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Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau and Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a ceremony selling chametz ahead of Passover in Jerusalem, April 4, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Oct. 7 memorial for Jews of color ‘missed opportunity’ for unity, says American Sephardi...

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A group that describes itself as “unabashedly progressive” is defending its decision to hold an Oct. 7 memorial for “Sephardic, Mizrachi and all Jews of color,” after the event drew criticism from the American...
Palestinians outside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

The distorted ‘nakba’ narrative

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Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is an angry man. Chikli, who has a history of being outspoken, has lately turned his sights on the German government. He has complained about inappropriate comparisons between the...
Second Grade students at the Nofei HaSela school on the first day back at school after the Summer holidays, in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash9

New survey reveals Israel’s Mizrachim Jewish majority overlooked by school textbooks

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The majority of Jews in contemporary Israel are descendants of Jews who were expelled or fled from countries under Muslim rule between 1948 and 1967. Generally referred to as Mizrachim (from the East), they include...