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Arab Jews

An ornately embroidered bag with a handle and some red Hebrew text
Posted inJudaica

Magnes exhibit on Jewish lives in Muslim lands: ‘What the world needs right now’

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

A Moroccan ketubah featuring a Moorish arch outlining the document’s Hebrew and Aramaic text. An Iranian seder plate with a Passover celebration engraved against a backdrop of buildings that include […]

Superimposed over a map of Syria are photos of, top left, the author's sitaw (grandmother) Lily on the right, with her brother Sam and his wife and her younger sister in Lily's Brooklyn apartment in 1954. Center, Israelis demonstrate against the persecution of Jews in Syria and Iraq, 1953. At right, officials of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, early 20th century. (Photos/JTA-Courtesy; National Library of Israel; Wikipedia)
Posted inOpinion

Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse

Lisa Sayegh by Lisa Sayegh May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
Zabulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2009. (Photo/JTA-Paula Bronstein-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

The last known Jew in Afghanistan is leaving

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 5, 2021
Rabbi Youssef Moussa (left) and his brother Salem sit in an apartment in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 10, 2009, after fleeing conflict in the northern part of the country. (Photo/JTA-Marwan Naamani-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized, World

Yemen’s Jewish population, once over 50,000, drops to below 10

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 1, 2021
Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal.
Posted inCulture

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 15, 2021March 15, 2021
A choir in a synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1960s. (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inWorld

Egypt introduces Judaism into its school curriculum

David Ian Klein by David Ian Klein and Forward March 11, 2021
Ebrahim Nonoo’s family in Bahrain in the 1950s. (Photo/Courtesy Nonoo)
Posted inWorld

Jews have lived in Bahrain for 140 years. The country’s peace deal with Israel changes their lives.

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA September 21, 2020September 21, 2020
The desert at sunset in Rissani, Morocco. (SUE BARNETT)
Posted inTravel

After mass exodus, Morocco celebrates its Jewish heritage

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 6, 2020March 6, 2020
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Arab Jews, Latino Jews and other complicated identities

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 25, 2019June 26, 2019

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