sephardic in English

adjective

(about Jews) of Spanish or North African descent; pertaining to Jews of Spanish or North African descent

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1. The Ashkenazi Jews are often referred to in distinction to Sephardic Jews

2. On January 30, 1995, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel deliberately pronounced the divine name.

3. Ashkenazim constantly lump Sephardic Jews in with Mizrahi Jews because it seems they don’t consider it worth learning about the differences

4. Thus, you do not need to travel far to see the main places of interest like the cathedral, Alcazar, El Greco House and the Sephardic Museum.

5. Grim Bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!” For Emma Lazarus – an American Jew of Sephardic descent — the “two-faced year” of 1492 held a double-edged irony.

6. Israeli music contains musical influences from all over the world; Mizrahi and Sephardic music, Hasidic melodies, Greek music, jazz, and pop rock are all part of the music scene.

7. Sephardic cantors call it the Tefillah ('prayer') mode, whereas Ashkenasi cantors simply call it Adonoy Moloch , after the beginning of the text, which is taken from Psalm 93 and sung originally as the opening

8. He was the fourth of five children (one died in childbirth) of John Michaelis Barnardo, a furrier who was of Sephardic Jewish descent, and his second wife, Abigail, an Englishwoman and member of the Plymouth Brethren.

9. As the prayer par excellence, it is designated as the "Tefillah" (prayer), while among the Sephardic Jews it is known as the "'Amidah," i.e., the prayer which the worshiper is commanded to recite standing (see also Zohar, i

10. ‘Collaboration between Sephardim and Ashkenazim was limited, due to differences of language and culture.’ ‘Yet they are all there - religious and non-religious, Ashkenazim and Sephardim.’ ‘There are famous disputes, for example, between Orthodox Jews of Ashkenazi and Sephardic origin over the status of corn and rice on Passover.’

11. Eli and Rebecca Almo Joel and Maureen Benoliel Harley and Lela Franco Richard and Barrie Galanti Marty and Sharon Lott The Sephardic Studies Program is also pleased to work with partners on and off campus: Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, the Department of History, Ottoman and Turkish Studies as well as Persian Studies in Near Eastern

12. In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development