Rabbi David Benchlouch is a special contributor to MyNorthwest. He is the head rabbi of Congregation Ezra BessAroth, a Sephardic synagogue in Seward Park, Seattle, founded by immigrants from the ...

Though more Hamans would continue to arise, the Jewish people would survive and celebrate countless Purims in a new Promised ...

federal police raided the Kadoorie synagogue and arrested Rabbi Daniel Litvak on suspicion of influence peddling, document forgery and money laundering in the process of awarding Sephardic ...

For 89-year-old Maia Wajsfeld, who became one of the ... by their ancestral places of origin and their religious customs: Ashkenazi and Sephardic; Jews from Aleppo and Jews from Damascus; Orthodox ...

I really like writing books where historical human dramas are the center of attention, and that is something I continue to ...

Located in Ostia Antica, the mikvah dates to the late fourth or early fifth century C.E. Researchers say it's the earliest ...

Rabbi Shalom Dayan, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Dimona, passed away on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) at the age of 82. Rabbi Dayan, a beloved and admired figure in Dimona as well as in other ...

A fake plan to attack on a Sydney synagogue using a caravan of explosives was fabricated by an organized crime network in order to divert police resources, Australian police said on Monday.

The Jewish community in Tyumen, Siberia, dedicated a new synagogue in a ceremony attended ... leadership of Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelick. "The old space became too small to hold the community ...

For Rosen and his congregation, being anti-Zionist means practicing a Judaism that is committed to a universalist vision of ...