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Mizrahi Jews

Preparing for a Yemenite Jewish wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Punam Bean)
Posted inLocal Voice

Mizrahi Jews needed to balance ethnic studies curriculum

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin August 24, 2020
Iraqi Jews at the tomb of Ezekiel in Kifl, Iraq, in 1932. (Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection/Library of Congress)
Posted inUncategorized

Calling it ‘anti-Semitism’ is itself a form of racism

Loolwa Khazzoom by Loolwa Khazzoom January 7, 2020January 7, 2020
Rabbi Tsipi Gabai is the leader of Congregation Zohar Yisrael, which held its monthly Friday night service in Berkeley, Nov. 8, 2019. (Courtesy Gabai)
Posted inColumns

I was in a strange, new world: Egalitarian Sephardi Shabbat

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
black and white photo of two adult men, three adult women, and two young boys trekking through the desert
Posted inLocal Voice

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews deserve to be counted

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin September 17, 2019September 16, 2019
Posted inOff the Shelf

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

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 25, 2019June 26, 2019
19th Century Libyan Jews
Posted inNews

JIMENA and Israel ramp up Mizrachi and Sephardic oral history project

by J. Staff July 31, 2018August 7, 2018
Unrestored 1930 Passover Haggadah from Vienna is part of the Iraqi Jewish Archive (Photo/National Archives)
Posted inBay Area

JIMENA presses U.S. to withhold return of Jewish archive to Iraq

by Rob Gloster and JTA July 24, 2018
Tamar Zaken
Posted inNews

Playing the name game at new Sephardi course in S.F.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 20, 2018February 20, 2018
A Yemenite family travels to a camp set up by the Joint Distribution Committee near Aden, Yemen, Jan. 1949. (Photo/Israeli National Photo Archive)
Posted inOpinion

Did you know November is Mizrachi Heritage Month?

Tamar Zaken by Tamar Zaken November 27, 2017November 27, 2017
High school student Jack Resnick on his semester in Israel (Photo/Courtesy of Jack Resnick)
Posted inUncategorized, Youth Voice

A wild Mizrahi service in Jerusalem opened my Jewish book

Jack Resnick by Jack Resnick January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

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