Word: sephardi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Innocence & Enticement. Born in Bulgaria in 1885 as Julius Mordecai Pincas, the eighth of eleven children of a Spanish Sephardi and his Serbian-Italian wife, he was totally unconcerned with nationality. He Frenchified his name to Pascin, but he was equally at home in Paris, Munich and New York, where he eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1920. Nor did his riotous ways change with his location; everywhere he went, he liked to sponge up wine, Pernod and brandy, painted with 30 or 40 friends carousing about him in his studio. And mostly his subjects and companions were the girls...
...authority in religious matters, and for Jews in Israel it also has full, legal jurisdiction over marriage and divorce. The two major divisions of Judaism-the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim-are each represented by a Chief Rabbi of their persuasion, and these two jointly head a council of five Sephardi and five Ashkenazi sages. Since 1959, the chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and onetime Chief Rabbi of Liverpool. They also...
...division of Judaism into Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...