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Jewish community members at synagogue in Agadir City, Morocco. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

Moroccan Jews reflect on their heritage and tradition post-normalization with Israel

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Experts in global Jewish history believe that highlighting minority voices within the Jewish community has the power to honor its nuances and interconnectedness. JNS’s new series highlighting Jewish ethnic minorities aims to elevate their...

January 20, 1496: Decree of Expulsion Issued for Portuguese Jews

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Following the death of King Joao of Portugal in 1494, his son King Manuel I ascended the throne. When his legitimacy as heir to the throne was challenged, Manuel wished to marry Princess Isabel...
Jewish refugees at Ma’abarot transit camp, 1950. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Transforming trauma: How Jewish voices from Iran and Arab lands can be a bridge...

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With just the clothes on their backs and a few belongings hurriedly thrown into a sack, thousands of Jewish families were forced to flee from their homes after the declaration of the Jewish state...
Saul Berenthal (front left), 75, was born and raised in Cuba but left for Miami in 1960, following the 1959 Castro revolution. He is pictured here in Havana, cruising around in a classic 1950s American-made car. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Jewbans’ prosperous in America, while brethren in Cuba ‘hangs on the precipice’

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Experts in global Jewish history believe that highlighting minority voices within the Jewish community has the power to honor its nuances and interconnectedness. JNS’s new series highlighting Jewish ethnic minorities aims to elevate their...
Ruben Shimonov speaking at an event for the American Sephardi Federation in 2018. Credit: American Sephardi Federation via Facebook.

Ruben Shimonov is working to teach the ‘broader story of Mizrahim’

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Experts in global Jewish history believe that highlighting minority voices within the Jewish community has the power to honor its nuances and interconnectedness. JNS’s new series highlighting Jewish ethnic minorities aims to elevate their...
President of Murcia Fernando López Miras and president of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation David Hatchwell in the old synagogue of Lorca. Credit: The Hispanic Jewish Foundation.

Sephardi legacy to be newly emphasized in Murcia region of southern Spain

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The autonomous region of Murcia in southeast Spain recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Hispanic Jewish Foundation, aiming at showcasing the region’s longtime Sephardi legacy. David Hatchwell , president of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation,...

July 27, 1656: Baruch Spinoza Was Excommunicated

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Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been...
A promotional image for the series “Umm Haroun” (“The Mother of Aaron”), aired by the private Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Source: Arab Media.

Middle Eastern Jewry and the Arab world

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A drama series broadcast in the Gulf states during the month of Ramadan, “Umm Haroun“ (“Aaron’s Mother”), tells the story of a Jewish family in Kuwait during the 1940s under Arab-Muslim rule. On a small...
Reading from a Torah scroll in accordance with Sephardi tradition. Credit: Sagie Maoz via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish organization applauds Portuguese commemoration of Spanish Inquisition victims

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Jewish organization Reconectar applauded the recent passing of a law in the Portuguese Parliament that established March 31 as the official date to commemorate victims of the Inquisition. Ashley Perry (Perez), president of Reconectar, which...

Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness

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Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century  from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...