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Miami-Dade is a community of refugees and immigrants. More than 1 million have made their way by boat or arrived by plane. In Sweetwater, Hialeah, Sunny Isles, Miami and Miami Beach, one of every two ...

For centuries Jews co-existed for the most part peacefully with their various neighbors across North Africa and the Middle East. Jewish communities thrived from the Atlantic Ocean to the Tigris and ...

Kudos to Shira Eliassian for introducing the topic of religious feminism in the Sephardic community – a topic seriously under addressed. (Like Shira, I use the word Sephardic to refer to a religious ...

Marking the beginning of the new school year, Shas chairman Aryeh Deri declares that the best way to respond to anti-Sephardi discrimination in education is to open more and more sectoral schools.

Researchers have discovered the first mutations responsible for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer among “pure” Sephardi Jews, leading to calls for a more comprehensive genetic test for high-risk ...

A prominent Haredi girls’ seminary in Jerusalem will reportedly operate a separate institution for Sephardi students, which will have a distinct entrance from that of their Ashkenazi peers. Beit ...

Ten days into the school year, 55 Haredi students — 15 in Jerusalem and 40 in Beit Shemesh — remain without a school placement, as the Education Ministry moves to sanction institutions that continue ...

Theirs are stories I’m beginning to explore in-depth and it’s become clear that themes implicit in my ancestral history have ...

Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef states at an event celebrating the traditional three-week summer break in yeshivas that Haredi youth who do not study Torah yet need to start doing so rather than be ...

About every six months, JOFA’s staff sits down to brainstorm our programmatic goals for the upcoming weeks, months, and year. It’s an opportunity to take stock of where we are, look at what we’ve ...

In the United States, pumpkin pie is almost mandatory at Thanksgiving, while pumpkin makes occasional appearances in sweet breads and sometimes a creamy soup during the fall and winter — all the way ...