For her efforts in helping Jews regain their Spanish citizenship, Doreen Alhadeff was honored—in Queen Isabella’s name

Esther Levy Chehebar explains Sephardic traditions around names in her new children’s book

After 40 years in Israel, Nesim Bencoya returned to his once-cosmopolitan hometown in Turkey to save its hidden synagogues

Eliyah Hawila fooled everyone, including his would-be bride and Brooklyn’s tightknit Syrian Jewish community, into believing he was a Jew. Now that the secret is out, the question is: Who is he, really?

The Sephardic Heritage Museum stitches together a community separated by land, sea, and thousands of years

Young Jews are organizing in an effort to preserve Sephardic culture in America

The prolific author wrote stories with a satirist’s keen eye, but remains relatively unknown today

The recently demolished Seattle Curtain factory held a century’s history for the city’s Sephardic community—and for the family that founded the business after immigrating from Rhodes

In memory of my ‘Tio José,’ a fiercely independent thinker who wrote passionately about Sephardic Judaism, rabbinic semiotics, and Jewish law—who became enmeshed in communal controversy for his ideas

An Instagram chat among friends turned into ‘Live With Lee,’ a hit show about relationships in the Sephardic community

On the death of Rachel Muyal, doyenne of Moroccan Jewry

How the Inquisition’s conversos defined Jewish religious and ethnic identity in ways that are still prevalent today

Weeks after security forces kicked me out of Venezuela, I was at the Colombian border praying with a rabbi I’d never met before and preparing for the dangerous journey back into the country

“Studying some of the classic Sephardic books has opened us up to a range of different approaches and pedagogic models”

An overlooked golden age of Jewish culture flowered in the cities of Istanbul, Edirne, Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, and Alexandria—where almost no Jews live today