richards | April 29, 2014
The Center for Active Design has named winners of its inaugural Excellence awards, which recognize the role of design in encouraging physical activity to combat obesity and chronic disease.
richards | April 23, 2014
Photo via shutterstock.com Tammy Rubin wasnt thrilled at the prospect of getting blood drawn by a phlebotomist. At least there was apple juice and the prospect of life-changing knowledge afterward. The UCLA junior was sitting at a table outside of the campus Kerckhoff Hall on April 9, where the Los Angeles Jewish Genetic Disease Prevention Project and Progenity lab offered genetic screenings for both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
richards | April 21, 2014
LA Sephardic Music Festival Recap/Teaser http://sephardicfest.com *** After nine years in New York, the Sephardic Music Festival (SMF) took place in Los Angeles, California between March 2 -- 11, 20... By: Bancs Media
richards | April 14, 2014
This will be the new home of the Sephardic Genealogy website.
richards | April 14, 2014
The cuisine of the Sephardi Jews is an assortment of cooking traditions that developed among the Jews of Spain, Portugal, the Mediterranean (Turkey, Greece, Maghreb) and Arab countries.[1] Mizrahi, who are sometimes called Sephardic Jews, are Jews of origins from countries of the Middle-East, respectively. While there is some overlap in populations due to the Sephardic Diaspora, Sephardic Jews settled in many other countries as well, and this article deals only with the populations originating in the Iberian Peninsula. Jews in the Diaspora, both Ashkenazim and Sephardim, cooked foods that were popular in their countries of residence, adapting them to the requirements of kashrut.
richards | April 10, 2014
Hopes High for Legacy and Lucrative Tourism Trade getty images Published April 10, 2014. Medelim, Portugal (JTA) In the center of the medieval Portuguese town of Medelim, two newlyweds in Sephardic wedding clothes are serenaded by a musical ensemble performing Ladino music
richards | April 9, 2014
John Hagee speaks of the four blood moons and sephardic jews By: Gerson Levi
richards | April 9, 2014
(JNS.org) A prominent Sephardic rabbi has urged leaders from the UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York to bar Jewish groups that support BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) from marching in the June 1 Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City. Ahead of an April 8 protest rally outside of the UJA-Federation building regarding the participation of groups including Partners for Progressive Israel, the New Israel Fund (NIF), and BTselem in the JCRC-run and UJA Federation-supported parade, Rabbi Elie Abadie leader of New Yorks Edmond J.SafraSynagogue wrote in a letter to UJA-Federation and JCRC leaders that the groups disguise of being legitimate Pro-Israel Jewish Groups has been already discovered and revealed as false
richards | April 9, 2014
Only during Passover would unsalted rice cakes be considered a treat. This year, observant Sephardic Jews those from the Mediterranean rim, whose dietary laws during Passover are ever so slightly more permissive than those of Eastern European descent can eat products made from a category of food called kitniyot, which includes rice, legumes, corn, peas, soy and lentils. For the first time, rice cakes, peanut butter, popcorn and canned chickpeas are under American rabbinical supervision for Passover.
richards | April 6, 2014
Sephardic Community Center presents The Wiz By: Gabriel Solomon
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