Ashkenazi Jewry
What happens when an Ashkenazi rabbi leads a Sephardi synagogue during the Days of Awe? A profound encounter with new moods in Jewish life.
The legend of the Kalonymos family.
Asher ben Yeḥiel.
Some were more European than today’s Ashkenazim, other more Middle Eastern.
Quotidian piety.
Destruction vs. redemption—and the remarkable survival of European Jewry.
Including a “mazal tov” ring.
Of shlukh and shlokh.
If you don’t know what it means, you can probably figure it out. (Or you can read this column.)
And perhaps by love, too.
While feasting and intoxication on the holiday of Purim are discussed in the Talmud, costumes are not. Yet dressing up has been a standard practice. . .
Throughout his life, Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel (1880-1953), the first Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, held fast to a vision of breaking down the divisions. . .