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Mizrahi Jews

A March 2025 event organized by JIMENA and the Magnes in Berkeley explored and celebrated Mizrahi wedding traditions. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inU.S.

New study breaks ground in understanding America’s Sephardic, Mizrahi Jews

by Sue Fishkoff August 30, 2025August 31, 2025

Most American Jews trace their families back to Eastern Europe and Russia. The history of these Ashkenazi Jews included shtetl life, pogroms and the Holocaust. That is not the history […]

The scene outside La Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, bedecked with Tunisian flags for the annual Lag B'Omer pilgrimage. (Photo/Adam Eilath)
Posted inFirst Person

A broken peace left my family’s heritage trip in shards

Adam Eilath by Adam Eilath May 10, 2024May 10, 2024
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
A scene from "Seven Blessings," Israel's submission to the 2023 Academy Awards.
Posted inFilm

Israel’s Oscar submission is a vibrant story of family, betrayal and forgiveness

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar November 2, 2023November 2, 2023
Art from Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal, published by JIMENA.
Posted inLocal Voice

How JIMENA is supporting Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews right now

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin October 13, 2023October 13, 2023
Tamar Bloch in the Beit Dakira museum, part of a JIMENA-sponsored virtual trip to Morocco.
(Screenshot/JIMENA)
Posted inNews

Newly founded Sephardic Leadership Institute will elevate Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish voices 

by Dan Pine August 10, 2022August 19, 2022
A scene from "Shababnikim," also known as "The New Black." (Photo/Courtesy ChaiFlicks)
Posted inUncategorized

Like ‘Unorthodox’ and ‘Shtisel’? ‘Shababnikim’ offers a fresh, funny new view of Orthodox life.

Karen H. Skinazi by Karen H. Skinazi and JTA February 18, 2022February 24, 2022
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
Black and white: A group of men, women and children sit on the tarmac near an old airplane
Posted inNews

Israel to spend $50M compensating families of children who disappeared in state’s early years

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 25, 2021
A man stands at a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. Jews were historically Iraq's second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdad's population according to a 1917 census, before their exile in 1969. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind.

Carole BasriAdriana Davis by Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and JTA January 28, 2021February 10, 2021

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