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Sephardic Jews
During the 1930s, more than two-thirds of the shoe repairmen in Atlanta were Sephardic Jews.
October 25, 2023, 3:45 pm
Atlanta’s Sephardic Community Was Built on the Heels of Shoes
In the 1930s and 1940s, Sephardic-owned shoe repair shops dominated downtown Atlanta.
By Bob Bahr
Rabbi Peter Berg and Rabbi Lydia Medwin led the Temple’s trip to Morocco.
June 28, 2023, 10:41 am
Morocco Offers a Rich Portrait of Its Jewish Past
Jewish tourism between Morocco and visitors from Israel and America is on the rise.
By Bob Bahr
Nine different foods are incorporated into the Rosh Hashanah seder.
September 15, 2022, 4:04 pm
Sephardic Jews Start Rosh Hashanah with A Seder
Traditional celebrations include a seder plate with up to nine different foods.
By Bob Bahr
(Left to right) Brother Michael, mom Renay and dad Ned Blumenthal (far right) expressed their admiration for Rachel’s kindness and love of family tradition.
June 22, 2022, 1:51 pm
Rachel’s Road to Rhodes
The Blumenthal family celebrated Rachel’s bat mitzvah in the Old Jewish Quarter of Rhodes, Greece.
By Marcia Caller Jaffe
Braves player Cristian Pache is a practicing Christian but wears a Jewish star.
May 11, 2021, 4:58 pm
Cristian Pache’s Jewish Roots
The Braves player wears a gold Star of David for his mother, team reports.
By Nathan Posner
Vinício and Rosaura Álvarez Sierra, Juan and Katia Rivera Romo, and Rodolfo Romo Garcia and Rina Hernández Romo converted to Judaism with their children.
January 3, 2019, 4:11 pm
Families Find Judaism, Then Sephardic Ancestry
After researching their ancestry, a group of people of Hispanic descent who converted to Judaism and are now regular attendees at Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs.
By Kevin C. Madigan
The three families gather at MACoM in February for one of the less painful aspects of conversion
June 4, 2018, 4:35 pm
2 Urologists Do Mitzvah for Conversion
The Southside doctors don't charge for performing the necessary brit milah for each of the Mexican men.
By Marcia Caller Jaffe
Vinício and Rosaura Álvarez Sierra, Juan and Katia Rivera Romo, and Rodolfo Romo Garcia and Rina Hernández Romo converted to Judaism with their children.
June 4, 2018, 2:02 pm
Families Find Judaism, Then Sephardic Ancestry
Three Mexican families living in Northwest Georgia choose to convert before DNA fills in their history.
By Kevin C. Madigan
A painting of Nachmanides in Akko, Israel
May 24, 2018, 7:11 am
Ramban’s Debate Skills Forced His Exile
Moses Montefiore followed Nachmanides to Jerusalem more than 600 years later.
By Mariana Montiel
Different Trains Gallery Director Shawn VInson and Escher expert Doris Schattschneider. (Photo courtesy of Different Trains Gallery)
May 5, 2018, 9:30 pm
Sephardic Mentor Guided Escher to Graphic Arts
Works by the Dutch artist, who lost his teacher to the Holocaust, are on display in Decatur.
By Kevin C. Madigan
April 12, 2018, 3:16 pm
Obituary: Jeanne Antebi
She and her husband and children left Cairo as refugees and came to Atlanta via Paris.
April 10, 2018, 7:27 am
Greek Holocaust Film Airing on PBS
"Trezoros," telling the story of the Jewish community of Kastoria, is airing on Yom HaShoah.
By Atlanta Jewish Times
Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra was a noted astrologer, among other talents.
March 29, 2018, 6:38 am
Ibn Ezra Personified Diaspora Wandering
Post-expulsion, Sephardim who settled in Livorno became the Syrian nobility.
By Mariana Montiel
Aron Rodrigue, the Daniel E. Koshland professor of Jewish culture and history at Stanford, says the Ottoman Empire’s breakup led to a decline in Sephardic culture.
February 21, 2018, 2:33 pm
Ottoman Empire Carried Sephardim Up and Down
The Jews who fled Spain and Portugal formed a new community that couldn't outlast its home, Aron Rodrigue says.
By Sarah Moosazadeh
Samuel William Fores depicts the epic first fight between Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphries in 1788, which Mendoza lost.
February 21, 2018, 1:23 pm
From Poetry in Toledo to Pugilism in London
Yehuda Halevi and Daniel Mendoza stand out in Sephardic history.
By Mariana Montiel
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