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

One-stop blog on Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries and the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees, updated daily

Monday, August 01, 2005

From Tunis to top job

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The new president of the European Jewish Congress is Pierre Besnainou, 50, a Tunisian-born French businessman.(With thanks:Lily) According t...
Sunday, July 31, 2005

A long way from Aden

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The Jerusalem Post of 29 July reported that 40 Jewish women, all in their seventies, recently took part in a school reunion in Tel Aviv. Th...
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Literature award for Sami Michael

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Listing the winners of Israel's prestigious President's Prize for Literature, the Jerusalem Post of 20 July reported that the Israe...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Mind the gap...

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Posting will resume in August.
Monday, July 18, 2005

Iraqis split on rights of Jewish minority

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One month before the deadline for the creation of the new Iraqi constitution, a debate on whether to include Jews as an official minority ha...

Feedback about Jews of Egypt coverage

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The July 2005 issue of Egypt today printed three letters , all from Arab readers, praising Azza Khattab's articles in the May issue abou...
Sunday, July 17, 2005

Cairo synagogue will re-open, thanks to Israeli help

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According to JTA News, the Israeli Embassy in Cairo has agreed to help maintain a synagogue in the Egyptian capital. The 70-year-old Meir E...
Thursday, July 14, 2005

London bomb victim of Iraqi-Jewish origin

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Miriam Hyman, 31, who died on the Number 30 bus in the London bombings of 7th July, was a daughter of Mavis Hyman, who was born in Calcutta ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

My right of return, by a Tunisian Jew

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Jean-Pierre Chemla explodes the taboo about the true nature of relations between Arabs and Jews in North Africa. It is about time we refute...
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Sunday, July 10, 2005

Iraqi Jews: persecution began in 1930s

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In this press interview published on 10 July 2003, lawyer and activist Carole Basri, explains that persecution of the Jews of Iraq began in ...

Eli Amir comes to Cairo

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Haaretz of 7 July reports : (with thanks:Lily) Undercover Egyptian security spread out in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel on Wednesday night t...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Iraqi claims deadline extended

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On 3 July the Iraqi Parliament voted to extend the deadline for submitting property claims, which officially expired on 30 June 2005, for an...

Yemenite Jews show their mettle

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This article, written 18 months ago, spotlights the intimate relationship that the ancient Jewish community of Yemen had with metallurgy, sk...

The Palestinians' latest weapon: Jewish Arabs

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Revealed: the Palestinians' latest weapon in their demographic war against Israel - the Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab countries, who are r...

Arabic Jews or Jewish Arabs?

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A while ago, the popular weblog 'Head Heeb' featured a discussion about the identity of Jews from Arab countries which I am reproduc...
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Monday, July 04, 2005

Great Algerian-Moroccan-Jewish singer dies

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Moroccan pop music lost one of its greatest stars last week when Salim Halali, 80, passed away in relative obscurity in Cannes. Salim Halali...
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Israel 'footdragging' on refugee claims

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According to an article by Isabel Kershner in the Jerusalem Report , international campaigners seeking redress for the Jews who fled Arab co...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

When history is a matter of opinion

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In the summer 2005 issue of the Jewish Quarterly the Oxford philosopher Brian Klug and Professor Robert Wistrich of the Hebrew University d...
Monday, June 27, 2005

The painful memories stirred by Gaza

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The authorities want the Jewish homes of Gaza razed in case leaving them intact stirs some painful memories among those Israelis who were ...

Muslims empathise with Libyan Jew

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The publication by Reuters of Jonathan Saul's article about compensation to the Jews of Libya led to reaction in the Arabic and Liby...
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