Mizrahi

Who does Israel belong to? Why Bennett’s model matters now - opinion

From public policy to bomb shelters, Israel faces a test of unity, fairness, and responsibility that will shape its future as a nation.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
‘A Ma’apilim Ship,’ painting  by Marcel Janco (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem

High Court of Justice strikes down police ID-check procedures due to racial profiling

 Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

Bereaved parents call on Ben-Gurion University to dismiss prof. who called IDF soldiers 'murderers'


Israel's real divide is in the inequality of Arab citizens - opinion

Many believe Israel is divided between Jews and Arabs or politics, but it isn't.

 NEW FRENCH olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2017. The writer asks: ‘How is it legitimate for a Jewish new immigrant who just arrived from Ukraine or France to be more Israeli than a Palestinian Arab citizen who has been living on this land for centuries?’

Taiseer Elias: Israel's integrated musician

When not teaching, Elias, 62, organizes small ensembles, playing music that is very attached to Arab traditions but which is also open to innovations, often of his own creations.

 Taiseer Elias

Nessim Gaon: Swiss financier key to Israel-Egypt peace turns 100

Described by those who’ve known him as charismatic, very few people know about Gaon’s crucial role on the diplomatic front.

 Nessim Gaon greets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as Begin looks on.

I’m a queer Mizrahi Jew who left NY Orthodoxy. This ‘bubby’ took me in - opinion

I went to Bubby Roz’s home to find comfort. I didn’t expect her to open her home to me, but she welcomed me to live with her, like a one-eyed cat receiving warm milk.

 'Bubby and Me'

Israeli education must include Mizrahi history, culture - opinion

While the culture and history of European Jewry is taught and imparted in Israel’s education system, that of Mizrahi Jewry is not.

 CHILDREN put on a presentation at a Jewish school in Benghazi, Libya, in 1944.

Majority of Israelis learned very little on Mizrahi Jewish culture - poll

75% of respondents said they could not recall any program or lesson in school that reinforced a positive perception of Mizrahi Jewry.

 Jewish girls at a school performance in Benghazi, Lybia.

Learning about Middle Eastern and North African Jews can help solve Jewish challenges - opinion

There has been little or no attempt at formalizing a curriculum to educate students of all ages on the heritage and history of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Jews.

Children of a family that immigrated to Israel from Libya in 1950.

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.”

How the Jews who fled Arab countries in 1948 built new lives in Israel

As the new Jewish state was taking root in 1948, an estimated 850,000 Jews living in Arab countries were being expelled or fled their homes in those countries.

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

Sarit Hadad’s coming-out shows how much Israel has changed

Hadad has the most conservative fanbase of all the Israeli entertainers who have opened up about being part of the LGBTQ community so far, indicating that Israeli society has changed for good.

Sarit Hadad at the UN