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 ...

This is what Jewish commentators call Ashkenormativity. The Sephardi/Mizrahi advocacy organization JIMENA (an important partner of the Jewish Language Project) has created a toolkit to help day ...

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

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

Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Spain and Portugal expelled Jewish inhabitants in the late 1400s, sending ...