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Albert Israel
Jan 15, 20242 min read
Winter 2024 - Seattle
Our Seattle Sephardic Community has been very busy this fall and winter, with dozens of classes, Shabbat Dinners, scholars-in-residence,...


Magazine Staff
Sep 4, 20231 min read
First Site of Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation in Seattle’s Central District Named City Landmark
The Tolliver Temple (formerly SBH) earned a unanimous vote of support from the City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board to become a...


Cynthia Flash Hemphil
Sep 4, 20232 min read
Fall 2023 - Seattle Report
Members of Seattle’s Sephardic community hit the streets in July to join the first in-person tours of the old Sephardic neighborhood...


Beth Jacoby
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Appointment of new Northwest Yeshiva High School Head of School will make 2nd Sephardic Head of School for Jewish Day Schools in the Seattle Community!
On March 9th, the Northwest Yeshiva High School (NYHS) board announced their unanimous election of Rabbi Yehuda Gabay as the new Head of...

Rabbi Benjamin Hassan
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Winter 2023 - Seattle
The Seattle Sephardic Community is back in action like never before! We’ve been having a wonderful winter of new programs, youth...

Rabbi Mark Greenspan
Mar 1, 20233 min read
My Mother Tongue
I grew up in a world that was unaware of just how Ashkenazic it really was. Though my mother spoke Ladino and my father understood...


Magazine Staff
Sep 14, 20221 min read
Seattle gets a new Rabbi for our Sephardic communities!
Congratulations to one of our affiliate synagogues in the Pacific Northwest, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, the Rhodesli Sephardic...


Jeff Solam
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Spring 2022 - Seattle
With the pandemic winding down, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, the Rhodesli synagogue of Seattle, has been leading the return to in-person...
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