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

The body of Israel’s most celebrated spy, Eli Cohen, may be exhumed and returned from Syria under a deal mediated by Russia, The Times repor...

Land around the Naavi, the shrine of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan, Iran, was traditionally used as a Jewish cemetery. In recent years the...

The triangular Hamantaschen, or Haman's ears, have become the universal cookie for Purim. But they were unknown in Tunisia, where the ...

The Association of Gulf Communities got off to a flying start with a Zoom event for Purim on the evening of 25 February. The association is ...

Tonight begins the festival of Purim. Youssef Setareh-Shenas hopes that, by tomorrow night, he will have a virtual tour of the tomb of Esth...

The New York Times  has published an article, “ Tomb of Joshua, Revered Prophet, Beckons Believers in Baghdad,” on the purported Iraqi holy...

In an effort to gain closure for the Yemenite Children Affair,  the Israeli government has approved a plan to compensate some 1,000 families...

Tributes to Shlomo Hillel, the architect of the Iraqi 'aliya' have appeared in The New York Times (the identical piece is in the Ir...

 Israeli Jews with roots in Arab countries are up in arms that a six-part  TV documentary series, 'Lebanon', did not mention the tra...

For eight years in the 16th century, the Moroccan town of Fez had a Hebrew printing press until it was forced to close down due to a Spanish...

They were the Walt Disney of Egypt: the three Frenkel brothers introduced the popular cartoon character of MishMish Effendi to an Egyptian c...

With thanks: Henry  One of the most promising initatives to come out of the Abraham Accords has been the founding of Sharaka , the Gulf-Is...

 In contrast to the picture of age-old harmony projected by today's regime in Morocco, western newspapers in the 19th century describe h...

Apostasy from Islam seems all the rage, as a popular singer in Kuwait declares her intention to convert to Judaism She is following another ...

J ews in six Gulf states have formed a new association to coordinate their religious needs. Seth Frantzman reports in the Jerusalem Post: Ho...

The Algerian war of independence was a brutal six-year conflict between the French army, local paramilitaries and the FLN independence fight...

With thanks: Duncan Further to our post reporting that French historians like Georges Bensoussan and Michel Abitbol have debunked the myth t...

This is the amazing story, told by Ruth Corman in her blog, of how Amnon Damti, born profoundly the deaf son of Yemenite parents, became ...

  Did the wartime sultan of Morocco protect the Jews? For some years now historians have been gnawing away at the myth that the sultan preve...

Tributes have been pouring in to Shlomo Hillel, who passed away on 8 February 2021 aged 97. Hillel was one of the main drivers behind the a...