The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival will be screening films and holding events April 3-7 at the Moise Safra Center on 130 E. 82nd St. Get tickets here. Share this: Twitter; ...

Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and ...

Jews and New York politics have rarely seemed so much in the mix, with multiple mayoral candidates making antisemitism and Israel priority issues. Among the Orthodox, there’s also intense ...

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 ...

In 1923, New York’s Ladino weekly announced his marriage to Sarina Corkidi, from Izmir. ... The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.

(New York Jewish Week) — 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 ...

This is the founding text of New York Jewish history. Two takeaways from this journey into an almost 400-year-old sermon. First, it places the arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam into a larger ...

It’s about a wealthy Turkish Jewish family whose fortunes are reversed by the First World War and whose members are dispersed to Barcelona, Cuba and finally New York.

Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews celebrate Hanukkah differently With time, the Jewish population in Mexico grew. Around 1910, it’s estimated there were nearly 15,000 in the country from European ...

(New York Jewish Week) — 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 ...

New York makes for a particular choice target for Islamic fundamentalists – after all, they’ve already succeeded here in spectacular fashion. 6 Mayor Adams was seen lighting candles at the vigil.