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Podcast: New Books in Jewish Studies
Episode: Haim Jachter, "Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews" (Maggid, 2022)
Description: As the rabbi of a Sephardic synagogue for over twenty years who is himself of Ashkenazic descent and trained in Ashkenazic yeshivot, Rabbi Haim Jachter has a unique vantage point from which to observe the differences in customs and halachot between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. In Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews (Maggid, 2022), Rabbi Jachter applies his wide-ranging expertise to explaining an encyclopedic array of divergences between Ashkenazic and Sephardic halachic practice, while also capturing the diversity within different Sephardic communities. Join us as we talk with Rabbi Haim Jachter about his recent book, Bridging Trad...