Algranti Soriano, passed down to to her great granddaughter, Rachel Pearle Hasson It was one of those Sunday...

As I stirred together sugar, water, lemon, oil, and henna powder, the scent bloomed—fragrant herbal bouquets weaving through the banquet...

Like Lady Liberty and her torch, my mother holds aloft her own precious symbol, the jar of homemade Harosset, prepared well in advance of...

A Jewish couple in Salonika in 1942 or 1943 (US Holocaust Museum). Judith Baumel coined the term “double jeopardy” to explain the double...

Greek-Jewish boxers Salamo Arouch, above, and Jacko Razon, photo below, both of Thessaloniki, were forced to fight other prisoners in...

Family photo. First row from left to right: Nava, Avram Hatem, Emel, Roza Hatem. Second row from left to right: Doron, Eliza Presented in...

Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, learning with young students in Jerusalem A quick...

Yaakov Hagoel, the Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, is the first Sephardic Jew to head up the global Jewish organization With...

Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool z"L Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool was the pre-eminent Sephardic Rabbi in America during the mid-twentieth...

Sephardic and other non-Ashkenazi traditions should be better represented in Jewish Day Schools and high schools. Through forced diaspora...

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot  is the biography of Gad Franco, who was at first a journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, and a prominent...

Before I began writ­ing my new nov­el, Across So Many Seas , all I knew was that I want­ed to write a sto­ry about four Sephardic Jew­ish...

Bivas! Kreskas! Engradeskas! "May you live, grow up, and be brought up for good!" Many happy sneezes have been blessed with this Ladino...

I’m not ashamed to admit that I am a Sephardic muggle. Those who are Harry Potter fans will remember that a muggle is someone who did not...

Every Friday morning I eagerly open my email and look for the latest issue of La Boz Sefaradi / The Sephardic Voice, the Brotherhood’s...