It is commonly believed that halakhically-based women’s prayer groups originated in contemporary circles of the progressive wing of Modern Orthodoxy. Think again. In his book Nahalat Avot, Rabbi Yosef ...

What happens when “an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Sephardic Chief Rabbi and a future Nobel Prize winning author walk into a café?” While such a dream meeting never took place, what we do know is that ...

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Usiel during the week-end officiated at a special ceremony on Mt. Zion at which prayers for world peace were recited. Present at the services, which were proclaimed last ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.