(JTA) — At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants ...

Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his ...

When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, many Jewish patriots came to Philadelphia from New York, which had been captured by the British forces. The most famous Jew to relocate from New York to ...

Before 1947, Syria was home to around 30,000 Jews, divided into three distinct communities, each with its unique traditions: the Kurdish-speaking Jews of Qamishli, the Sephardic Jews of Aleppo with ...

Indeed, for Turkey’s Jews, both at home and abroad, he is remembered as a fatherly figure who had a zest for life and Sephardic Judaism. “I lost not only our chief rabbi, but also my spiritual ...

More than 500 years after their ancestors were expelled from Spain, 160 Sephardic Jews in Colombia have recovered their Spanish citizenship. The paths that led their families to Colombia are diverse ...

A Greek classic that’s actually not all Greek, this soup’s a great one for when it’s cold outside — or when you have caught ...

Once part of thriving communities in several Greek cities, approximately 59,000 Greek Jews were victims of the Holocaust — at least 83 percent of the total number living in Greece at the time of World ...