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Lift your head high - St. Louis Jewish Light


Lift your head high
St. Louis Jewish Light
It has appeared several times in the Torah already. In his commentary on the opening verse of this week's parashah, the Ramban, Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi (Nachmanides), one of the important Sephardic commentators on Torah, quotes a midrash to ...

To whom does the Torah belong? - Jerusalem Post


To whom does the Torah belong?
Jerusalem Post
Think of it this way: Each letter of the Torah represents a person; each chapter a community; each portion a city; each book a different segment of the Jewish population – male and female, young and old, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, rich and poor.

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Chacham Ovadia: Aryeh Deri is a Big Rav, Not an Askan - Yeshiva World News


Chacham Ovadia: Aryeh Deri is a Big Rav, Not an Askan
Yeshiva World News
Rav Ovadia credits Aryeh Deri with establishing many yeshivot, yeshivot that do not discriminate between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. The rav added that most view him as an askan and simply are unaware of his torah knowledge and who the real person is.

Ethiopian chief rabbi welcomes Torah's translation - Jerusalem Post


Ethiopian chief rabbi welcomes Torah's translation
Jerusalem Post
By RUTH EGLASH The chief rabbi of Israel's Ethiopian community, Yosef Hadane, welcomed on Tuesday the first-ever professional translation of the five books of the Torah, or Chumash, into Amharic. The Chumash – which is being published by Koren ...

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Ultra-Orthodox, Arabs refuse to join equal draft law committee - Haaretz


Haaretz

Ultra-Orthodox, Arabs refuse to join equal draft law committee
Haaretz
That's because the two Haredi parties, the Sephardi Shas party and the Ashkenazi United Torah Judaism, have refused to send representatives; they don't want to be seen as cooperating with the government on an issue that their voters deeply oppose.

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This Day, May 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)


This Day, May 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
1941: Germans stole a 16th century Torah scroll from the Sephardic community at Salonica. This Torah was said to have come from Spain. The Germans then burned all the books and three Sefer Torahs. When the chief rabbi returned, he found all of the ...

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New Bulgarian conversion course offering a pathway to 'official' Judaism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency


New Bulgarian conversion course offering a pathway to 'official' Judaism
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Decades of Communist rule helped wipe out traditional Jewish observance in Bulgaria, but in the 20 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Bulgaria's Sephardic Jews have reemerged as a community. Today an estimated 6000 to 7000 Jews, including people ...

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Eliyahu Hanavi In Brooklyn? - Chabad Info


Eliyahu Hanavi In Brooklyn?
Chabad Info
All the more so, the Torah of a Kohen and the Torah of Rishon L'Tziyon [the chief rabbi of the Sephardim] (and in Tziyon itself, “Rishon – the First – of Tziyon”). Rabbi Eliyahu: “U'va l'Tziyon goel – And a redeemer shall come to Tziyon” (Yeshayahu ...

The Rigors of 'Hagbah' - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal

The Rigors of 'Hagbah'
Wall Street Journal
The ritual lifting of the Torah scroll during Jewish Sabbath services is a tremendous honor. It can also be a perilous undertaking: Some scrolls can weigh 25 or 30 pounds. At the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation on East 75th Street, one Torah scroll ...

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When Handling Precious Scrolls, Torah Lifters Pray for Successful Hoist - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal

When Handling Precious Scrolls, Torah Lifters Pray for Successful Hoist
Wall Street Journal
By LUCETTE LAGNADO At the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation, Chalom Sibony gets a hand hoisting an elaborate scroll weighing about 60 pounds. NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rabbi Robert Wolkoff has a recurrent nightmare. A congregant is lifting a holy Torah ...

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