Mizrahi Jews

Ideas

My Jewish family was forced out of our homeland. We must not let Gazans suffer the same fate.

You don’t counter the fantasy of erasing Israel by proposing the same for Gaza, writes an Israeli influencer whose family was forced to leave Iraq and Tunisia.

Ideas

I’m a Jewish linguist, and unlike some in Congress, I think ‘Ashkenormativity’ is a perfectly fine word

There’s nothing partisan or antisemitic about recognizing obstacles to diversity in Jewish life, writes the director of the Jewish Language Project.

The Sit-Down Ideas

How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

A new history of the 1970s protest movement aims to plug a hole in Israel’s public record.

Obituaries

Stephen Shalom, American Sephardic philanthropist who promoted tolerance, dies at 93

Ideas

Telling the forgotten story of Osnat Barzani, the first female rabbi who lived 400 years ago, is a win for Mizrahi representation

Ideas

We’re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. Here’s how we can stop them from being lost forever.

Culture

Tunisian pumpkin jam is the most underrated Rosh Hashanah treat

Young children, tired of the stifling atmosphere of the synagogue, come outside to be with their mother in Djerba, Tunisia. January 01, 1950. 850,000 refugees from Tunisia and other Arab countries were expelled after the creation of Israel. (Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Israel

Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

Ideas

Jews in Arab countries suffered unbearable discrimination. Why do our stories remain untold?

Ideas

Why does Holocaust Remembrance Day ignore Middle Eastern Jews?

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