Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries

The path to true reconciliation surely lies in a balanced view of history, where Jewish victims of Arab anti-Semitism are allowed to tell th...

Sixty years have passed since the Egoz (Pisces), a Mossad smuggling boat carrying 42 illegal emigrants from Morocco, capsized. All on bo...

A young Canadian Jew has embarked on a project to clean up Khartoum's Jewish cemetery. Chaim Motzen has set up a...

Once the handsomest synagogue in Tripoli, plans could be afoot to turn the Dar al Bishi synagogue into an Islamic centre. In a  JTA report ...

Following the March 2021 passing of one of Baghdad’s very last Jews, 61-year-old Dr. Dhafer Fouad Eliyahu, BBC Arabic published a piece dra...

The oldest Jew in Egypt has died in Cairo, just short of his 91st birthday.  Albert Arie was born in 1930 into a middle class Jewish famil...

France’s highest court on Wednesday found that the killer of a Jewish woman was not criminally responsible and could not go on trial, provok...

The Nazis occupied Tunisia for six months in 1942. They even imposed the yellow star in the town of Sfax. However, the impact of Nazism o...

Descendants of families murdered in the 1948 riots in the northeastern Moroccan towns of Oujda and Jerada are set to ask the Israeli governm...

Coinciding with Yom Hashoah, the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem has published three out of six photographs in which the wartime Palestinia...

The Holocaust did impact  the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, and it is a near certainty that they would have been targeted for e...

With thanks Eli T, Niran)     A first in Dubai: Rabbi Elie Abadie, head of the Association of Gulf Jewish communities, r ecites a prayer f...

 News has reached Point of No Return of a worrying spate of attacks on Jews on the island of Djerba, Tunisia, one of the last remaining func...

For the first time, Bahrain held a Yom Hashoah commemoration in the synagogue in the capital Manama, led by Huda Nonoo, former Bahrain ambas...

 Tonight is the start of Yom Hashoah,  the Holocaust Memorial Day marked by Israel and Jews around the world on the anniversary of the Warsa...

Rabbi Yahya Youssef went to extraordinary lengths to show loyalty to  Muslim Yemen, but was still expelled by the Houthi Islamists. Lyn Juli...

The writing seemed to have been on the wall - or rather off the wall -  in 2019, when  vandals tore up Zabulon Simantov's posters. He is...

Jews from Egypt were surprised to discover that a newly-opened museum in old Cairo boasts two Torah scrolls  in a display case,  cheek-by-jo...

This year, hard on the heels of the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and Morocco, the Mimouna festival, which marks the end of ...

  Passover is being openly celebrated in Bahrain and in the Gulf countries, where over 100 guests attended a seder in Dubai. Meanwhile, The...

For centuries, Ashkenazi Jews have observed a ban on kitniyot -   eating lentils, peas, beans, rice and other foods at  Passover. The rabbis...

Expelled by the Iranian-backed Houthis,  13 Jews of Yemen departed for Cairo, Egypt, according to the Times of Israel. This leaves just six ...

Tobie Nathan is the author of a dozen novels and numerous psychoanalytic studies. Born to a Jewish family in Cairo in 1948, Nathan had to fl...

Update: The American Sephardi Federation has independently verified the report, and confirms that the Iranian-backed Houthis have indeed ma...

With thanks: Sandra A traditional Iraqi-Jewish seder table (photo: New York Times) As Jewish families the world over sit down to their Passo...

Are we permitted to celebrate Pesah using Zoom ? The question arose last year when the coronavirus pandemic broke, separating families who w...