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Damage inside a Marrakech synagogue following the devastating earthquake.

Morocco earthquake damages two historic synagogues

Torah rimonim.

18th-century Sephardic silversmith's Torah decorations to be displayed in US museums for first time

By PENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA

Cover of Elizabeth Graver's novel 'Kantika'.

A novel of Sephardic life revives the Jewish family saga

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

ZAHAK TANVIR (left) visits The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue with the writer.

Spain’s Jews: A legacy of Jewish-Muslim friendship - opinion

By ELCHANAN POUPKO

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a party meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023.

Shas does not represent Moroccan Jewry, is Ashkenazi - former PMO official

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Moshe Shaul addressing a gathering of Ladino-speaking Jews in Jerusalem in 2012.

Remembering Moshe Shaul: The man who helped revive Ladino

By DANIEL SANTACRUZ

BEIT HARAV dedication ceremony a century ago, on 12 Sivan, 5683 / May 27, 1923. Seated on the dais is Rav Abraham Isaac Kook wearing his fur spodek; to his L are Harry Fischel, Herbert Samuel, and Sephardi chief rabbi Yaakov Meir.

A Sephardi renaissance is underway - opinion

By LEON SALTIEL

DIRECTOR OF the Porto Holocaust Museum, Michael Rothwell, clasping his hands, and Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal Dor Shapira, looking on, host Portuguese children from around the country on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Porto is an example for reestablishing a Jewish community - opinion

By GABRIEL SENDEROWICZ

THE GHRIBA synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, where this month’s attack took place: There was a sense of loss, but also an undercurrent of grim determination that this community would carry on, says the writer.

No fear, more effort to build after the Djerba attack - opinion

By MENDY CHITRIK

ISTANBUL’S OLD Ortaköy Cemetery.

Paying a visit to Jewish Istanbul

By BARBARA ANGELAKIS

‘DECAYING ROOTS’ shows the lamentable state of the Bhamdoun Synagogue in Lebanon.

Jerusalem art exhibit explores old Sephardi communities

Jews being airlifted from Iraq

Passover: Why the Exodus resonates with Jews from Arab countries

By LYN JULIUS

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a rally against Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana conversion and kashrut reforms plan, at the International Convention Center, on February 1, 2022.

Sephardi chief rabbi warns of Israel civil war, calls for peace

By Yaki Adamkar/Walla , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Molly Ranson and Francis Benhamou star in “Prayer for the French Republic,” a new off-Broadway play at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Lorraine Hansberry’s second play revived by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

SYNAGOGUE IN the Mellah, once home to the city’s Jewish population, Marrakech 2019. It was originally built in 1492 by Jews expelled from Spain

Remains of Medieval Synagogue found in Spain

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF