Sephardic in a sentence

Later, during the Ottoman period, with the coming of Sephardic Jews from Spain, the community of Thessaloniki became mostly Sephardic.

His name is Rabbi Shalom Messas, and he was the distinguished, beloved and highly regarded Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

She charged that the paper was displaying “uninhibited antisemitism” by arguing that a “lack of manners” and “excesses” were specific characteristics of Sephardic Jews.

The Jews highlighted in the festival come from a variety of Jewish backgrounds, including Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Syrian, and the films span a variety of genres, including horror, comedy and drama.

The Romaniote Jews, neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardic, emerged from the first Jewish communities in Europe.

We always joke that when my husband Alan married me, he converted to Sephardic Judaism.

According to the analysis, Cristobal Colón was a Spanish, or Sephardic, Jew.

Called keftes de prasa in Ladino, an ancient Judaeo-Spanish language spoken by some Sephardic Jews, these resemble a classic potato latke, but are constructed slightly differently and with the all-important leek.

Community members gathered at the Sephardic Community Center in Gravesend on Dec. 20 to celebrate the occasion.

In 1992, Congregation Beit Yaakov was founded as Baltimore’s first inclusive Sephardic congregation.

It’s no secret to my family and friends that I have a deep passion for teaching, that I especially love teaching young students, and that my number one go-to topic is the wisdom and brilliance of great Sephardic rabbis.

More than 500 years later, in 2015, Madrid sought to make amends with an apology and offered Sephardic Jews Spanish citizenship.

Only a few know of the Sephardic community which operated in Vienna for some two hundred years.

A recent law that was meant to restore the citizenship of the descendants of Sephardic Jews ended on Applicants had to start their applications by the date, and many applications have yet to be notarized.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Amar lights a bonfire during the celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron in northern Israel on May 11, 2020.

Sephardic Jews wish one another “” on the intermediary days of Passover and Sukkot.

Also: a discussion of Spain’s new right of return for Sephardic Jews, and parsing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s foreign-policy stance towards Israel and Palestine.

An ad by Shas, the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party, sends the message home with a wallop: an elderly couple sit alone at their Sabbath table, peering across a sea of empty chairs.

For No’a Gorlin, the Zeved HaBat allowed her “to reach beyond my Ashkenazic boundaries and absorb how other Jewish communities — particularly the Sephardic Spanish and Portuguese communities — celebrate the beauty and richness of the covenantal process.

For people desperately seeking Jewish comfort foods — meaty sandwiches, earthy soups, bagels, blintzes and the like — take heart, you'll find both Ashkenazi (eastern Europe) and Sephardic (Middle Eastern, north African and Mediterranean) offerings here.