The word Sephardi refers to Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain and Portugal until. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Many Sephardi customs found their way into general use. From Wordnik.com. [Levant: Women in the Jewish Communities after the Ottoman Conquest of 1517.] Reference
So we know that Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are closely related. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The relationship between WIZO and the Sephardi sector went well at first. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Sephardic Women.] Reference
I dispute that Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Pre-war Salonika was a bustling and exciting place for a young Sephardi woman. From Wordnik.com. [Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle.] Reference
Her mother, Hadassah, born in Hebron, was a member of a prominent Sephardi family. From Wordnik.com. [Emma Leon Gottheil.] Reference
By the nineteenth century, the Sephardi community was vastly outnumbered by Ashkenazim. From Wordnik.com. [Sephardi Women in the United States.] Reference
The Sephardi cultural model remained dominant in America well into the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba] Reference
The Sephardi Zionist movement had also used “the female element” for fund-raising activities. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Sephardic Women.] Reference
The film tells the story of a Sephardi and an Ashkenazi, one working-class, the other an intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [Filmmakers, Israeli.] Reference
It also opened its doors to Sephardi children, although the majority of children were of Ashkenazi origin. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Philanthropic Organizations.] Reference
Sephardi women thus lived a very sheltered existence in the South Slav lands before the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [Yugoslavia.] Reference
When this society celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1924, 470 Sephardi women were counted among its ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Yugoslavia.] Reference
Yet another group of Sephardi women created the Comité Femenino Sefaradí Amigos de la Histadrut in October 1945. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Sephardic Women.] Reference
Since children from orthodox Sephardi families did not have any other place to study, they integrated into this yeshiva. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico: Education.] Reference
An exception occurred in 1925, when a group of Sephardi women organized to set up a modern kindergarten in the center of Buenos Aires. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Jewish Education.] Reference
After the Segunda Convención Regional Sefaradí in 1948, conflicts among the Sephardi women threatened to do away with a Sephardic WIZO. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Sephardic Women.] Reference
Being black and having Sephardi ancestors, I would have been doubly barred from attending any of the top Tier I law schools that accepted me. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Wright: "This Is Not A Crackpot Church"] Reference
During the early waves of immigration to the United States, Sephardi and German Jews established full-time schools in large population centers. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Teachers Colleges in the United States.] Reference
You may even have claimed somewhere that Ashkenazi Jews are really Khazars - that would be about as idiotic as this claim that Sephardi Jews = Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from various areas in the Sephardi world. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Sephardic Women.] Reference
A Sephardi branch of the Amigas de la Histadrut was founded in 1945, thanks to the untiring energy of Judith Isajaroff, a Sephardi woman from Samarkand. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Zionist Activities.] Reference
In 1847 the Ashkenazi community joined the schools and together with the Sephardi community opened the Hebrew National Institution for both boys and girls. From Wordnik.com. [Caribbean Islands and the Guianas.] Reference
On Passover, Sephardi Jews eat rice and corn, foods that Ashkenazi Jews shun as not kosher during the holiday; so are those foods kosher for Passover or not?. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Transgender Professor at Yeshiva U. -- Mazel Tov!] Reference
Most reside in the capital city of Caracas, comprising a tightly knit community made up of roughly equal numbers from Ashkenazi and Sephardi countries of origin. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo Chávez's Jewish Problem] Reference
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