Sephardi
November 18, 2025, 9:21 am
Evoking heritage through food
From Moroccan dafina to Iraqi t'bit, the Sephardic Spice Girls are sharing their families' treasured recipes, and preserving Jewish history through food.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue president Joanne Levy with students exploring the Sephardi Heritage Museum of Australia.
October 29, 2025, 4:49 pm
Sephardi Association of Victoria turns 60
"Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue is proud to be investing in the young people of Melbourne's Jewish community."
By AJN STAFF
Presence, 1999. Photo: supplied
January 29, 2025, 12:41 pm
The influence of and connection to Islamic art
‘Since both religions are averse to figurative representation, Islamic art was easily adopted and became part of Jewish art and life’
By AJN STAFF
Sassoon Yehuda Sephardi Synagogue.
September 10, 2023, 7:23 am
A vision to share tradition and heritage
"It is only by preserving our traditions, that we can ensure a lasting legacy for future generations," Levy said. "Our vision is to preserve, value, share and entrust our Sephardi traditions and cultural heritage."
By Carol Saffer
April 12, 2022, 1:02 pm
A Sephazi Ashkefardi seder
Rice, legumes, peas, lentils … there are always questions around who can eat what over Pesach. But what other differences are there between Ashkenazi Jews and those who are of Sephardi or Mizrahi heritage?
By Jessica Abelsohn
The cover of The Flying Camel features A-WA, an Israeli band made up of the three sisters Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim. Photo: Rotem Lebel.
March 15, 2022, 9:45 am
Stories of Mizrahi and Sephardi women
Feeling forever silenced, Loolwa Khazzoom is quiet no more. Khazzoom whose heritage is part of the fabric of her very being, has updated her anthology, The Flying Camel, proving that not all Judaism is Ashkenazi.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Sephardi synagogue, Amsterdam. Photo: Wikipedia.org
December 14, 2021, 12:30 pm
The Spinoza controversy resurfaces in Amsterdam
Yitzhak Melamed, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has been denied entry to the Portuguese Synagogue and library in Amsterdam.
By SHIRA HANAU & CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Four generations of Iraqi kiddish cups
August 27, 2021, 8:48 am
A different Rosh Hashanah
Growing up Sephardi meant editor Jessica Abelsohn did things very differently to her Ashkenazi friends. Her Rosh Hashanah table, especially, is a world away from dipping apple into honey. She shares her experience on how it felt growing up Sephardi in an Ashkenazi world and explains how her Rosh Hashanah table is set.
By Jessica Abelsohn
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