Mizrahi

There is no distinction between Jews and Zionists - ask Jews from Arab countries - opinion

Jews from Arab countries, who now comprise over half the Jews of Israel, can hardly be called settler colonialists.

JEWISH OLIM from Yemen near a tent in 1949
Daniel Voloshchuk's handmade Russian project won first-place in the My Family Story competition, exploring the gaps in many Jewish family histories.

Students from 31 countries explore their Jewish roots in ANU competition

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

In her novel ‘Frecha Academait,’ Naomi Shloush confronts the stigmas around the derogatory term ‘frecha’ used for women of Mizrahi heritage.

Naomi Shloush's 'Academic bimbo' confronts Mizrahi identity in modern Israel


Why is the story of the Jewish refugees so little known?

The question of Arab and Islamist anti-Jewish hatred goes to the heart of the conflict with Israel. So why have Jewish refugees been so neglected?

YEMENITE JEWS living in an absorption camp in Israel in 1950

Uprooted

UPROOTED: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight Lyn Julius Vallentine Mitchell 368 pages; $37.95

Yemen Blues to highlight US Sephardi music fest

The festival is being headlined by Renan Koen, a Sephardi classical pianist from Turkey.

Yemen Blues

The art and science of changing tomorrow

Two EMET Prize winners alter the realities of their respective fields.

Sociologist Eva Illouz (Right) and Geneticist Ephrat Levy - Lahad. 2018 Emet prize winners.

Avnery’s legacy

When we hear today about Israel abandoning its democratic traditions or criticism about issues it should all be seen through the lens of Avnery’s critiques of the 1960s.

Uri Avnery at protest

Uprooting of Jews from Arab countries, an answer to modern antisemitism

To be able to reach a peaceful solution, the forced migration of Jews from Arab countries must be acknowledged as one of the tragedies of this long and painful conflict.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

World Mizrachi sending speakers to address 70,000 Jews for Israel’s 70th

The head of the Mizrachi World Movement said that initiative was part of an effort to revitalize religious-Zionism and the Mizrachi movement, which he said have lost their center.

PEOPLE WATCH the Israel Air Force Aerobatic team fly over the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, 2017

Orientalism and the invention of an Ashkenazi identity in Israel

How did “Ashkenazi” in Israel become synonymous with “liberal” and “Left,” and how has being “Ashkenazi” become a marker for being a “victim” of the Israeli Right?

AN ISRAELI flag near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Giving Mizrahim an equal seat at the table

If we want to reach our potential as a Jewish community, we must start to fully include members of our family who have far too often been forgotten.

Rachel Sandler and brother Hertzel Hasson, Mizrahi Jews, give an interview in 2007

The problem of Arab imperialist Jews

As the son of Zionist Iraqi Jewish mother and a North-African Berber father, I am appalled by their distortion of history.

A JEWISH shrine containing the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in the Iraqi town of Kifl, south of Baghdad. The author describes his last Passover in Iraq.