• Before the declaration of independence of the State of Israel in 1948, the various now-Mizrahi Jewish communities did not identify themselves as a distinctive Jewish subgroup, and instead many characterized themselves as Sephardi Jews as they largely followed the Sephardic customs and traditions of Judaism (with some differences in minhagim between particular communities). (wikipedia.org)
  • Following the First Arab-Israeli War, over 850,000 Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews were expelled or evacuated from Arab and Muslim-majority countries from 1948 until the early 1980s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although the Sephardi community is the oldest Jewish community in Britain, having been established nearly half a century prior to the first Ashkanazi congregation, Sephardi Jews form only a small percentage of British Jewry. (jewishgen.org)
  • I learned about false historical narratives that infantilize and minimize the role of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews in Zionist history, as well as Israel's continued colorism against that community. (jta.org)
  • better source needed] These various Jewish communities were first officially grouped into a singular identifiable division during World War II, when they were distinctly outlined in the One Million Plan of the Jewish Agency for Israel, which detailed the methods by which Jews in diaspora were to be returned to the Land of Israel (then under the British Mandate of Palestine) after the Holocaust. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mizrahi also includes Jewish communities from Central Asia and the Caucasus such as the Persian Jews, Afghan Jews, Bukharan Jews from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and the Mountain Jews from Dagestan and Azerbaijan. (wikipedia.org)
  • As of 2005[update], 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi/Sephardi ancestry, while in a 2015-2016 study 45% of Jewish Israelis identified as such. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1950s, the Jews who came from the communities listed above were simply called and known as Jews (Yahud in Arabic) and to distinguish them in the Jewish sub-ethnicities, Israeli officials, who themselves were mostly Eastern European Jews, transferred the name to them, though most of these immigrants arrived from lands located further westward than Central Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • The category of 'Mizrahi,' for example, emerged in Israel throughout the 20th century to refer to Jewish immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • The Sephardic Jewish American Research Study will explore the ways in which self-identified Sephardic and Mizrahi American Jews describe what these categories mean to them. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • This event is supported by JFREJ's Mizrahi & Sephardi caucus, IfNotNow-BIJOCSM, and Jewish Voice for Peace's BIJOCSM Network. (jfrej.org)
  • Hen writes with pain about the fact that there are no American Jewish organizations that are led by Mizrahi Jews. (religionnews.com)
  • Palestinian leaders have spoken about the importance of Mizrahi Jewish leadership. (rc.org)
  • Friday nights, ironically the start of the Jewish Sabbath, became a highly-anticipated time for families of all backgrounds -- Mizrahi, Palestinian, and Ashkenazi -- to gather and watch movies together. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Lina Morales is a member of the Jews of Color and Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • In a recent op-ed for Al Jazeera, one commentator referred to the Jews who fled Europe for Israel after the Holocaust as "colonizers and conquerors," contrasting Arab indigeneity with Jewish foreignness. (thecrimson.com)
  • Decades before the Balfour Declaration signaled the prospect of a Jewish state, Jews tired of systematic persecution in Europe and the Arabian Peninsula began to migrate back to the Levant. (thecrimson.com)
  • She is Jewish, but because her father is Syrian, she is a 'mizrahi', an Arab Jew. (havanatimes.org)
  • The single Native Jew mentioned is a Zionist, even though Jewish Natives (like non-Jewish Natives) lean anti-Zionist. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • I found JB Brager's recent comic interesting and engaging, but I'm frustrated by the discussion of this issue as a simplistic binary: either Jews are Indigenous to Palestine and are therefore entitled to a Jewish state while Palestinians have no such right, or Jewish claims of indigeneity to Palestine are entirely invalid. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • On the contrary, it is the persistence of Jewish attachment to Eretz Yisrael over two millenia of galut [exile] that makes it all the more galling that many Jews can't recognize the same attachment among Palestinians, as Peter Beinart has pointed out in his essay " Teshuvah: A Jewish case for Palestinian Refugee Return . (jewishcurrents.org)
  • In my organizing with Jews on Ohlone Land and in my studies of Jewish relationships with Indigenous people, I've circled around similar topics. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • His multilayered identity as an immigrant, Bukharian, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-speaking Jew continuously informs his commitment to the cultural and global diversity of the Jewish people. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • Ruben has previously brought this passion to his work at Queens College Hillel as Director of Cross-Community Engagement and Education, where he had the unique role of cultivating Sephardic-Mizrahi Jewish student life on campus. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • But in Israel's obsession with engineering and maintaining a Jewish demographic majority--in a land where Jews were a tiny minority until very recently in modern history--the country has shirked its responsibilities under international law with regard to refugees. (tari.org)
  • Braude's talk, which was sponsored by JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa), highlighted the little known story of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. (stanfordreview.org)
  • In the 1940s, the population of Baghdad was 40% Jewish, and currently, less than ten Jews reside in all of Iraq. (stanfordreview.org)
  • I've often said the most Jewish thing a Jew can do is to become Catholic. (secondexodus.com)
  • Israel needs to be a Jewish democracy with a majority of Jews. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Who are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews? (sephardicstudy.org)
  • How do we define Sephardic and Mizrahi? (sephardicstudy.org)
  • The categories of Sephardic and Mizrahi are broad umbrella terms that include many populations. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • More recently, the categories of 'Sephardic' and 'Mizrahi' are increasingly used as pan-ethnic identities of non-Ashkenazi Jews around the globe. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • For this research project, we privilege self-identification and include in our purview of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews those Jews who self-identify as such. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • While existing literature helps us explore how these categories have been used, there is little research to aid us in knowing how self-identified 'Sephardic' and 'Mizrahi' Jews understand these categories in the contemporary United States. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • We aim to formulate a more precise and data-driven working definition of 'Sephardic' and 'Mizrahi' based on these findings. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • Self-identified Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews have diverse backgrounds, skin color, and national origins. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • Because of this and due to all we know about the extensive diversity of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, we treat these categories independently from each other. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • In the course of our research we seek to gather more data as to how Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews identify in terms of American racial and ethnic identification. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • With similar pain: that there is Yom Ha Shoah, where our memory is mostly Ashkenazic, though Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews also perished. (religionnews.com)
  • Perhaps the most controversial ad was one broadcast by Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party whose support mainly comes from Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. (aljazeera.com)
  • The cultures and histories of Bukharian, Georgian, and Kavkazi (Mountain) Jews are situated at the fascinating, yet lesser known, intersection of RSJ, Sephardic and Mizrahi life. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • Ruben is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sephardic-Mizrahi Q Networka one-of-a-kind, grassroots movement that works to build a vibrant and supportive community for LGBTQ Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • 52% of Israelis are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, most coming from Arab countries. (tari.org)
  • This is part of the racism they must discharge in order to be effective allies to Jews and Palestinians. (rc.org)
  • Recently several attempts have been made to create alliances between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians. (rc.org)
  • Chiefly, he championed the rights of Mizrahi Jews, but his solidarity extended far beyond that - to Palestinians, Vietnamese, black South Africans, and others. (972mag.com)
  • We are often asked to prove our loyalty to either the Palestinians or the Jews by denouncing the other side. (havanatimes.org)
  • Musalaha consists of Christian Palestinians and messianic Jews. (havanatimes.org)
  • Why can't Israeli Jews and Palestinians both legitimately claim Indigenous status in Israel/Palestine? (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Rather than being a zero-sum contest about which people is the real Indigenous one, perhaps a shared, mutually recognized sense of indigeneity could lead Israeli Jews and Palestinians to sharing the land as equals. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • A Land With a People also helps in understanding that the existential struggle against a racist, settler-colonial system, can, and must, be undertaken by Palestinians and Jews together. (citylights.com)
  • The representation and advancement of Mizrahi Jews in every facet of Israeli society attests to their resilience, Israel's inclination to integrate various peoples, and the efficacy of cultural immersion. (stanfordreview.org)
  • Since Mizrahi-Sephardic Jews make up 50% of Israel's population, JIMENA gives special emphasis to the histories and current realities of this central demographic group within Israel. (stanfordreview.org)
  • Those are the Sephardim, but more accurately, they are the Mizrahim, the so-called eastern Jews who come from Arab lands - who today constitute more than fifty percent of Israeli Jews. (religionnews.com)
  • To this author, Gadot and her cohort of Israeli Jews are no different from white European imperialists, overseeing the "destruction of the indigenous society. (thecrimson.com)
  • Beneath the doctrinal language lies the same colonial charge: Israeli Jews are the new conquistadores. (thecrimson.com)
  • Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz said the decision to incorporate the study of Mizrahi Jews during the Holocaust into the mandatory curriculum is a moral one, meant to create a common denominator among the students. (ynetnews.com)
  • The introduction of the Holocaust of Mizrahi Jews into the mandatory history curriculum is an obvious and ethical decision in order to show the full picture of World War II. (ynetnews.com)
  • The Mizrahi victims of the Holocaust have been erased twice-once from the earth and then from our collective memory. (religionnews.com)
  • He has also served as the Chairman of the Israeli Committee for Ethiopian Jews. (indybay.org)
  • He writes about the persecution of Mizrahi Jews at the hands of the Israeli Ashkenazic establishment, its old political elite that created the state - some of it cruel, some of it subtle, all of it lasting and hurtful. (religionnews.com)
  • It relays the transformational journeys of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, queer, and Palestinian Jews who have come to reject the received Zionist narrative. (citylights.com)
  • Benjamin is one of the signatories to the manifesto "Ruh Jedida: A New Spirit for 2011", recently written by young Arab Jews to express their solidarity with the young demonstrators on the streets in the Arab world. (havanatimes.org)
  • They recognize their problems, the Arab Jews wrote: "We, too, live in a regime that tramples the economic and social rights of most of its citizens (…) and constructs racist barriers against Arab-Jews, the Arab people, and Arabic culture. (havanatimes.org)
  • One of the leading organizations promoting the rights of Arab Jews even calls itself "Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. (tari.org)
  • Mr. Braude expressed how grave circumstance led to the migration of Arab Jews from Arab lands after the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. (stanfordreview.org)
  • At a panel in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man looked askance at our group and stated that he bears no hatred for Jews. (jta.org)
  • Approximately 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced to flee from the Middle East and North Africa. (stanfordreview.org)
  • Though anyone can perpetuate racism regardless of their race, in this case it seems inappropriate to have those representing these claims be Mizrahi Jews, who have a much more complicated history with the land of Palestine than Ashkenazi Jews. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Ashkenazi Jews come from Germany and Northern France. (secondexodus.com)
  • By contrast, the Mizrahi Jews quoted are not referred to as "of Mizrahi descent. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Almog Behar is an Israeli Mizrahi (Jew of Arab descent), award winning writer and poet. (boulderjewishnews.org)
  • The pro-overhaul crowd Thursday was overwhelmingly religious, many of them working class Jews of Mizrahi, or Middle Eastern, descent. (counton2.com)
  • Pointing to comments made by Hen Mazzig and Rudy Rochman, two Mizrahi Jews, can be experienced as racist, leaving much out of the conversation around identity. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • For instance, the circumstances of North African occupation by the Nazis and its purpose as well as the German policy towards Tunisia and Libyan Jews. (ynetnews.com)
  • The fate of Jews living in North Africa under Nazi occupation will be a mandatory chapter in the history matriculation exam in Israeli schools starting in the next school year. (ynetnews.com)
  • From the Arab invasion of North Africa to the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Jews were treated as dhimmis. (mizrahistories.com)
  • We Mizrahi Jews are from north Africa and from west, central, and south Asia. (rc.org)
  • Mizrahi Jews are Jews who have always lived in the Middle East, including Arab or Muslim lands, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of the Caucasus. (secondexodus.com)
  • Mizrahi is a political sociological term that was coined with the creation of the State of Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Per a decree by the authority of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, any rabbis of Mizrahi origin in Israel are under the jurisdiction of the order of Sephardi chief rabbis. (wikipedia.org)
  • After Algerian independence in 1962, most Jews moved to France, while approximately 20,000 chose to immigrate to Israel instead. (mizrahistories.com)
  • These were Mizrachi Jews, and they were there to tell us about the social gap in Israel. (religionnews.com)
  • Smadar Lavie's soon-to-be-published book Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture is a personally inspired account that stems from her own life as a single mother in Israel. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • In this interview, Bizawe talks to Alex Shams of Ajam Media Collective about how the documentary came about, his experiences growing up Egyptian in Israel during the 1970s, and the complexities of Mizrahi politics and anti-Arab racism in the country today. (jadaliyya.com)
  • There is no doubt that respecting refugees' rights would lead to the return of some individuals to their ancestral homeland (not all refugees wish to return), and would ultimately transform Israel into a state that treats Jews and non-Jews as equals. (tari.org)
  • The conversations I witnessed in person and even on social media were dominated by Americans - often non-Jews - who are very opinionated about Israel in regard to what it meant for the United States. (jta.org)
  • Mizrahi is subsequently among the surnames most often changed by Israelis, and many scholars, including Avshalom Kor, claim that the transferring of the name "Mizrahim" was a form of Orientalism towards the Oriental Jews, similar to the ways in which Westjuden had labeled Ostjuden as "second class" and excluded them from possible positions of power. (wikipedia.org)
  • He met religious and secular Jews, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews, Arab Israelis, Druze and bedouins. (jewishexponent.com)
  • This is a continuation of that conversation, extending what transpired between them in person and in writing, and further elaborating on their ideas about the links between Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the imperial politics of color. (nd.edu)
  • And try to find out how many of these Jews were natives and how many were recent settlets in Palestine. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The new name "Palestine," according to former Harvard Professor H. H. Ben-Sasson, was an attempt to destroy the connection between the Jews and their homeland. (thecrimson.com)
  • Where do you think of "Jew" and "Arab" as mutually exclusive words? (rc.org)
  • Mizrahi Jews (Hebrew: יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת-הַמִּזְרָח, lit. (wikipedia.org)
  • It translates as "Easterner" in Hebrew and refers to Oriental Jews. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the past, the origin of the term Mizrahi was in the Hebrew translation of Eastern European Jews' German name Ostjuden, as seen in the Mizrahi Movement, Bank Mizrahi and in HaPoel HaMizrahi. (wikipedia.org)
  • This original population assimilated with the local Berber/Amazigh population and mixed with the mass of Spanish Jews that arrived in the area after the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. (mizrahistories.com)
  • With regards to American racial and ethnic categories, some identify as Jews of Color, some as non-white, and some as white. (sephardicstudy.org)
  • The event is jointly sponsored with The New School, Jacobin Magazine, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), and Haymarket Books, which published On Antisemitism. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • Leo Ferguson is the community and communications organizer for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • Many Sephardic Jews migrated to Arab countries and blended into the local populations, so it has become hard to distinguish African Mizrahi from Sephardic Jews. (secondexodus.com)
  • As an Arabic-speaking Jew, Behar forces us to ask: what about Jews who speak Arabic and embrace Arab culture as their own? (boulderjewishnews.org)
  • By comparison, Sephardic Jews come mainly from the Iberian Peninsula, but more recently they have come to include Jews from Africa or Asia. (secondexodus.com)
  • For ten years, Professor Halper worked in Jerusalem's inner-city neighborhoods where he helped initiate the Ohel social protest movement of working-class Mizrahi Jews. (indybay.org)
  • JIMENA offers unique educational opportunities and publicizes the stories of the nearly one million Jews displaced from Arab lands. (stanfordreview.org)
  • If you don't know, wine and cheese are two of the hardest items to find kosher, and until recently, most Orthodox Jews - especially outside of New York - had to put up with a very small selection of both. (myjewishlearning.com)
  • You are on the web site of my very dear friend Marty Barrack , who is the most authentic Jew you will ever meet, and the most orthodox authentic Catholic you will ever meet. (secondexodus.com)
  • Last Saturday night [Feb. 2], two of the three heads of the Shas party, Eli Yishai and Ariel Atias, arrived at television studios to warn that implementing Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid's plan to enlist ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military would result in civil war. (al-monitor.com)
  • The alliance being forged between Lapid and Naftali Bennett, leader of the HaBayit HaYehudi party - which is based on a shared goal of enacting a strict law for military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews - isn't the only front that poses a threat to Shas. (al-monitor.com)
  • Join the Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Community of New York for Egalitarian Sephardi High Holidays, delivered in Maghrebi and Yerushalmi nusahim, led by Laura Elkeslassy and friends. (jfrej.org)
  • We're the Mizrahi Jews, which is a smaller community that a lot of people don't know about. (aspenfilm.org)
  • The premier Sephardi synagogal organisation in Britain is the S&P Sephardi Community (until about 2015 known as the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation ). (jewishgen.org)
  • These phenomena have resulted in a conflation of terms, particularly in official Israeli ethnic and religious terminology, with Sephardi being used in a broad sense and including Middle Eastern Jews, North African Jews, as well as Sephardim proper from Southern Europe around the Mediterranean Basin. (wikipedia.org)
  • Middle Eastern and North African (Mizrahi) Jews contribute immensely to the great eclecticism that characterizes Israeli society and culture. (stanfordreview.org)
  • The painful stories of thousands of Jews who were sent to concentration camps and forced to participate in the death marches. (ynetnews.com)
  • As Stanford students interested in gaining more comprehensive, nuanced, and accurate understandings of current developments around the world, including the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is imperative to familiarize ourselves with the stories of Jews from Arab countries as well as other minorities who have been affected by tension and intolerance. (stanfordreview.org)
  • object to the use of "Mizrahi" to include Moroccan and other North African Jews. (wikipedia.org)
  • People always ask me what kind of Jew I am. (hillel.org)
  • People would always ask me what kind of Jew I was. (hillel.org)
  • Growing up as an Iranian Jew in San Diego, everyone was kind of confused by that and what that meant. (aspenfilm.org)
  • Balad's ad is a protest against the loyalty pledge put forth by Lieberman that would have forced all non-Jews to take an oath of loyalty to the state. (aljazeera.com)
  • The puppet government overturned the law from the 1870s that gave Jews full citizenship and instituted antisemitic laws modeled after those in Nazi Germany. (mizrahistories.com)
  • I then searched 'Jews and Obama' on youtube and found a video of Chaim talking about Obama. (jtf.org)
  • We immigrated to a rural area of Central Florida where, in the '90s, there weren't a lot of immigrants at the time, and there definitely weren't a lot of Jews. (aspenfilm.org)
  • However, a Mizrahi friend brought to my attention that it would have been more appropriate to depict Ashkenazi activists making these claims. (jewishcurrents.org)