Talia read the first four aliyot in Ashkenazi trope, from a standard Ashkenazi Torah scroll. For the fifth Aliyah, which ...

In 2005, Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi at the time, declared the Bnei Menashe the descendants of Manasseh, paving ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 93. TEL AVIV (JTA ...

About 50 percent of Cohanim in both Sephardic and Ashkenazic populations have an unusual set of genetic markers on their Y chromosome. What is equally striking is that this genetic signature of ...

Izmir, a hub of Sephardic history, is drawing tourists with a synagogue restoration project. IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist ...