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The Shehebar Sephardic Center (SSC) was started in 1980 by Rabbi Sam Kassin and Rabbi Eliahu Shamoula in the old city of Jerusalem.Rabbi Kassin, a former student of Ner Yisrael and Porat Yoseph obtained his Semicha from Hagaon Ovadia Yoseph and was co-founder of the Sephardic High School before he moved to Israel.

The SSC reaches out to neglected Sephardic communities throughout the Diaspora. By sending out dedicated Rabbis and teachers well versed in all aspects of Torah and community relations, we continue to help save communities from assimilation and cultural extinction. Over the last twenty years the SSC has placed more than eighty Rabbis in diverse locations from Beijing to Shanghai passing by Kowloon, Hong Kong to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and from Barranquilla, Colombia to Adelaide, Australia. More urgent requests for Rabbinical Leadership pour into the SSC everyday. Today as the world map is shifting before our eyes, now more than ever before, we need your support to expand and maintain our vital projects.