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Apr 11, 2026, 10:50 PM

The Shoah, the Farhud and October 7: One inherited wound

My Sephardi husband and I are part of the same people, but our families' traumas taught us very different lessons about Jewish survival

Jonathan Shavit

Mar 29, 2026, 12:51 AM

When Baghdad bombings are used as a reference in the Netherlands

The recent attacks on Jewish targets are still being investigated by Dutch authorities. The new Prime Minister Rob Jetten denounced antisemitic attacks, the Minister of Justice David van Weel updated parliament, and many people expressed shock over the attack...

Jonathan Shavit

Mar 12, 2026, 3:08 PM

Extended stay in Israel: food, memory, and sports

My aunt dropped me off at my hotel adjacent to the Tel Aviv boardwalk – or tayelet in Hebrew. After checking in and disposing of my luggage, I took her to dinner, which was the least I could do. That...

Jonathan Shavit

Feb 18, 2026, 3:12 AM

In Israel, my family found liberty

When it comes to the MENA region, there are plenty of myths that continue to be amplified without pause, such as: Israel is a Western colony; Mizrahim were duped into coming to Israel by Ashkenazim; Jews are not indigenous...

Nov 30, 2025, 2:15 PM

Nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab lands, including my family

Author's father and grandparents in Iraq, 1951, before fleeing to Israel.

Following my grandmother's injunction against anger, I pray for an end to radical Islam and for consummate normalcy between Arabs and Jews

Aug 25, 2025, 1:25 PM

From Calvary to Gaza

PC: Rachel Wahba '24

For better or worse, my life has been a lesson in antisemitism. I became a stateless Jew when I was four years old. In Mumbai, India. My mother left Baghdad for Bombay after living through the terror of the Farhud,...

Jonathan Shavit

Jun 1, 2025, 6:55 PM

An echo of a Middle Eastern pogrom

People are murdered in their homes. Corpses are mutilated. The cries and shrieks of despair uttered by families emerging through windows are counterbalanced by bellowing in Arabic by groups of men. Infants are murdered, women and girls are raped,...

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 6, 2025, 10:34 AM

The First but Not the Last Exodus

This Passover, for the umpteenth time, Jews will celebrate the Exodus from Egypt. Can the word exodus be pluralized? I ask because for Jews it was certainly the first, but unfortunately not the last. Expulsions. Pogroms. The heinous Holocaust. Jews...

Apr 1, 2025, 12:01 AM

The Real Apartheid: Erasing Jews, Blaming Israel

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk

The Jewish Communities in Arab Countries and the Real Apartheid For years, Hamas and its supporters have accused Israel of practicing apartheid, claiming that non-Jews have no place in the Jewish state. At the same time, they contradict themselves by...

Jul 27, 2024, 3:28 PM

The Courage to Object – Radical Islamic Terrorism

Kfar Aza - January 2024

My ancestors in both Iraq and Egypt feared the murderous “Yitbach El Yahud,” slaughter the Jews, the ever popular rallying cry of the crowd exiting mosques onto the street after Friday night prayers. All it took to stir up the...

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