Shlissel challah is a special loaf baked the first sabbath after Passover. We trace the modern route by which the bread has ...

His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...

While I taste the butter-filled date and honey-drizzled mofleta, I will pray that this beautiful Land of Israel, and all of ...

Our recent Pesach Seder, hosted by Rabbi Dr. Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota’s esteemed family in Santiago—the Dominican Republic’s ...

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...

No porridge. No whiskey. Passover is also where the Jewish world diverges; as an Iraqi Jew, I follow the Sephardi traditions developed by rabbis in medieval Spain and Portugal. Which means ...

One of the most well-known and beloved Jewish holidays, Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach), is coming up soon on the 15th day of the month of Nissan, corresponding this year to Saturday night ...

Elana Benjamin is a Jewish Australian writer of Indian-Iraqi heritage. She's also a co-founder of Sephardi Mizrahi Voices Australia, an organisation seeking to raise awareness of the traditions ...

When we talk about Sephardic Jews in diaspora, we tend to focus on the cuisines that formed as the Jews of Spain and Portugal fled to other countries, from Turkey and Italy to Morocco, Mexico, and ...