Monthly Essay ·
Three decades ago, a million emigres from Eastern Europe arrived in Israel, increasing its population by 20 percent almost overnight and changing its culture forever. What’s their story?
Observation ·
The noted author and political thinker drops by our studio to talk about his other passion: Israeli music and the ways it has shaped the country.
Observation ·
The majority of Israeli Jews, Lyn Julius points out in her book Uprooted, are not new to the Middle East—they were moved from one part of it to another.
Observation ·
In 1960s Israel, Arabic-speaking Jews were invaluable as spies for their new country. In normal life, they were marginalized.
Observation ·
A letter from the "development town" of Ofakim, where Jews from North Africa are helping to forge a new Israeli culture.
Observation ·
Of shlukh and shlokh.
Response ·
By winning wars and becoming sovereign, the Jews of the Middle East have inverted the regional order of things, and been spared the fate of other native minorities.
Response ·
There are many facets of the Mizrahi story that remain unknown.
Response ·
Most of the people in the Middle East have no idea that Jews once lived among them—virtually all signs of Jews there have been erased. How did this come to happen?
Monthly Essay ·
Long shut out of the country’s story, Middle Eastern Jews now make up half of Israel’s population, influencing its culture in surprising ways. Who are they?
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