For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.

The sun shone brightly on a late spring morning as Mitchell Weitzman took two pieces of bread and a pair of tortillas from a ...

The term “Sephardic” literally means “Spanish” in Hebrew, but the label has come also to apply to one of the two main variants of Jewish religious practice. The other — and globally dominant one — ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.

Internationally acclaimed, Fortuna was honored in 2025 with the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Preservation of Sephardic Culture, recognizing her outstanding contribution to safeguarding ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a yearly celebration that recognizes the contributions and achievements of Jews in the United States. With the Jewish community facing a ...

After 522 years, Spain is inviting the Jews back — for real this time. Spain’s government announced in November 2012 a new law to give fast-track citizenship to Sephardic Jews. The Forward published ...

With cuisine from different parts of the globe, Borekas Sephardic Pastries and Baja Sub serve lots of deliciousness, says ...

The government of Portugal published its procedure for handling applications for citizenship based on the country’s law of return for descendants of Sephardic Jews. The new procedure, effective as of ...

A teenager in miniskirts when the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Jacqueline Saper remembers the chaos and the overwhelming surge of anti-Semitism. “Jews felt threatened. Anyone who could were ...