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		This covenant is at the root of Jewish tradition: the belief that Jews and God have a mutually binding contract, symbolized by the brit milah or ritual circumcision of infant males.
		The major divisions among Jews are the Ashkenazi Jews (from Eastern and Northern Europe) and the Sephardi Jews (who tended to populate the Mediterranean areas of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East).
		The Jews of Northern and Eastern Europe are known as Ashkenazi Jews (from the Hebrew word for Germany).
	www.jewishindependent.ca /judaism (3170 words)

	The Jews of Kyrgyzstan
		Ashkenazi Jews dwelled in the new, ‘European’ part of the city along with Russians and Tatars, while Sephardi Jews, only some of them considered subjects of the Russian Empire while the others were regarded as subjects of ‘foreign states’ inhabited the old district of Osh.
		Everyday life of Sephardi Jews was very much alike to that of their Moslem neighbors: they built their houses in the Uzbek style, consumed similar food and dress in similar cloths, but lived in separate communities from the local Uzbek or Persian inhabitants.
		By 1916 some Jews of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish war refugees and POW from the German and Austro-Hungarian armies were sent to Kyrgyzstan where they were compelled to work in coalmines, irrigation projects, railway routes and as technical personnel in the local factories.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Kyrgyzstan.asp (3444 words)

	Judaism
		One is according to historical and geographical background: Ashkenazi of northern, central and eastern Europe, and Sephardi of the Iberian peninsula and North Africa.
		Orthodox Jews have a fundamentalist and rigid interpretation of their religion, and the Jews that are most negative towards the modern society are normally from this group.
		For many Jews, the synagogue in Jerba, Tunisia, is considered the oldest synagogue in Africa and hence sacred.
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	Judaism
		One is according to historical and geographical background: Ashkenazi of northern, central and eastern Europe, and Sephardi of the Iberian peninsula and North Africa.
		Orthodox Jews have a fundamentalist and rigid interpretation of their religion, and the Jews that are most negative towards the modern society are normally from this group.
		Many Jews have felt in exile when living in especially European countries, and many have known that their future in one spot cannot always be taken for granted.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/judaism.htm (2559 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges \| The Jews ...
		The ports where Jews settled were cities and towns built upon the importance of commerce and pragmatism and as a result mercantile Jews often gained privileges and rights that Jews elsewhere did not have.
		Jews settling in Charleston were from a multitude of countries and as they were involved or connected with the mercantile trade a large number of them were from London and the Caribbean, as well as Germany and Poland.
		Jews who had 'noble' ancestors would join societies such as the Daughters of the American Revolution and as Sephardim were [or at least were recognised as] the earliest settlers some Ashkenazi Jews changed their names to Sephardi names, usually those names of prominent families.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/seascapes/romain.html (7204 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sephardi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sephardim SEPHARDIM [Sephardim], one of the two major geographic divisions of the Jewish people, consisting of those Jews whose forebears in the Middle Ages resided in the Iberian Peninsula, as distinguished from those who lived in Germanic lands, who came to be known as the Ashkenazim (see Ashkenaz).
		Jews JEWS [Jews] [from Judah ], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism.
		A Livornese "port Jew" and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire.(Judeo-Spanish literature)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sephardi (357 words)

	Sephardim
		Jews were able to coexist peacefully with their neighbors; however, they were still treated as dhimmis, "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) who are protected under Islamic law.
		Jews did not have complete autonomy and had to pay a special tax, the jizha, but were able to freely practice their religion.
		Jews wore the clothing style of their Moorish neighbors, although they were not allowed to wear silk or furs.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/Sephardim.html (1930 words)

	Sephardi Jews \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		In the strictest sense, Sephardic Jews, also called Sephardim are Jews who are descendants of Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal and who settled in southern France, Italy, North Africa, Turkey, Asia Minor, the Netherlands, England, North and South America, Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Hungary.
		Jews from those other communities are also sometimes called "Oriental (Eastern) Jews" or the Hebrew equivalent "Mizrakhim".
		This Decree was symbolically revoked in 1996 by the Portuguese Parliament.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /judaism_guide/sephardi_jews/index.htm (1080 words)

	Judaism 101: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
		Most American Jews today are Ashkenazic, descended from Jews who emigrated from Germany and Eastern Europe from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, although most of the early Jewish settlers of this country were Sephardic.
		Although some individual Sephardic Jews are less observant than others, and some individuals do not agree with all of the beliefs of traditional Judaism, there is no formal, organized differentiation into movements as there is in Ashkenazic Judaism.
		Sephardic Jews have a different pronunciation of a few Hebrew vowels and one Hebrew consonant, though most Ashkenazim are adopting Sephardic pronunciation now because it is the pronunciation used in Israel.
	www.jewfaq.org /ashkseph.htm (735 words)

	Sephardim
		Sephardi Jews (ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazi Jews and/or Mizrahi Jews.
		However, the spread of Jews into Europe is most commonly associated with the Diaspora which ensued from the Roman conquest of Judea, emigration from the land of Israel, into the greater Roman Mediterranean area antedated the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans under Titus.
		Assis, Yom Tov, The Jews of Spain: From Settlement to Expulsion, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988)
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Sephardim.html (4687 words)

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		The examples of Jews converting to Christianity in the last thousand years or so are too numerous to mention, and there is no question that millions of people who identify as non-Jewish today have Jewish ancestry.
		Kurdish Jews are most closely related to Sephardi Jews (22) and Muslim Kurds (22), Pakistani Parsi (23), Ashkenazi Jews (25), Turks (26), Palestinian Arabs (28), Ossetians (30), Cypriots (31), Greeks (32), and Armenians (35).
		The close relationship between Sephardim and Kurdish Jews is possibly at least partly a result of the significant interaction between the Jews of Iraq and the Jews of Spain and North Africa, especially from the eighth to the tenth centuries CE.
	www.cryptojews.com /Comparing_DNA.htm (2358 words)

	The Sephardim in England
		The Jews came to England in 1657 at the time of Oliver Cromwell, and the Bevis Marks Synagogue was built in 1701.
		When the first Sephardi Jews came to this country over 300 years ago, they were living in the city.
		The Sephardi Jews, even if they had differences among them, and they did have many differences, would always manage to remain as a cohesive group.
	www.dangoor.com /70011.html (1400 words)

	The Jewish Community of Turnu Severin, Romania
		However, Jews started to settle permanently in Turnu Severin only during the 1830s, after Cerneti, the former county main town was destroyed in the 1828-1829 war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
		The numbers of Jews in Turnu Severin declined after WW1, while in 1925 there were 640 Jewish inhabitants in the town, their number was reduced to 446 in 1930 making up about two percent of the total population The Sephardi community joined in 1928 the newly established Union of the Sephardi Communities in Romania.
		The facade of the Sephardi synagogue was designed to be reminiscent of the Moorish style prevalent in the medieval synagogues of Spain, thus underlying the fact that this is a "Spanish" synagogue.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/TurnuSeverin.asp (1518 words)

	EJP \| News \| Berlin opens its first Sephardi synagogue since WWII
		The first Sephardi synagogue to open in Berlin since the the Holocaust was officially unveiled to the public last month in a ceremony attended by the rabbis of most of Berlin’s other synagogues.
		Sephardis are Jewish people who originate from Latin countries such as Spain and Italy or from north Africa.
		For a number of years, sporadic Sephardi prayer services were held in the home of the city’s former Kosher butcher, Avraham Daus, who is of Yemenite origin.
	www.ejpress.org /article/news/8247 (471 words)

	Sephardic Passover Customs and Traditions For Pesach
		Similarly, a "Sephardi" was either a Spanish-Jewish person or a Portuguese-Jewish person, and the word "Sephardic" described Jews who adopted the rich cultural and religious traditions of the Spanish-Jews and Portuguese-Jews.
		A variation of this is performed among Sephardic Egyptian Jews, where not just a child is given the chance to re-enact the Passover story and be asked the questions, but each person at the Passover seder table will takes turns re-enacting the exodus from Egypt.
		Yemenite Jews will conduct the re-enactment of the Exodus from Egypt by having the seder leader throw a bag with the afikomen matzah in it over his shoulder like a knapsack.
	www.angelfire.com /pa2/passover/sephardicpassovercustoms.html (3884 words)

	Zionism for the Ages-Egyptian Jews, Egypt, Zionism and Israel, Israel Bonan and Rami Mangoubi (Arab Jews Speak Out)
		Anti-Zionist Sephardi Jews insist they speak on behalf of all "Arab Jews," that they are not Zionists, and that Zionism and feelings for Israel and the Jewish people are inventions of European Ashkenazy Jews.
		Reading their articles, we are to believe that all the ills that befell us as Jews from Arab countries are born out of the Israeli experience.
		Jews contributed, beyond their proportion in the Egyptian population, to all aspects of life in Egypt.
	www.zionism-israel.com /zionism_egypt_Jews.htm (2021 words)

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		Therefore an understanding of the uses, functions and meanings of music in the Sephardi societies in exile may add new dimensions in the critical examination of the Sephardi phenomenon.
		Also the roles of Sephardi and non-Sephardi individuals who were involved in the preservation, publication and performance of their music will be discussed.
		Modes of Prayer: The Canonization of the Maqamat in the Prayers of the Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.princeton.edu /~rsimon/seroussicrs2.html (999 words)

	The World Sephardi Federation - Letter of Introduction
		The World Sephardi Federation was founded in 1925 at the international convention of Sephardi Jews held in Vienna, prior to the 14th Zionist Congress.
		In light of this distress, the heads of the Sephardi communities in the Diaspora sounded their voice against this situation, and joined the public struggle for improvement of conditions of the immigrants from Asia and Africa in Israel.
		The Sephardi Federation is represented in the Zionist institutions - the Zionist Congress, the Zionist General Council, the Zionist Executive, as well as the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency and the World Jewish Congress.
	www.jafi.org.il /wsf/intro.htm (1396 words)

	Sephardi
		The name Sephardim was attributed to the Jews who were forced to leave Spain and Portugal in 1492.
		The rituals of the Sephardi were of the Babylonian traditions.
		And in July 2000, the Iranian-born Sephardi Jew Moshe Katsav was elected president.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/jud_seph.htm (679 words)

	Informed Comment
		In Islam, Jews were considered a "protected minority." They were not equal citizens with Muslims, but then there was no idea of citizenship or of equality in the modern political sense in any medieval society.
		Jews in pre-1948 Iraq were numerous (about a third of Baghdad) and relatively well off.
		In my view, the Israelis should pay compensation to all the Palestinians, and the Arab states should pay compensation to the Sephardi Jews who lost their property, and the Palestinians should get to form their state, and then everyone would be square.
	www.juancole.com /2004/12/have-arabs-or-muslims-always-hated.html (2202 words)

	Official Website of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
		Official Website of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
		Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) is a coalition of Jewish communal organizations operating under the auspices of the
		Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the American Sephardi Federation in partnership with
	www.justiceforjews.com (88 words)

	Sephardim
		Sephardi is a term also used to distinguish between the two major divisions (actually the differences are quite minor) in Jewish customs and rituals.
		The Sephardi Jews of Iran often have some very prominent genetic problems due to mixing within a limited population, both on the physical and molecular levels.
		Jews in Places - a web site that is dedicated to learning about the various Jews around the world -- their culture, their religious practices and their particular interests.
	jewishwebindex.com /sephardi.htm (3121 words)

	Sephardic and Ashkenazic Passover / Pesach Differences
		The Romanites were overwhelmed by the influx of Spanish Jews in 1492, who fled Spain during the peak of the Spanish Inquisition and thus most Romanites were absorbed into the Sephardic culture though several pockets of Romaniote culture remained in Greece, most notably in Ioannina (Yanina) and Crete.
		The name "Romaniotes" appears to come from "Roman", denoting Jews who were part of the Roman Empire.), Ethiopian Jews (Jews from Ethiopia), and many other African Jews whose linguistic, musical and culinary customs are different from those of the Sephardim and Ashkenazim and from each other, including their customs relating to Passover.
		Many Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews also conclude the Passover holiday by gathering near midnight either in a synagogue or in a town square to dance and sing the "Song of the Sea" from the Book of Exodus, Chapter 15.
	www.angelfire.com /pa2/passover/sephardicandashkenazicpassover.html (3222 words)

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