admin | May 17, 2017
A former chief rabbi of Israel was convicted of fraud on Monday for his part in a bonus-scam that allegedly swindled hundreds of millions of shekels from the government in civil servants wages. The Jerusalem District Court found Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron guilty of fraud offenses including fraud in aggravated circumstances, falsifying documents, and breach of trust.
richards | May 15, 2017
MK Shuli Mualem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) retracted her signature from a bill proposing to change a significant portion of Israel's street names to be named after women, Arabs, LGBTs, and Sephardic Jews.
richards | March 11, 2017
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trumps America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University) (JTA) One-year-old Vidal doesnt know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but notthat the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach himwhat served asthe lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years
richards | March 10, 2017
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trumps America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University) (JTA) One-year-old Vidal doesnt know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but notthat the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach himwhat served asthe lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years.
richards | March 9, 2017
New York The American Sephardi Federations (ASF) 20th Anniversary Edition of the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival will celebrate Moroccos culture of co-existence between Muslims and Jews on Opening Night, Thursday, March 30th. Andr Azoulay, Counsellor to Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, is to receive ASFs Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his remarkable lifes work bridging religious divides through artistic and other cultural endeavors
richards | March 7, 2017
This is a very charming and quite a "feel good" film. It is about many things: a close-knit, earthy, easy-going, but pious Sephardic community in Jerusalem; delicious Sephardic foods that look so tasty the viewer wants to reach over and take something
richards | March 6, 2017
Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak up Monday about a recent wave of anti-Semitism and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries in the United States. Yosef called on Netanyahu and Israeli diplomats not to be silent about the phenomenon of Jewish cemetery desecration. We have to raise a very clear voice to work as much as possible to stop these anti-Semitic acts, he said.
richards | March 4, 2017
EGYPTIAN WORKERS carry out restoration work at a synagogue in Cairo.. (photo credit:REUTERS) For many centuries Sephardi thinking, culture and law dominated the Jewish world
richards | March 3, 2017
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richards | March 2, 2017
By Julia Cabrera New York The American Sephardi Federation (ASF) open its doors on March 30 for the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. The week long event features the rich history of the Sephardic Jewish Community across the globe through film, with specific nights dedicated to the Moroccan, Iraqi, Greek, and Yemenite Jewish communities. The festival will shed light on the stories of Sephardic Jews from Baghdad to Greece, Ethiopia to Switzerland, and Israel to Iran.
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