Mizrahi Jews

Shas party skips Knesset vote over political appointee’s slurs

Rami Sadan, who reportedly is close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has denied making the derogatory remarks against Mizrahi Israelis.

Move Over, Cairo. The Afghan Geniza Will Blow Your Mind.

First there was the discovery of the Cairo Geniza. And now there’s this. In 2011, a report by Israel’s Channel 2 News told of how foxes scratching in the dirt somewhere in the Afghan province of Samangan revealed a hidden cave. Inside the cave, local villagers found Jewish documents nearly 1,000 years old. These […]

The Yemeni Sisters Whose Video is Sweeping Across Israel and the Muslim World

The Israeli Band Carrying the Torch for Yemen’s Last Jews

The recent airlift evacuation of 19 Yemenite Jews to Israel made international news — now, there are only 50 Jews remaining in the Middle Eastern country. The 2000-year-old Jewish community in Yemen seems a hair’s breadth from its end. But meanwhile, some forward-thinking descendants of this community are bringing their culture and music to concert halls and […]

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Mizrahi Jews

Shas party skips Knesset vote over political appointee’s slurs

Move Over, Cairo. The Afghan Geniza Will Blow Your Mind.

The Israeli Band Carrying the Torch for Yemen’s Last Jews

The Medieval Scholar Who Made Arabic the Language of the Jews

Remixing Iraqi Jewish Music

Israel’s Iraqi, Moroccan and Algerian Jews who survived WWII to get Holocaust payments

The Man Bringing Hardboiled Mystery Novels to Israel

Meet Soulika, Morocco’s Jewish Joan of Arc

Ayelet Tsabari’s award-winning stories reflect Yemenite background, global outlook

Meet Victoria Hanna, The Israeli Hip-Hop Artist Who’ll Blow Your Mind

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