Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the International Director of the Sephardic Educational Center.
It’s been eleven months since October 7, and it’s been the most intense, painful, tragic and traumatic period of mourning and Kaddish in recent Jewish memory.
This week, let the words of three major Sephardic halakhic authorities speak for themselves.
Late in the 15th century, the brilliant Sephardic Bible commentator Don Isaac Abarbanel was sitting in his study in Monopoli, Italy, writing a detailed commentary on the Book of Isaiah.
Rabbi Uziel’s vision for Israeli society is our light beyond this darkness.
Reading his words in a post-October 7th world, I look back to what Rabbi Uziel and the Jewish world were facing after Tisha B’Av, Summer of 1933.
The return of my column, “Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land.”
If ever there was a musical metaphor for the place that I now call home – Israel – it is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
On Passover night, God took us out of Egypt. On the Seventh Day, Hamas took them back.
The train in Israel is a magical place, and Am Yisrael – jeans and black coats together – are a magical people.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.