(JTA) — A new online campaign highlights the stories of Jewish women who identify as Sephardi, Mizrahi and women of color. The #ShareHerStory campaign, which launched on Tuesday, is tied to ...

But one day it dawned upon Cynthia Shamash, a New York-based dentist, that it was still hard for Mizrahi Jews, or Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, to meet each other. Shamash ...

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 ...

As of 2005, 61 percent of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry. “Mizrahim”, as a term, is perceived as a form of Orientalism, similar to the ways in which Westjuden (Jews from ...

Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politics situated within overlapping Arabic, Islamic and colonial contexts. The authors invite the reader to reconsider contemporary ...