Tag: Sephardic Jews
European Jewish Congress Calls for France to Root out ‘Societal Anti-Semitism’
“We appreciate the important words of the French Government... However, it doesn’t appear that much has changed on the ground for French Jews, who are still regularly attacked."
Knesset Committee to Declassify Evidence Related to Alleged Yemenite Child Abductions
The history of the stolen children of Yemenite immigrants to Israel haunts their descendants to this day.
Spain OK’s Jewish Return Bill
Spain’s Jewish community congratulated the government for approving a bill proposing to facilitate the naturalization of Sephardic Jews of Spanish descent.
On Friday, Spain’s government...
LA Jews Convince Firm to Remove Sexually Suggestive Billboard
Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles have convinced a company to take down a billboard that showed a mostly naked woman promoting an energy drink,...
Rav Ovadia: I Love Knitted-Yarmulke Jews – But Not their MKs
Rav Ovadia Yosef, the same rabbi who last month call national religious Rabbi Stav “evil,” now says he really loves knitted kippa Jews. Well, most of them. Their political leaders still are Amalek. Happy Tu B'Av.
Anti-Zionism, Sephardic Style
There is a widespread perception in Israel that Sephardic Jews are more sensible than the rest of us. Sephardim, or "Oriental Jews" as they are commonly if mistakenly called (strictly speaking, the two terms are not interchangeable), tend to shy away from the various manifestations of non-moderation that afflict Ashkenazi or "Western" Jews.