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#Hanukkah Alegre! In honor of the holiday, the ASF's Sephardi World Weekly presents Hanukkah and Honeycombs, the latest "Letter from the Land of Israel." This edition features #Sephardi_sage, Rabbi Yosef Albo (1380-1444), a Spanish philosopher and communal leader. Albo's classic Sefer ha-Ikkarim (“The Book of Roots”) contains a classic yet timely Sephardi teaching on ideal and real Judaism.
One of the defining features of the Rosh HaShanah holiday is the blowing of the shofar. Why do we blow the shofar on Rosh HaShanah? The American Sephardi Federation's Sephardi World Weekly has an answer from Rabbi Se’adya Gaon, the Egyptian-born and Babylonian-based 9th century scholar, poet, thinker, and political leader.
Moadim Lesimjá (Simcha)! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly featured articles on Kol Nidre in Tunis, Tunisia, Erez Bitton’s Radical Report, Moroccan Lemons for Sukkot, and Rocking El Nora AlilaThis Week’s Articles:1.) ASF Director of Publications Aryeh Tepper explains how the Bitton Report, by rooting Israeli identity in its Middle Eastern context, undercuts both the socialist-concocted “negation of t...
#Shavua_Tov! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly featured articles on Barefoot Iraqi Selichot, Halabi Israelis Condemn Assad, Tributes for Tunisian Rabbi, An American Jew in Kurdistan, and Yom Kippur PiyyutimThis Week’s Articles:1.) The Tunisian-born former Chief Rabbi of France/ Grand Rabbin Joseph Haim Sitrukuk, passed away on 25 September at the age of 71. Charismatic and humane, R’ Sitruk was r...
#Shanah_Tovah! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly featured articles on Crossing the the Bosphorus, the President of Portugal’s Visit to American Sephardi Federation, Untangling the Tale of an Orphan from Thessaloniki, Greece, & the 100th Anniversary of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.This Week’s Articles:1.) The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America began with forty young Jewish men and ...
#Shanah_Tovah! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly featured articles on Crossing the the Bosphorus, the President of Portugal’s Visit to American Sephardi Federation, Untangling the Tale of an Orphan from Thessaloniki, Greece, & the 100th Anniversary of the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.This Week’s Articles:1.) The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America began with forty young Jewish men and ...
The President of Portugal visits American Sephardi Federation
#Shabbat_Shalom! Today's Sephardi World Weekly features articles on Yemeni-Israeli Sisters in Vogue, Rhodes Paradise Lost, Recipe Saved, and Rosh Hashanah SelichotThis Week’s Articles:1.) #Vogue Magazine traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to check out the three Israeli sisters known as A-WA, a girls group that sings in Yemenite Arabic. Taken in by their style and sensibility, Vogue’s writer asked the mi...
For the month of September, American Sephardi Federation's Sephardi Ideas Monthly considers the amazing story of Nino Bitton (נינו ביטון), the son of Moroccan Jews اليهود المغاربة who immigrated to Israel, who used his extraordinarily gifted ear to become a walking encyclopedia of Andalusian music and master of the Oud. In 2011, at the age of 60 and after laboring in obscurity for decades, he fina...