Later Sephardic yeshivot are usually on the model either of Porat Yosef or of the Ashkenazi institutions.

At first he went to Porat Yoseph, the main Sephardic yeshiva of Jerusalem and then he left to Halberstadt, Germany and studied there in the local yeshiva.

The recent works of Halakha, Kaf HaChaim, Ben Ish Chai and Yalkut Yosef are considered authoritative in many Sephardic communities.

* Siddur Zehut Yosef ( Daily and Shabbat ) According to the Rhodes and Turkish Traditions, Hazzan Isaac Azose, Seattle, Washington: Sephardic Traditions Foundation, 2002

The Ben Ish Chai, Kaf Ha ' Chaim, and much more recently, the Yalkut Yosef are similar works by Sephardic Rabbis for their communities.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remains its spiritual leader today, it primarily represents the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

This position is supported by former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

In 1973 Yosef was elected the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel by a majority of 81 to 68 votes, replacing Yitzhak Nissim.

This project is essentially innovative, in that its attempt to unify the various Halakhic traditions in light of the rulings of Yosef Karo does not constitute a return to the traditionally accepted Sephardic approach ( nor, indeed, to the traditional approach of the Jews of Baghdad, where Yosef was born ).

Tzvi Zohar argues that Yosef adopts a melting pot approach, in that he seeks to unify the traditions of all Jews in Israel, Sephardic and Ashkenazi alike.

Specifically, he argues that Yosef's halakhic approach is not, as Yosef attempts to portray it, a return to a traditional form of Sephardic ruling, but rather an innovative formulation of a particular Sephardic approach to Halakha which Yosef himself fashioned.

According to Lau, Yosef claims that all Sephardic Jews accepted the rulings of Karo as binding in the Diaspora, but over time deviated from them.

Thus, Lau believes that Yosef directs his rulings only at Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, since the Ashkenazi Jews never accepted upon themselves the rulings of Karo.

Lau views Yosef as operating on two fronts: the first against the Ashkenzi leadership which seeks to apply Ashkenazi rulings and customs to the Sephardim, and the second against the Sephardic and Mizrahi communities themselves, in demanding that they unite under the rulings of Karo.

Yosef sees this as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Sephardic approach to Halakha compared to the Ashkenazi approach.

* Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of Shas

In 1973 Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, then the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, based on the Radbaz and other accounts, ruled that the Beta Israel were Jews and should be brought to Israel.

Yosef Chaim or in Iraqi Hebrew Yoseph Ḥayyim ( 1 September 1832 – 30 August 1909 ) ( Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד ) was a leading hakham ( Sephardic Rabbi ), authority on Jewish law ( Halakha ) and Master Kabbalist.

* Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-born Halakhist, Posek and Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel

These included Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a powerful Sephardic rabbi with inclinations towards Shamir's nemesis, Labour leader Peres, and the spiritual leader of the Shas party.

Two years later he founded ' Or HaTorah ' Yeshiva for gifted Sephardic Yeshiva students.

This Yeshiva ( which did not remain open for long ) was the first of many which he established, later with the help of his sons, in order to facilitate Torah education for Sephardic Jews and establish the leadership of the community for future generations.

He was a significant benefactor of the American University of Beirut, and he was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yeshiva University ( where he established the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies ) for his ongoing support of those institutions.

At Bet El Yeshiva, he belonged to a group of 12 mekubalim along with Hida, Rabbi Yom-Tov Algazi and other sages of Sephardic and Yemenite congregations.

This pronunciation, in the form used by the Jerusalem Sephardic community, is the basis of the Hebrew phonology of Israeli native speakers.

* The Aram Soba Siddur: According to the Sephardic Custom of Aleppo Syria Rabbi Moshe Antebi, Jerusalem: Aram Soba Foundation, 1993

The Romaniotes had distinct customs, very different from those of the Sephardic Jews, and closer to those of the Italian Jews: some of these are thought to be based on the Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud.

Luria was born in 1534 in Jerusalem in what is now the Old Yishuv Court Museum to an Ashkenazi father, Solomon, and a Sephardic mother.

* The Aram Soba Siddur: According to the Sephardic Custom of Aleppo Syria, Moshe Antebi: Jerusalem, Aram Soba Foundation 1993 ( contains minḥah and arbit only )

The early 20th century saw some popular commercial recordings of Sephardic music come out of Greece and Turkey, followed by Jerusalem and other parts of the Eastern Tradition.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Southern Syria ( or Palestine ), divided between the Vilayets of Syria and Beirut and the Mustafiyyet of Jerusalem, was inhabited predominantly by Arab Muslims, both farmers and Bedouin ( principally in the Negev and Jordan valley ), with smaller numbers of Christians ( mostly Arabs ), Druze, Circassians and Jews ( predominantly Sephardic ).

He was then appointed to the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Appeals in Jerusalem, eventually becoming the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968, a position which he held until his election as Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel in 1973.

In 1979 – Rabbi Nissim Zeev established the grand spiritual and physical enterprise for Sephardic Jewish girls in Jerusalem, the " Nevat Israel " Institutes – ranging from kindergarten, to elementary schools to high schools and to a teaching seminary to train teachers and kindergarten teachers.

As a result of the Jewish influence on the city, many non-Jewish inhabitants of Thessaloniki spoke Judeo Espaniol, the language of the Sephardic Jews, and the city virtually shut down on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, given it sometimes the name of ' Little Jerusalem ".

For the thirty-three synagogues of India, American architect and professor of architecture Jay A. Waronker has learned that these buildings tend to follow the Sephardic traditions of the tevah ( or bimah, the raised platform where the service is led and Torah read ) being freestanding and roughly in the middle of the sanctuary and the ark ( called the hekhal by Sephardim and the aron ha-kodesh by Ashkenazim ) engaged along the wall that is closest to Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Connection is participating in finding these Sephardic Jews and helping them logistically and financially to make Aliya.

The only surviving Romaniote synagogues are in Ioannina and New York, and even these now use a predominantly Sephardic rite: there were formerly Romaniote synagogues in Istanbul and Jerusalem.

He married his first wife Rivka at the age of eighteen, and studied Torah under the Rishon L ’ Tzion ( Sephardic Chief Rabbi ) Yitzchak Kubo and Rabbi Joseph Nissim Burla, the head of the Jerusalem rabbinical court.

There was a Sephardic Jewish community in Anfa up to its destruction by the Portuguese in 1468.

Rema noted that the Shulchan Aruch was based on the Sephardic tradition, and he created a series of glosses to be appended to the text of the Shulkhan Aruch for cases where Sephardi and Ashkenazi customs differed ( based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna ).

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

* The Chief Rabbinate of Israel was founded with the intention of representing all of Judaism within the State of Israel, and has two chief rabbis: One is Ashkenazic ( of the East European and Russian Jewish tradition ) and one is Sephardic ( of the Mediterranean, North African, Central Asian, Middle-Eastern and of Caucasus Jewish tradition.

In the case of Nusach HaAri, however, many of these High Holiday piyyutim are absent: the older piyyutim were not present in the Sephardic rite, on which Nusach HaAri was based, and the followers of the Ari removed the piyyutim composed by the Spanish school.

One group which was instrumental for ensuring the early success of the sugar cane industry were the Sephardic Jews, who originally been expelled from the Iberian peninsula to end up in Dutch Brazil.

* The Snoa in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles was built by Sephardic Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam and Recife, Brazil.

Selânik, which is today known as Thessaloniki and found in modern-day Greece, had a large and flourishing Sephardic community as was the community of Maltese Jews in Malta.

Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El Biar ( Algiers ), French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family originally from Toledo that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship to the indigenous Arabic-speaking Jews of French Algeria.

The Sephardim were more vulnerable targets, and their language was one of the factors leading to such great losses among Sephardic communities.

Sephardic Jews migrated to the city in such numbers that Charleston eventually was home to, by the beginning of the 19th century and until about 1830, the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in North America.

Modigliani's mother ( Eugénie Garsin ) who was born and grew up in Marseille, was descended from an intellectual, scholarly family of Sephardic Jews, generations of whom had resided along the Mediterranean coastline.

He ultimately fled Amsterdam for Hamburg, Germany ( also a prominent Sephardic center ), where he was ostracized from the local Jewish community.

At age 6 he was transferred to the household of David Cohen de Léon, a financier of Sephardic origins who was a friend of Leopold II.

A girls ' school was founded by Jacob Mordecai, a Sephardic Jew, whose son Moses became a prominent lawyer in Raleigh.

His father left when he was two and he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealers, in Stoke Newington.

The first native-born president, as well as the first with a Sephardic background, was Yitzhak Navon.

According to various sources, he was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ; he grew up in Trinidad, the son of an Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father.

Morales was born in the Catalonian town of Lajas, Puerto Rico to parents of Sephardic roots.

The Monteux family was descended from Sephardic Jews who settled in the south of France.

His paternal grandfather was from a Sephardic Jewish family, while his other grandparents were from a Christian English background.

Cixous was born in Oran, French Algeria, to a German Ashkenazi Jewish mother, Eve ( née Klein ), and a French Pied-noir Sephardic Jewish father, Georges Cixous.