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A fact from Nessah Synagogue appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 June 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, California was established for Persian Jews in 1980 by the son of former Chief Rabbi of Iran Yedidia Shofet?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nessah Synagogue.

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Is calling it "a Sephardic synagogue" in the lede correct?

The word Sephardic literally means "Spanish", and the article Sephardi Jews agrees that the word traditionally refers to those from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). It later came to mean Jews of the Mediterranean region (southern Europe and north Africa), excluding the Levant (Israel and Lebanon). Calling a Persian synagogue "Sephardic" is stretching it a little. I realize the word is now often used to mean any non-Ashkenazi Jews, but that's not the definition.47.139.40.113 (talk) 22:39, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, per their own website: "Nessah Synagogue... upholds the traditions and customs of Iranian Jews according to Orthodox, Sephardic Halacha." [1]