admin | April 18, 2020
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, has long studied modern Jewish history from a global perspective. In his new biography of Theodor Herzl, Penslar examined how the founder of modern Zionisms personal life influenced his political impact
admin | April 18, 2020
(April 16, 2020 / Jewish Journal) On Thursday night, as sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna.
admin | April 18, 2020
Chess on steroids These days I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about Sinan Reis. If you have no idea who that is, that is not surprising
admin | April 17, 2020
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. Read More on This Topic Judaism: Sephardic developments In Muslim Spain, Jews frequently served the government in official capacities and, therefore, not only took an active interest in political 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.
admin | April 17, 2020
The latest chapter in the story of an extraordinary Passover book WHY, JEWISH children asked at the Passover meal last week, is this night different from all others? The question is stipulated in the Haggadah, a ritual book that recounts the Israelites escape from bondage in Egypt
admin | April 17, 2020
Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, one of the longest-serving Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the worlda devoted Chassid, teacher and congregational leader who along with his wife, Gittel, rarely left the North African nation of Morocco since being dispatched there in 1958passed away in a hospital in Casablanca on April 10, the second day of Passover, after contracting COVID-19. He was 84 years old.
admin | April 6, 2020
The Chief Rabbinate on Tuesday issued guidelines for Passover in the age of coronavirus, saying it was not permitted to hold the traditional Seder by videoconference and dismissing a previous ruling by several rabbis who said it was allowed.
admin | April 6, 2020
This Chicken and Celery Saut in Sephardic Sweet and Sour Sauce reflects several seder traditions. Some Sephardic communities dip celery leaves, not parsley, into salt water.
admin | April 6, 2020
(JTA) Hours before he was rushed to hospital in Milan because of the coronavirus, Efry Levy Azizoff was chatting on the phone with his friend Amichai Lazarov. Azizoff was already feeling unwell, yet he didnt even mention it, Lazarov recalled
admin | April 6, 2020
By Lieba Nesis As Passover arrives, the formerly joyous holiday has lugubrious undertones as all global programs have been canceled. Over the years Passover travel has skyrocketed with over 170 tours offering kosher food and entertainment for hefty prices. It is not uncommon for a large family to spend a quarter of a million dollars for the holiday.
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