The two institutions merged in the 1980s. Following a trip to Argentina, Sephardic Education Center founder Dr. Jose Nessim told Hasson about the Sefer Torah.

Sometime during the 13th Century, in a private study in Barcelona, an anonymous author sat and composed Sefer Ha-Chinuch – The Book of Education. This systematic study of the Torah’s 613 ...

In response to a request from the Jewish community here the Israel Government has presented a “Sefer Torah” which, like the majority of Montgomery’s Sephardic Jews, originated on the island ...

Allen Smith, of San Antonio, watches as Shmulie Klein, a scribe and rabbi from Fort Lauderdale, Fl., works on completing a handwritten Sephardic Torah scroll during dedication ceremony at the ...

The next Sephardic chief rabbi is Rabbi David Yosef, the Rabbinate announces. Yosef is the rabbi of Har Nof, a religious Jerusalem neighborhood, and is a veteran Torah teacher who is supported by ...

The synagogue is located at 1715 Anderson Road, Davis. Sephardic Jews ethnically descend from the Iberian Peninsula of the late 15th century, prior to the Spanish inquisition.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — As a fire raged through a historic city synagogue Friday afternoon, the congregation's longtime rabbi apparently raced into the burning building to rescue the Sefer Torah.

He cited the Rambam as saying that women who go out to wars commanded by the Torah went “to do the laundry,” he explained. “They didn’t wear uniforms and pants and the like, of course not.

A bible left behind on the lunar rover by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott may one day be joined by a Sefer Torah, a hand-written scroll sacred to Judaism. New Scientist reports this is the first ...