After decades of withholding statistics on socioeconomic differences between Jews of Ashkenazi or European origins, and those of Mizrahi or North Africa and Middle Eastern origin, Israel’s ...

For centuries, Mizrahi Jews had enjoyed high status in their countries of origin in the Middle East and North Africa, which ranged from Iraq to Egypt to Morocco. But when they landed in Israel ...

Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politics situated within overlapping Arabic, Islamic and colonial contexts. The authors invite the reader to reconsider contemporary ...

Arab-initiated violence also saw the creation of a second group of refugees — Arabs whose families had moved to Palestine ...

The novelist speaks about his new book on the Middle East, ‘The World After Gaza’, and connecting the dots between our ...

Re the Nov. 29 opinion article “Sephardi, Mizrahi Jews part of the refugee equation,” by Lior Haiat and Henry Green: As a native of Morocco, I believe an asterisk should be included addressing ...

Kurdish Jews, and “Musta’arabin” (Arabized) or Mizrahi Jews, whose families never left the Levant. Of these, the Jews of Aleppo and Qamishli have departed in their entirety. The seven or ...

In the first few decades of Israel’s existence, Hillel was one of the few Mizrahi Jews who climbed the ranks of Israel’s ruling party and become a cabinet member. In Golda Meir’s government ...

And many of the Western protagonists of imperialism "discovered" real or imaginary Jews wherever their expeditions took them. Today orientalist attitudes by Israelis target not only Arabs but also the ...