Attempt to Locate Holocaust Victims' Remains Causes Rift Between Hungary's Jewish Groups
Row over whether the victims' bones should be retrieved from Danube River reveals larger debate over how the Jewish community should approach Orban's government
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Opinion So Many Mizrahim on Television
Even though Netanyahu has acted cynically, can one ignore the fact that under his governance, the socio-ethnic fabric of the public domain has changed beyond recognition?
Opinion Why I'm Angry With Israel's Mizrahi Elite
I've always hoped that the second or third generation of Jews from Muslim countries, remembering their forebears contribution to Islams Golden Age, would be a bridge from Israel to the Muslim world
In Israel, Sometimes 'The Moroccan Repairman' Went to the Sorbonne
An interviewee in a new documentary series about Mizrahi Jews tells Haaretz about life’s challenges both in France and the old-new country
Opinion Not a Word About Mizrahim
It seems like early elections are approaching. It also seems that, once again, the parties will ignore the intolerable inequality between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim
Opinion When Will the Leftists in Their Kibbutzim Absorb Refugees?
It's easy to cluck with disapproval at south Tel Aviv's Mizrahi population when hardly any of these self-righteous writers or spokespeople have ever even seen an asylum seeker
Opinion Israel's Most Combative Minister Actually Invites Dialogue
We can't wait for the perfect politician who will speak and act precisely as we would like in all areas. In the push for cultural justice, Miri Regev is all there is
Opinion Funneling Israeli Youth Toward Failure
Education Minister Naftali Bennett crowed this week about the wonderful opportunities Israel’s children have. In fact, it's not a matter of choice at all.
Opinion A Government in Denial
The Ashkenazi-Zionist propaganda machine strives to convince us that Arabs and Arab Jews are the barrier keeping us from progress and prosperity
Opinion The Danger of Ignoring Mizrahi Jews' History
The more you delve into Mizrahi Jewish history, the more you understand what a real alternative it is, one that could help to neutralize the Israeli fear machine
Opinion Netanyahu, the European Union's Border Cop
The prime minister is telling the Europeans he'll stop the Arabization of Europe, just as he signals he'll favor Israeli Jews with European roots
Opinion What Are You Rejoicing About?
How long will the discourse use tools that most people, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi, can’t understand?
Opinion Why Populists and Rightists Have Been in Power for Such a Long Time
That so few Jews of Middle Eastern or North African origin have advanced in Israeli academia is a sad reflection of systematic, if unintended, discrimination.
Opinion Ashkenazi Jews Are to Blame for Israel’s Ethnic Rift
Ashkenazi Zionism has always known how to foment trouble, in order to continue holding the reins of power.
Opinion Morality Isn't an Ashkenazi Province
The characteristics Uri Avnery attributes to the Mizrahi and Ashkenazi camps seem to come from the 1950s: They embody a wealth of arrogance, ignorance, racism and stereotyping.
Opinion When and How the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Rift Was Born
We learned from the Elor Azaria case that only after we get rid of the occupation will we be able to devote our intellectual and social resources to healing the great schism in the nation.
The Last Name Israelis Are Most Keen to Shed: Mizrahi
Names they might choose instead include Chen, Mor and Tal, while many of the country's ubiquitous Cohens and Levys are also eager to make a fresh start.
Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Convicted of Bribery, Faces 3.5 Years in Prison
Yona Metzger also ordered to pay $1.32 million as part of plea bargain.
Files on Yemenite Kids Lost in Israel Describe Adoption 'Market' of Country's Early Days
Ethnicity was often key criterion for would-be adoptive parents.
Opinion Better a Right-winger for Prime Minister Than a Moroccan?
The Zionist left thinks it's better to hand power over to the right rather than allow a Moroccan like Amir Peretz to win, because if he does, what will become of us? | Opinion
Opinion Israeli Jews With Mideast Roots Must Shun Identity Politics
Mizrahim should criticize the likes of hard-line Culture Minister Miri Regev if they disagree with her. That’s how every strong movement does it.
Dozens of Israeli Mizrahi Girls Refused by Ashkenazi Schools Stuck at Home
School principals skip Knesset Education Committee meeting, argue that state cannot compel them to accept students of Middle Eastern descent.
Opinion Us vs. Them: Identity Politics in the Service of Israeli Populism
A political pressure group's use of a scapegoat, which channels the violence, is a classic tactic intended to create social cohesion and gather political power.
Commuter Aliyah: Living in Israel, Working in France
Israeli researcher of French immigrants says he discovered a wave of immigration unlike any other - meet the Boeing aliyah: Jews who moved to Israel but work in France.
Don't Solely Blame the Government for Educational Inequality in Israel
It is too easy to just pin the blame for inequalities in our education system on the government. If we want our children to receive a good education, parents and children must assume responsibility, too.
Imagination Can Also Be a Destructive Force
Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, messianic nationalists from his Likud party, the Habayit Hayehudi party and movements similar to them in spirit are unraveling the seams of Israeli society.
Yemenite and Ashkenazi Families Could Find Common Cause in Israel's Missing-babies Affair
The news is not in noting that Ashkenazi children disappeared in the same period as the children of immigrants from Yemen, the Balkans and the Middle East - rather, the great drama is in exposing the scope of the phenomenon.
Report Sparks Dozens of New Testimonies of Ashkenazi Kids Disappearing, Some in Pre-state Israel
Haaretz receives new reports about sets of twins born in Israel, where one baby stayed in the hospital and was never seen again. 'Could my brother be alive'? asks a surviving sibling.
As Reports of Missing Israeli Children Emerge, the Story of My Lost Brother
When I read the recent series of Ofer Aderet's reports about the disappearance of children in Israel, I begin to ask myself: Where is Dan? Are you alive?
Plot Thickens in Case of Missing Israeli Children as Dozens of New Victims Emerge
It was always known that roughly a thousand of Yemenite children disappeared in the 50s, but Haaretz report has revealed Ashkenazi children 'disappeared' as well. Now, in wake of report, new families have come forward.