My Jewish identity can never truly be questioned, even if others don’t think I look the part, a college student writes. My freshman year in college, I met a woman who identified as a Mizrahi Jew.

After decades of withholding statistics on socioeconomic differences between Jews of Ashkenazi or European origins, and those of Mizrahi or North Africa and Middle Eastern origin, Israel’s ...

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Zeeva Bukai wrote The Anatomy of Exile from the perspective of a familiar literary figure: the anxious Jewish mother. But in this novel about a Mizrahi Israeli family moving to America ...

Watching Sallah Shabati at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at the Lawrence Familiy JCC -- accompanied by ...

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 ...