An important but largely concealed CIA report, titled “Israel: The Sephardi-Ashkenazi Confrontation and Its Implications,” is almost prophetic in its ability to detail future scenarios for a ...

A retreat for 400 bereaved parents held by the OneFamily organization provided tools and strength for those who mourn every ...

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 ...

Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and ...

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The Jewish community in Australia is mostly comprised of Ashkenazi Jews. But Benjamin's Indian and Iraqi background means that she is part of two distinct Jewish diasporas — Sephardi (with roots ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

Despite its size and importance, Latin American Jewry has been relatively under-examined. Estimated to number over 750,000 individuals, the Latin American Jewish community is diverse and includes ...

In an impressive ceremony at Heichal Shlomo, headquarters of the Chief Rabbinate here, Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman was installed today as the new Ashkenazi ... by the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak ...