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The Jewish world’s dangerous amnesia about Mizrahi history

Our history under Islamic rule exposes the moral bankruptcy of anti-Zionism and the fantasy that Jews can survive without sovereignty ...
(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.
Not so fast. A new special from Raanan Hershberg shows how charged times can make for funnier jokes involving anxiety over ...
PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how ...
Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hanukkah demands fewer religious rituals than most other Jewish observances. Golden Pixels LLC When I was growing up in suburban ...
Rye bread, sour milk, and maybe some herring — for a poor Jew, these were the makings of a meal. The Jews I have in mind were ...
John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...
There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish ...
Today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I reflect not just on the horrors of the past, but on a chilling echo in our present.
For over 3,000 years, Jews have oriented their faith, culture, and identity toward Jerusalem. “Next year in Jerusalem” is not a metaphor but it is a declaration of continuity. Zionism did not begin in ...