Mizrahi Jews

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Mizrahi Jewish spies fought to build Israel. Their descendants still encounter racism there.

Instead of celebrating our rich Mizrahi Jewish culture, an Israeli writer says, Israeli society has always told us that we ought to be ashamed of it.

This Moroccan doughnut is Israel’s hottest Hanukkah treat

Even European Jews have adopted the sfinj and helped push it toward the limelight.

The Forgotten Yemenite Jewish Exile of 1679

There were about 55,000 Jews living in Yemen in 1948. Today, there are 50. Though the most notorious calamity in Yemenite Jewish history were the riots following the declaration of the state of Israel, nearly 200 years before that, the country’s Jewish community suffered something that most of the world has never heard of: the Mawza […]