Sephardic Jewish History

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, undisputed leader of Sefardic Jewry, was able to restore the crown of Torah to its glory and...

Messianic beliefs die hard and even survive the death of obviously failed dead messiahs. Such was the case with Sabbatai...

Solomon ibn Gabirol is considered one of the primary philosopher-poets in Jewish history. His masterpiece, Keter Malchut, is the poem...

In 1948 the Jordanian Legion captured the entire Old City of Jerusalem and leveled the Churva...

“The Tribunal of the Inquisition” by Francisco de Goya The current three-week period on the Jewish...

Jewish history works in strange and surprising ways. A perfect example is how the Diaspora spread from Babylonia to North...

Plaque at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Photo by David Shay. Published under the...

  The Rambam's house in Fez, Morocco Just as with Rashi, it is impossible for the...

Two Sephardic Jews with an Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, 1895 The two main pillars on which all...

Sir Moses Montefiore February 15th is the anniversary of the liberation of the Jews arrested in...