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Gabriel Senderowicz

Oporto’s Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue. Credit: CIP/CJP/Bizarro.

An open letter to the UN Secretary-General from the Portuguese Jewish community

A handful of antisemites have succeeded in persecuting and defaming an entire community and its leadership.

Gabriel Senderowicz

January 29, 2023

Kadoorie Synagogue in Oporto, Portugal. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Jewish community of Oporto’s criteria for Sephardic certification over a seven-year period

The first step of the Oporto Rabbinate, recognized by the Grand Rabbinate of Israel, was to decide in accordance with halachah—the only consensual criterion in the Jewish world—as to who is Jewish.

Gabriel Senderowicz

April 4, 2022

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