Mizrachim

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JIMENA
Sapir Taib and Matthew NourielMay 1, 2022
Why are Mizrahi and Sephardic communities being misrepresented as anti-Israel?
Representation is important, but it has to be accurate.
Sapir Taib and Matthew Nouriel
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The Sephardi Perspective
Lyn JuliusMarch 22, 2022
Amnesty’s blinkered anti-Zionism is a recipe for disaster
It is likely that the Jews Paul O’Brien meets are the type who belong to Jewish Voice for Peace, delusional liberals who are willing to trade in Jewish sovereignty for his “core Jewish values.”
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New survey reveals Israel’s Mizrachim Jewish majority overlooked by school textbooks
Judy Lash BalintJanuary 28, 2022
Iraqi-British Jewish businessman David A. Dangoor said Israel would benefit from incorporating the Eastern viewpoint in cultural and political spheres: “Israel is in a wonderful position of having two cultures. It’s not just a matter of rights and fairness; it’s a matter of richness and fertility of ideas.”
Second Grade students at the Nofei HaSela school on the first day back at school after the Summer holidays, in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash9
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CAMERA
Chloe GreenfieldJune 23, 2021
The push to ‘other’ the identities of Israeli Jews
Anti-Semitic groups on college campuses level accusations that Israel is some kind of white, colonialist endeavor, neglecting the fact that the country is primarily composed of people of color.
Chloe Greenfield
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Israeli Cabinet approves proposal to recognize, compensate for Yemenite ‘children affair’
February 23, 2021
“This is among the most painful affairs in the history of the State of Israel,” says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yemenite immigrants being greeted by Jewish Agency representatives at Israel's Lod Airport in 1949. Credit: National Photo Collection/Government Press Office.
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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 21, 2020
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Attempts to draw analogies between Trump voters and the Israeli right fail to understand Jews who trace their origins to the Muslim world and illustrate the left’s contempt for “deplorables.”
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Jewish, pro-Israel groups react to Morocco agreeing to normalize ties with Israel
Jackson RichmanDecember 10, 2020
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said “instead of a cold détente attained via surrender to unreasonable demands, these new agreements promote peace based upon common security needs and mutual medical, technological and financial benefits.”
Beth-El Synagogue in Casablanca in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Transforming trauma: How Jewish voices from Iran and Arab lands can be a bridge for peace
Israel KasnettDecember 3, 2020
In marking the expulsion of 850,000 Middle East and North African Jews, and in the backdrop of the recent Abraham Accords, a common thread among speakers was that Mizrahi Jews can play a particular role in furthering Israel’s relationship with Arab and Muslim countries.
Jewish refugees at a Ma’abarot transit camp in Israel, 1950. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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‘Mizrahi stories’ highlight newest campus campaign by CAMERA
Eliana RudeeNovember 27, 2020
“Jews come in many shapes and colors, whether they look European, Middle Eastern, black, etc. This campaign can help people understand this concept of the diversity of Jews,” says Eden Abraham Bouskila, 19, a CAMERA Fellow at UC Davis in California.
A group of Iraqi Jews who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine following the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad. Credit: Moshe Baruch via Wikimedia Commons.
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Facts & Logic About the Middle East (FLAME)
James SinkinsonFLAMENovember 24, 2020
When will Jewish refugees from Arab nations get the justice they deserve?
Their pain and suffering must not be forgotten, and redress must be demanded and granted.
James Sinkinson
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The Sephardi Perspective
David A. DangoorNovember 15, 2020
The Kaddish Initiative for global Jewish unity and solidarity
Synagogues and other Jewish institutions will be saying “Kaddish” and “Azkara” on the closest Shabbat to the Day of Commemoration on Nov. 28 for Jews from the Middle East and North Africa.
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JEWISH MINORITY VOICES: Bukharians
Ruben Shimonov is working to tell the ‘broader story of Mizrahim’
Eliana RudeeOctober 9, 2020
“We didn’t learn about the broader region where I’m from in Jewish day school,” said the Tashkent native. “I didn’t hear about the Central Asian/Bukharian Jewish community and adjacent communities in the media, nor in my Jewish studies or Near Eastern studies classes at the University of Washington.”
Ruben Shimonov speaking at an event for the American Sephardi Federation in 2018. Source: American Sephardi Federation via Facebook.
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Exhibit at Museum for Islamic Art features Jewish jewelers from the Arab world
Eliana RudeeJune 17, 2019
The fact that Jews and Muslims used shared symbols in their work exists until today, as seen in the “hamsah,” an element against the evil eye.
An exhibit featuring Jewish jewelry from the Islamic world. Credit: Museum for Islamic Art.
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