Tag: Sephardic Jews
Considerable Shared DNA Between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Populations
Many Eastern Europeans refer to their families as part Sephardic. Alexander Beider dismisses their claim in a Forward article without any citation or input from historians or geneticists. It’s also a bit insulting to...
![Phil Roeder [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Womens_March_Iowa_City_02-324x235.jpg "Why I refused to march")
Why I refused to march
Like so many other Jewish women, I grappled over and over again with the decision to attend the Women’s March on Jan. 19. I missed the first march because I was recovering from childbirth,...
Educational outlets launch project to amass testimonies of Jews from the Mizrach
The San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) has announced a new partnership program with Israel’s Ministry of Social Equality (MSE), Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of...
Brooklyn author traces the history of Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community
The Syrian community in Brooklyn has a 100-year history, and author Sarina Roffe has captured it and more in her book “Branching Out From Sepharad”. Her ambitious and deeply researched book traces two rabbinic...
Philadelphia’s secret Hispanic History
Descendants of those Sephardic Jews still live here today. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset on September 20. Philadelphians of Hispanic heritage will find the language and food of the Sephardic...
Biblioteca Ets Haim
In the late 1500s and early 1600s, as Sephardic Jews were establishing a community in Amsterdam, they founded a school for themselves that would become the oldest continuously operating Jewish library in the world.Top...