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- The word is derived from Hebrew, due to influence of Sephardi Jews who came to Suriname in the 17th century. This is also the source of Sranan "kaseri" 'ritually clean, kosher'.
- For this reason, additional penitential prayers called Selichot are added to the daily prayers, except on Shabbat. Sephardi Jews add these prayers each weekday during Elul.
- The Portuguese Inquisition principally focused upon the Sephardi Jews, whom the state forced to convert to Christianity.
- In Jaffa, where the European and North African migrants arrived by ship, a vibrant commercial community developed in which Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews inter-mingled.
- Sephardi Hebrew is the traditional pronunciation of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Sephardi Jews in the countries of the former Ottoman Empire, with the exception of Yemenite Hebrew.
- 1 the government created concessions to nationals of several countries and Sephardi Jews historically linked with Spain allowing them to seek citizenship after five years rather than the customary ten required for residence in Spain.
- In 1924, the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera approved a decree to enable Sephardi Jews to obtain Spanish nationality.
- In order to more specifically define the Lemba people's origins, Parfitt and other researchers conducted a larger study in order to compare additional Lemba subjects (whose clans were recorded) with males from South Arabia and Africa, as well as Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews.
- Some Hasidic and Sephardi Jews recite Psalms, such as Psalm 30, Psalm 67, and Psalm 91.
- "Pieds-Noirs" (including indigenous Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews) and "Harkis" accounted for 13% of the total population of Algeria in 1962.
- , 'school') in everyday speech. Sephardi Jews and Romaniote Jews generally use the term "kal" (from the Hebrew "ḳahal", meaning "community").
- Beit Romano was built and owned by Yisrael Avraham Romano of Constantinople and served Sephardi Jews from Turkey. In 1901, a Yeshiva was established there with a dozen teachers and up to 60 students.
- Among Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jews, in their various diasporas, the family name Toledano is still prevalent – indicating an ancestry traced back to this city (the name is also attested among non-Jews in various Spanish-speaking countries).
- Other terms for prayer books are "tefillot" (...) among Sephardi Jews, "tefillah" among German Jews, and "tiklāl" (...) among Yemenite Jews.
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