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Oct 2, 2024, 9:22 PM

Review of ‘Songs for the Brokenhearted’ by Ayelet Tsabari

If there’s a soundtrack to Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari (Random House, September 10, 2024), it probably sounds very much like Ofra Haza's ‘Yemenite Songs’ album. Like the album, this outstanding novel is a stage for Yemenite...

Aug 24, 2023, 9:43 PM

Daughter of the Wicked – Shanit Keter Schwartz

A long-time friend and congregant and I shared lunch this week, and as we caught up on each of our lives and families, I asked, “So how is Shanit (his wife) spending her time these days.” Sam Schwartz proudly told...

Aug 21, 2020, 8:52 AM

Museum of Yemenite Jewish Heritage in Netanya, a brief history of Jews in Yemen

During our stay vacation in Israel, we took the opportunity to visit little known museums and historical sites. On our trip to Netanya, we discovered, and I mean discovered as there were no signs or indications where the Museum...

Kenneth Friedman

Mar 19, 2020, 7:16 AM

The unknown tale of Dr. J. Ida Jiggetts and Israel

How did an African-American, North Carolina Protestant, descendant of slaves, whose father was a Presiding Elder in the A.M.E. Church become the first African-American to study in Israel after it became a state? Here is the mostly unknown story of...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jan 14, 2019, 2:11 AM

How my taxi driver's baby cousin was found

What the taxi driver asked me to tell you about his baby cousin who disappeared

Illustration by Avi Katz

There is a quiet scandal about Yemenite children who went missing in the 1950s; here is what one man told me about his family

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