Heritage
Help Preserve Judaeo-Arabic
University of Haifa Mother Tongue Project aimed at preserving pieces of our linguistic heritage. The phenomenon of language death is not unique to the Jewish people. The loss of languages […]
Iraqi Jews – Preserving a Rich Heritage
by Sharon Kanon (WZPS) It is hard to imagine what it must have been like to take a stroll down a street in Baghdad, or sit on the shores of […]
22 Nut-Free Charoset Recipes
Have you tried avocadoes, bananas, ginger, chocolate or cayenne pepper in charoset? How well does traditional apples-nuts-wine charoset stand up to her cousins? Have an international Jewish taste test and discover your […]
The Jewish Community of Baghdad, Iraq
Reposted from Beit Hatfutsot In recent years [late 19th and early 20th century] Jews in Iraq were permitted to live in two cities only – Baghdad and Basra. They numbered […]
I Left Iraq but Iraq Never Left Me
Jewish Exiles Finally Begin to Tell Their Story Sephardi Voices, an Israeli audiovisual documentary project, aims to retell the story of Jewish civilization to include ‘the richness of Sephardi Jews’ […]
Shavu‘ot in Baghdad: 75th anniversary of the Farhud
by Joe Samulels The festival of Shavu‘ot commemorates the time when the Jews received the Torah at Mount Sinai. It also marks the beginning of a new agricultural season, Hag […]
Finding my roots in Tel Aviv
Raised in England by Iraqi Jewish parents, Rachel Shabi ‘blanded out’ her family heritage to fit in with her peers. Years later, she has finally learned to embrace her parents’ […]
Arabic has a Jewish dialect, and these women speak it
Public Radio International tells us the unlikely story of the near-death and cultural revival of Judeo-Arabic. Alina Simone tracked down three Judeo-Arabic speakers in Montreal. They arrived there decades […]
Tel Aviv: Israel’s Iraqi Jews Remember Their Past
by Hannah Benson An exhibit at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, displays what life was like in the “transit camps” for Israel’s Iraqi-Jewish immigrants after being […]
Paradise Lost – An Iraqi Jewish Story
interview with Tamara Ruben by ReformJudaism.org editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer. Tamara Ruben, the education director of Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey, was born in Iraq in June 1950, only […]
In Israel, Iraqi Jews Reflect on Baghdad Heritage
By JAMES GLANZ and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ Photo The reconstructed alleys of the Jewish quarter of Baghdad at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, outside Tel Aviv. […]
