Ashkenazi

The irony behind telling Jews to 'go back where they belong' - opinion

Efforts to rewrite Jewish history cannot erase the ancient bond between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.

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NHS to make Jewish BRCA genetic testing program permanent after successful pilot

 Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Israel’s unholy alliance between religion and politics must end - opinion

Playwright Art Feinglass ahead of the premiere of his new play, Jacob's Stepladder

New comedy-drama Jacob’s Stepladder to premiere at Jerusalem’s Khan Theater


Pascale's Kitchen: Not just gefilte fish

These dishes were adapted to the kosher Ashkenazi kitchen, with recipes that were passed down from one generation to the next – just as was done with recipes in Sephardi communities. 

 Challah and cholent.

Baba Sali's hilula: Greatly subdued due to COVID-19

The Baba Sali’s white-domed neo-Moorish mausoleum, located in a park and palm forest developed by the Jewish National Fund, is a magnet for some 800,000 visitors annually.

ATTENDING THE hilula of the Baba Sali at his tomb complex in Netivot, January 6.

Jews are not white: Race and identity in Israel and the US - Opinion

If Israeli Jews are white, then who are the people of color that these “white Jews” must be oppressing through their white supremacy? The Palestinians, of course.

 To be white these days “is a kind of slander.”

Victoria to be first Australian state to prohibit Nazi symbols

Legislation to prohibit hateful symbols is expected to be passed in early 2022. 

Antisemitic graffiti on an Australian Jewish cafe (illustrative)

Breakthrough treatment for Tay-Sachs shows positive results, study finds

Tay-Sachs is an inherited disorder that is almost always fatal and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews. Currently, there is no viable medical treatment available.

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Saying Ashkenazim are elitist won’t change status of Mizrahim - opinion

The truth is that in the past, and perhaps even today, many Ashkenazim also viewed the Mizrahim as a collective – an inferior collective.

 A SECURITY GAURD prepares to remove MK Galit Distal Atbaryan from the Knesset earlier this month.

Ashkenazi heads to Cairo as Egypt pushes for permanent ceasefire with Gaza

Israel is expected to tell the Egyptians that any agreement should include the return of the bodies of two soldiers believed killed in the 2014 Gaza war.

Israel's new Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi

Letters to the Editor April 5, 2021: (Taylor) Forcing the issue

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say

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‘Who are we?’: Asian American Jews explore their identities in new series

The series is the brainchild of two recent college students who found themselves craving a way to get to know other people whose identities overlapped with their own.

The Lunar project brought over 20 Asian American Jews together in conversation.

Ex-Israeli envoy reveals large number of Ashkenazi Jews lived in Cairo

"Cairo was like a railway terminal, Jews coming and going," ambassador Rosen said.

Moshe Der'i Synagogue in Cairo