As an Iranian Jewish American ... but today it remains a beloved tradition among many Mizrahi families (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa). Each sign is accompanied by a blessing that ...

Likewise, my friend who joined me for this performance is of Iranian Jewish descent, and has been researching into her heritage of late. Mizrahi stories are so often overlooked, and this felt like ...

Descriptions of Jewish life often divide communities up into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews ... to the Iberian Peninsula: from Persian Jews and Kurdish Jews to Bukharan ...

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 ...