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 ...

The 73-year-old Henriques ... Henriques assures me that while many in the synagogue can trace their roots to a small group of early Sephardic families, not everyone is related.) ...

In a contract he solemnly handed to his parents in 1949, the thirteen year-old future writer claimed the right to ... a grandfather was the chief justice of the city’s Sephardic religious court.

This is a figure who was part of our community, and her work enriched the lives of so many synagogues and so many people who ...

However, new research on a magnificent synagogue in the Galilee has revealed that this notion might need reconsidering. A team of international scholars has successfully conducted radiocarbon ...

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

Rabbi Steven Gotlib of Mekor Habracha in Center City grew up in what he called an “old school, traditional Conservative” ...

A safe haven. That’s what Or Hadash, the oldest Reconstructionist synagogue in the area dating back to 1983, offers its ...

Though there's not been much news directly about the game recently, work on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) remake is presumed to be ongoing. That said, since we've not seen any ...

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Less than 15 miles from Rome, Ostia Antica was once a bustling cosmopolitan seaport at the mouth of the Tiber River, where ...