Yemenite jews

Israel marks national day of commemoration for Yemenite Jewish aliyah

Education Ministry officials promised that, in addition to creating educational resources, the ministry is “trying to instill in teachers sensitivity to the different ethnic backgrounds."

 Jews from Yemen are seen heading to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.
DANCER ADVA YERMIYAHU will be accompanied by flamenco guitarist Manuel Cazas.

Ofra Haza’s melodies meet Andalusian flamenco in new Jerusalem premiere

A Yemenite synagogue in central Israel was desecrated, and many of the institute's prayer books were shredded, worshippers discovered just before Shabbat came in last week.

Yemenite synagogue in central Israel ransacked, Bibles ripped apart

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009

One of Yemen's last Jewish women makes aliyah to Israel - report


Yemenite Children Affair: Burial site opened after family request, court order

The remains were exhumed early on Tuesday morning, according to the family's lawyers, who demanded in 1997 that 10 other graves be opened.

 A cemetery is seen in Migdal Ha’emek, northern Israel

Israeli committee to examine medical system's role in Yemenite Children Affair

During the first years after the establishment of the State of Israel, hundreds of infants of new olim disappeared.

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

A new look into Yemenite Jewish music with all-woman quintet

The all-woman vocal quintet is taking its last boy at the National Library in Jerusalem on February 1-2.

THE BANAT el Yemen vocal quintet will appear at this week’s Besod Kolot Rabim Festival at the National Library, in Jerusalem

Eyal El Wahab infuses Yemenite authenticity into his music

The group’s next performances are on December 15 as part of the Spectrum Festival in Jerusalem; and on December 31, when they open for Dudu Tassa at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv.

 EL WAHAB plays his ‘saucepan’ instrument alongside Yemenite singer Bracha Cohen at HaMifSfal in Jerusalem.

Grapevine October 23, 2022: A Yemenite festival

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009

Learn about Yemenite Jewish culture at this new Jerusalem exhibit

“You are Beautiful, My Love, ”a new exhibition at the Museum for Islamic Art, offers a glimpse of Yemenite tradition. The exhibition closes on December 31.

 PAINTER ORIT ATKA expresses her Yemenite roots through her art.

Yemeni rebels are helping restore a 160-year old Jewish cemetery

A Yemeni official told Kan that the renovation is a “message to all Aden residents that Aden is a city of peace and that we will not accept any harm to any holy site.”

 PEOPLE SHOP at a market in Taiz, Yemen, just before the two-month nationwide truce took effect, on April 2.

300-year-old rare Yemenite Torah restored, dedicated to Colorado congregation

The Torah is written on deerskin – as compared to the traditional calf or cow skin – and is written in a rare Maimonides Script: a Sephardi script typical of Spanish and African Jews. 

 Rare Yemenite Torah presented at Top of the Mountain in Vail, Colorado.

Pascale’s Kitchen: Yemenite cuisine with Eitan Cabel

Eitan Cabel was generous enough to share with me a few of his favorite recipes, which you’ll find below. I hope you enjoy this foray into Yemenite cuisine as much as I did.

 Yemenite cuisine with Eitan Cabel

Yemenite Children Affair: Second grave to be opened Wednesday

Earlier this year, two graves were found under the headstone of Uziel Khoury, but it wasn't clear if either of the bodies was his.

 The Melamed family stands in front of Yossef's grave before it is opened.