admin | July 17, 2020
A wild crisis has been thrust upon the Rabbanut the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the Rabbanut is fighting back. ITIM Jewish Advocacy Center, along with the Rackman Center for the Advancement of Womens Status and the Kolech Center for Womens Leadership recently filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of women who seek to take Rabbanut semicha exams.
admin | July 9, 2020
Your very own Atlanta Jewish Times was voted second-best weekly Jewish newspaper in the U.S. last week, receiving nine of the top prizes for Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association.
admin | July 5, 2020
An Open Letter to the members of the Portuguese National Assembly I am a Sephardic Jew. Portugal owes me nothing. Yet the Nationality Law as irrational as it is offers a chance of survival for Portuguese-Jewish culture which is on the verge of extinction
admin | July 5, 2020
(RNS) Let us say their names out loud. Who? Althea Bernstein is a biracial Jewish woman in Madison, Wisconsin.
admin | July 5, 2020
(JTA) As a child in Israel, Amir Nathan dined at Sami VeSusu, an innovative restaurant in Beersheba named after a popular childrens television show from the 1960s and 70s.
admin | July 5, 2020
Yair Lapid: Israels choice, between shame and pride Israel today feels like a pressure cooker with no release valve on top. There are so many points of tension: the secular and the religious; Israelis and Palestinians; settlers and those who oppose the occupation; Sephardic Jews from the Arab world and Ashkenazi Jews from Europe; and Israeli Arabs and Zioniststhe list is endless. Yet in over 50 years of mayhem I have never seriously questioned my decision to live here
admin | July 5, 2020
This Saturday, American Jews will light candles for havdalah and of fireworks for the Fourth of July. Most American Jews trace their roots to immigration booms in the late 19th or early 20th century.
admin | June 26, 2020
Heeding a pressing need of families with young children for baby essentials since the coronavirus outbreak, of New Yorks Young Sephardic Women committee organized a donation drive that brought in nearly 120,000 diapers and other baby products, valued at nearly $40,000.
admin | June 26, 2020
(JTA) Rick Landman still remembers how nervous he felt.
admin | June 26, 2020
Week of June 28, 2020 By Laurie Baron, Ph.D (All times Pacific time) Sunday, June 2811 a.m. Aviva Ben-Ur, Suriname: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society, Sephardic World 12 p.m.
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