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Isak Haleva, Turkey’s chief rabbi and face of Jewish minority, dies at 84
Indeed, for Turkey’s Jews, both at home and abroad, he is remembered as a fatherly figure who had a zest for life and Sephardic Judaism. “I lost not only our chief rabbi, but also my spiritual ...
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Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | “God Was Not in the Fire”
When sitting in Spain and longing for Israel, Rabbi Judah Halevy famously wrote “Libi b’mizrach, va’anochi b’sof ma’arav” – “My heart is in the East, but I am at the edge of the ...
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Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | A Bimah of Victory
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.
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Women's Roles in the Sephardic Diaspora From the Golden Age of Spain to Mid-century Cuba
Author and HBI Research Associate Judy Bolton-Fasman is carrying out research for a continuing project on Jewish women in the Sephardic Diaspora. One of the primary objectives is to drill down and ...
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Isak Haleva, Turkey’s chief rabbi and face of Jewish minority, dies at 84
Isak Haleva, Turkey's chief rabbi since 2002 who bridged traditional Sephardic Judaism with modern Turkish life while leading his community through decades of political change, has died at 84.
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Isak Haleva, Turkey’s chief rabbi and face of its Jewish minority, dies at 84
Indeed, for Turkey’s Jews, both at home and abroad, he is remembered as a fatherly figure who had a zest for life and Sephardic Judaism. “I lost not only our chief rabbi but also my spiritual ...