Rabbi Chaim Jachter is a prominent rabbi who serves as the rabbi at Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation ... from contemporary Halacha, Tanach, Aggada, and Jewish Thought all ...

The ISA has directed the Ministry of Religious Services to elevate security measures around the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef due to threats from terrorist groups. The Chief ...

(JTA) — At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants ...

This week I wrote a prayer, a special version of the “Al Hanisim” for Hanukkah 2024. I will recite this prayer every night. I will light the traditional Hanukkah candles, and I will add a ...

On Hanukkah 1932, just prior to the elections that would bring Hitler to power, Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, took this photo of the family’s Hanukkah menorah from the window ...

Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef said that as part of a deal to free the hostages from Hamas captivity, Israel should release terrorists who murdered Jews. "My father (the late Chief ...

Whatever the precise history of their origins, a pivotal point for the Jews of Ethiopia was in 1976 when the Chief Sephardic Rabbi ruled that the community in Ethiopia was fully Jewish and ...

“If you want to, tell me about [your dreams]” (Gen. 40:8). Of no other figure in Tanach is this said so clearly, consistently, and repeatedly. Joseph seems decisive, organized, and ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...