Ashkenazi

Hinenu at 10 million: 100 lives that tell Israel’s real story

As Israel reaches 10 million citizens amid war, one photographer captures 100 lives that reveal a quieter, more human story.

Ortal Pelleg connected to the author through surfing.
Extreme right-wing activists block car of former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, January 28, 2026.

Protests, courts, and control: Israel’s struggle for power and moral high ground - opinion

Meat.

Passador in Tel Aviv: A meat lover’s paradise - restaurant review

 INTERIOR OF Amsterdam’s Sephardi synagogue, the Esnoga, by Romeyn de Hooghe, 1695.

Hacham Zvi Ashkenazi: Anomaly of a religious scholar


Ukrainian-style Passover Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Make some in solidarity with the Jews who were forced to flee their homes during this year’s Russia-Ukraine war.

 Stuffed cabbage is popular in Ukraine and is known as holubtsi, which literally translates as "little pigeons".

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.

Pascale's Kitchen: Not just gefilte fish

These dishes were adapted to the kosher Ashkenazi kitchen, with recipes that were passed down from one generation to the next – just as was done with recipes in Sephardi communities. 

 Challah and cholent.

Baba Sali's hilula: Greatly subdued due to COVID-19

The Baba Sali’s white-domed neo-Moorish mausoleum, located in a park and palm forest developed by the Jewish National Fund, is a magnet for some 800,000 visitors annually.

ATTENDING THE hilula of the Baba Sali at his tomb complex in Netivot, January 6.

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.”

Victoria to be first Australian state to prohibit Nazi symbols

Legislation to prohibit hateful symbols is expected to be passed in early 2022. 

Antisemitic graffiti on an Australian Jewish cafe (illustrative)

Breakthrough treatment for Tay-Sachs shows positive results, study finds

Tay-Sachs is an inherited disorder that is almost always fatal and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews. Currently, there is no viable medical treatment available.

Pills

Saying Ashkenazim are elitist won’t change status of Mizrahim - opinion

The truth is that in the past, and perhaps even today, many Ashkenazim also viewed the Mizrahim as a collective – an inferior collective.

 A SECURITY GAURD prepares to remove MK Galit Distal Atbaryan from the Knesset earlier this month.

Ashkenazi heads to Cairo as Egypt pushes for permanent ceasefire with Gaza

Israel is expected to tell the Egyptians that any agreement should include the return of the bodies of two soldiers believed killed in the 2014 Gaza war.

Israel's new Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi

Letters to the Editor April 5, 2021: (Taylor) Forcing the issue

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say

Letters