Tag Archives: Egypt

  We are excited to announce an upcoming lecture series featuring the eminent scholar Dr. Alexander Beider! This engaging series promises to be an enlightening journey into the rich tapestry of Jewish history, genealogy, and linguistic heritage. Dates: 01/31, 02/28, 03/27, 05/01, 05/29, 06/19 and 06/26. Time: All lectures will take place on Wednesday …

As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Joseph Esses and Olga Abadi Esses z»l from Syria. Part 5, Syria As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week long series to commemorate the …

As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Asad Muallim from Iraq. Part 4, Iraq Although Asad left Iraq illegally in the early 1960s, his family that stayed endured many hardships, including arrests …

As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Ronit Eskenasi from Lebanon. Part 3, Lebanon Ronit’s grandfather was successful in smuggling several Jews out of Lebanon, wearing only the clothes on their backs, …

As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Noemi Lieberman, originally from Tripoli, Libya. In 1947, wearing only the clothes on their backs, she and her family were forced to flee Libya, …

B’nai Brith Canada Launches Series in Tribute to Jews from Arab Lands From the 1940s until the 1970s, and heightening with the founding of Israel in 1948, nearly 1-million Jews were expelled from their homes across Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Iran. In …

Last week, history was made in a manner of speaking, as a Ministry of Education Committee, tasked with empowering Sephardi and Mizrahi cultural studies and history within the general education curriculum, led by Israel Prize laureate Erez Biton, handed its recommendations to Education Minister Naftali Bennett. While for many, this will …

The words that someone from Egypt had posted on my Facebook page were thoroughly inspiring. Now that Hosni Mubarak’s regime was almost certainly going to collapse, wouldn’t it be wonderful, she asked, if all Christians, Jews, and Muslims exiled during Gamal Abdel Nasser’s fiercely anti-Western and anti-Semitic years were finally …

A film about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century Produced by The David Project for Jewish Leadership and Isra TV, The Forgotten Refugees explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the …

Baltimore Blanche Sachs Special to the Jewish Times Author André Aciman’s recent speech to the American Sephardi Federation yearly Benefit Dinner in New York at the Essex House Hotel near Central Park was a wake up call for the audience and hopefully people not present. He lamented the loss of …