Categories: Practices

by Julia Phillips Cohen, Ph.D. Like so many immigrants before and after them, Ottoman Jews who made the trek halfway […]

  by Saba Soomekh, Ph.D. Blending sacred traditions, folkways, and secular cultural influences, weddings (and the customs and rituals surrounding […]

  By Aomar Boum, Ph.D. Before the twentieth century, a few Moroccan Jews came to America seeking economic opportunities. In […]

  by Maureen Jackson, Ph.D. In 2015, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles placed an order for 1,000 new […]

by Max Modiano Daniel During the first few decades of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and its Southern California environs […]

by Bryan Kirschen, Ph.D. The early 1930s were a time of considerable development for the Rhodesli (Rhodian) faction of Sephardim […]

by Max Modiano Daniel “What actually makes a recipe or dish Sephardic? Is it a style of cooking? Does it […]

By Simone Salmon Between the 1940s and 1970s, Sephardic Jews would gather to play and hear Ladino tunes played live by […]

by Rachel Smith As the great ethnic revival of the 1960s and 1970s swept across the nation, Americans around the […]

by Lior Sternfeld, Ph.D. featuring photos by Iranian/French photographer Abbas “They settled in L.A. because so much of it reminds […]