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for Germany. They are distinguished from Sephardic Jews, the other main group ... are Ashkenazim, with the exception of Sephardic Jews associated with the ...

*Mizrahi and Sephardic Orthodox Jews generally base their practice ... two chief rabbis: one Ashkenazic and one Sephardic. The rabbinate, however ...

in a cylindrical Aron (case) in the Sephardic practice, and in an often ... of years old such as the 800 Year Old Sephardic Sefer Torah from Spain. ...

and its reliance on the tradition of Sephardic rather than Ashkenazi Jewish ... Isserles' criticism attacked Karo's reliance on Sephardic ...

hole drilled in the tip of the horn. Sephardic Jewish shofars, on the ... a total of 100 sounds. According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts ...

) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic ... url= |April 17, 2004. His ancestors were Sephardic Jews. ...

contract) was the Torah. Some eastern Sephardic communities read out an ... book, and is widely used in eastern Sephardic and some German and Hasidic ...

This was the wedding of an Ashkenazi, or German, Jew to a Sephardic ... Knesseth Yisrael neighborhoods—one for Sephardic Jews, one for Ashkenazi—which ...

(Northern and Eastern European Jews) and Sephardic Jews (Spanish and Middle ... the late fifteenth century. Many of these Sephardic Jews fled to Italy others ...

to the absence of the Temple. Many Sephardic Jews, however, have the ... accumulated throughout the year. Many Sephardic families thoroughly wash ...

Torah are coming into the room. Conversely, Sephardic Jews and other non-Ashkenazi Jewish groups have traditionally affixed the Mezuzah case vertically. ...

Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...

Thomas, to Abraham Gabriel Pissarro, a Portuguese Sephardic Jew, and Rachel Manzana-Pomié, from the Dominican Republic. Pissarro lived in St. Thomas ...

#039;s mother was born in Sarajevo to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Bosnian Muslim mother. Alexander's entire family converted to the ...

Priest in the Temple of Jerusalem. Many Sephardic families, as well as Polish ... * [http://www.midrash.org/halakha/hanukkah.html Sephardic traditions ...

wear fezzes with turbans similar to that of Sephardic Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Today, Samaritans do not normally wear head coverings ...

Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin and Rebecca de Mendes. He emigrated with his parents to the ...

biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished. Sephardic and Yemenite Jews pronounce it, ribbī, while the modern Israeli pronunciation rabbī is derived ...

Travels" of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, a Sephardic rabbi of Spain.Marcus N. Adler, The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Critical Text, Translation ...

ways in different Jewish communities. Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spanish, Portuguese and North African descent) refer to this holiday as "the ...

Among Sephardic Jews, poetic prayers known as selichot are recited before the regular morning service (these are the same prayers recited before ...

" equally common in Ashkenazic and Sephardic groups * HaLevi, Halevi and Halevy are Hebrew language and all translate to "the Levi" ...

Born in London, David Ricardo was the third of 17 children in a Sephardic Jewish family (from Portugal) that emigrated from the Netherlands to ...

The typeface is based on a fifteenth century Sephardic semi-cursive hand. What would be called "Rashi script" was employed by early Hebrew ...

Thrace. After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews settled in Thessaloniki (known in this period as Salonica or Selanik), which became ...

practice of their faith through fear of death. Sephardic Jews living in Goa, many of whom had fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the Spanish Inquisition ...

from all nations. Many Conversos (Marranos or Sephardic Jews) were attracted to the city. In May 1544, a ship landed there filled with Portuguese refugees. ...

Sephardic music, the music of Spanish Jews, was born in medieval Spain, with cancioneros being performed at the royal courts. There are three ...

his poem, The Kingly Crown, is included in the Sephardic liturgy of the Day of Atonement. He is sometimes referred to as "Avicebron" in the ...

Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam in 1632. He was given the name 'Bento ...

since descendants of a Portuguese group of Sephardic Jews arrived from Amsterdam and Brazil in 1654. ==Culture== The culture of the Netherlands ...

(January 2002), whose signatories include the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Bakshi-Doron; Sheikh Tal El Sider, a Minister of State for the Palestinian ...

In a modern context, the text continues to be read by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews on Sabbath eve, to symbolize the love between the Jewish People ...

Disraeli descended from Italian Sephardic Jews from both his maternal and paternal sides, although he claimed Spanish ancestry during his own ...

Jewish communities, particularly that of the Sephardic communities in Spain. This led to the composition of many other commentaries in similar styles ...

*Jews, both Sephardic and AshkenaziEast European. ===Religion=== Because of the great number of ethnic groups in the country, there is no main ...

Russian Jews; with a significant minority of Sephardic, mostly Syrian Jews. [[Image:BuenosAiresCathedral1.JPG|thumb|left|300px|Buenos Aires' ...

] – Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/3* ...

Kabbala (or Kabbalah) (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, meaning "received tradition") refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical ...

dates to the settlement of 42 mostly Sephardic Portuguese Jews in Savannah in 1733. Atlanta also has a large and established Jewish community. ...

of German and Italian origin. There are also Sephardic Jews (Judeo-Spanish Jews). ===Sports=== The most popular sport in Ecuador, as in most South ...

as well as the native Algerian Jews (typically Sephardic in origin), became full French citizens; by contrast, the vast majority of Muslim Algerians ...

Site, and several Roman, Ottoman and Sephardic Jewish structures. ... to 16th century, however, nearly 20,000 Sephardic Jews immigrated to Greece ...

century. There is, however, a sizable number of Sephardic Jews in Cuba, who trace their origin to Turkey (primarily Istanbul and Thrace). Most of these ...

The Sephardim or Sephardic Jews trace their descent from the Jews of this period. Jewish scholarship flourished alongside the Muslim academies. ...

Spanish citizenship on the basis of being a Sephardic Jew, even if there was no evidences of Sephardism. When Franco was warned that Hitler would not ...

country. Pakistan is home to a small community of Sephardic Jews, but their numbers have been falling since the creation of Israel. There are also sizable ...

ethnic groups—Berbers and Arabs—Phoenicians, Sephardic Jews, and sub-Saharan Africans. The Arabs invaded Morocco in the seventh century and ...

unique interplay of native Andalusian, Islamic, Sephardic, and Gypsy cultures that existed in Andalusia prior to and after the Reconquest. Latin American ...

of whom live in Skopje. Most Macedonian Jews are Sephardic - the descendants of fifteenth century refugees who had fled the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions ...

claims that the Danse Macabre originated among Sephardic Jews in fourteenth century Spain (Bercovici, 1992). The poem "The Rattle Bag" ...

uneasy due to the large European and Sephardic Jewish population (see also pied noir), which largely evacuated to France when Algeria became ...

Sephardic Jews have over a 300 year history in South Carolina, especially in and around Charleston. South Carolina had, until around 1830, the ...

The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," or in Arabic "Dawlat Isrā'īl") is a country in the Southwest ...

an aunt's erroneous view that the family was Sephardic and had fled the Spanish Inquisition. For his early poems, Pinter used the pseudonym Pinta ...

off donations from off-country, while many Sephardic Jews found themselves a trade. Many Circassians and Bosnian Muslims were settled in the north ...