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Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and that's raising alarms among some in the New York's Jewish ...
In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, not far from where I live. The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the ...
The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...
As Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht, prominent shliach and CEO of NCFJE, continues to recover from a health incident, family, friends, ...
In case of abuse, Report this post. The Stolac Jewish Cemetery is among the oldest and most significant Sephardic burial sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. —New York Jewish Travel Guide ...
“New York City is home to one of the most diverse and dynamic Jewish communities in the world,” the American Sephardi Federation, one of the lead organizers of the festival, said in a statement.
‘Jews in grave danger in all Moslem World’ - a famous New York Times headline from May 16, 1948, based on a speech delivered by President of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Stephen Wise ...
While David was not Sephardic himself, the Sephardic Jewish community in New York advertised his book’s “sensational” claims in La Vara, a newspaper written in Ladino, the main Sephardic ...
David Behar, founder of the Miami Sephardic Club who attended the Chabad event, said: “This is my third year in a row doing this event, one of my personal favorites in New York.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 18:23 Howard Teich speaks at a monument in The Battery that marks the Jewish arrival in New York in September 1654. New York, NY, Sept. 13, 2023. (photo credit: JULIA GERGELY/JTA) ...
Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, a group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived on the shores of New York — then called New Amsterdam — and created the first organized Jewish community in ...
The first organized Jewish migration to North America, which arrived in the New Amsterdam colony founded by the Dutch West India Company in September 1654, was a group of twenty-three Sephardi ...