Jewish American Heritage Month

richards | September 4, 2015

Alternative titles: Sefardi; Sefardic Judaism; Sefardim; Sephardic Judaism; Sephardim Sephardi,also spelled Sefardi, plural Sephardim or Sefardim, from Hebrew Sefarad (Spain), member or descendant of the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal from at least the later centuries of the Roman Empire until their persecution and mass expulsion from those countries in the last decades of the 15th century. The Sephardim initially fled to North Africa and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, and many of these eventually settled in such countries as France, Holland, England, Italy, and the Balkans. Salonika (Thessalonki) in Macedonia and the city of Amsterdam became major sites of Sephardic settlement.

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richards | September 4, 2015

Welcome to the first step in the rest of your life, for the good, positive and beautiful! Are you tired of pretending not to see the same faces at young professional events? Sephardic Connection is a private Sephardic Jewish online dating site whose goal is to provide singles with a new way to meet and ultimately date their match. Sephardic Connection has been designed by Torah Ohr to bring the clarity, excitement and success of dating into full-gear! We know that G-d is the real matchmaker; nonetheless, we still need to exert our most honest efforts

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richards | September 1, 2015

In Colonial America, the Converso/Crypto Sephardic Jews, finally felt safely out of the reach of the terrifying clutches of the Inquisition. They were free to practice what vestiges they had left of their religion.

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richards | August 14, 2015

with Bibliography A JewishGen InfoFile Author: Bernard I. Kouchel Sephardim, Jews of the Iberian Peninsula, spoke a Judeo-Spanish dialect, written in Hebrew script, called Ladino. Many were forced to convert to Christianity between 1391 and 1497.

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richards | July 18, 2015

For most Americans, traditional Jewish culture summons up images of Passover seders with steaming bowls of matzah ball soup, black-hatted, pale-skinned Hasidic men, and Yiddish-speaking bubbes (grandmothers) and zeydes (grandfathers).

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richards | July 15, 2015

Sephardi Jews (Yahadut Sfarad) Total population Sephardi Jews 2,200,000 up to 16% of world Jewish population Regions with significant populations Israel 1.4 million France 300,000400,000 United States 200,000300,000 Argentina 50,000 Turkey 26,000 United Kingdom 8,000 Colombia 7,000 Morocco 6,000 Greece 6,000 Tunisia 2,000 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,000 Panama 8,000 Languages Historical: Ladino, Arabic, Haketia, Judeo-Portuguese, Berber, Catalanic, Shuadit, local languages Modern: Local languages, primarily Hebrew, French, English, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Ladino, Arabic. Religion Judaism Related ethnic groups Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Samaritans, other Levantines, other Near Eastern Semitic people, Spaniards, Portuguese and Hispanics/Latinos Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or simply Sephardim (Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew: Sfaraddi, Tiberian: Spradd, lit

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richards | June 22, 2015

Sephardic law and customs means the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim. Sephardim do not constitute a separate denomination within Judaism, but rather a distinct cultural, juridical and philosophical tradition.

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richards | June 22, 2015

Judaism is not a race Judaism is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry. For instance, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews are both "Jewish." However, whereas Ashkenazi Jews often hail from Europe, Sephardic Jews often hail from the Middle East. People of many different races have become Jewish over the centuries

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richards | May 25, 2015

Spanish and Portuguese Jews (also known as Western Sephardim, or more ambiguously as Spanish Jews, Portuguese Jews and Jews of the Portuguese Nation) are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardi Jews, mostly descended from families forcibly converted to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, who later became ex-conversos as they emigrated to other countries outside the Iberian cultural sphere where they eventually reverted to Judaism.

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richards | May 14, 2015

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, a jewish woman reads a book at the main Jewish synagogue in Lisbon. Portugal enacted in March a law to grant citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews exiled during the Inquisition 500 years ago

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