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December 2025

Reading Coffee, Telling Fortunes
Inheriting a family ritual of storytelling through the images left in coffee grounds.
 • Maia Zelkha
Is Safta Yaffa’s Baharat Still Fresh After 17 Years in the Freezer?
How a frozen box of spice carried memories across three generations.
Bringing Judeo-Baghdadi Back to Life with the Jewish Languages Project’s Heirloom
Inside the Jewish Languages Project’s effort to preserve dying Jewish languages for the next generation.
What's Missing in Today’s Amazigh Jewelry Revival
Recovering my grandfather’s legacy and the deep Jewish roots of Morocco’s jewelry trade.
 • Aurele Tobelem
Raz Akta is Reviving a Lost Art.
With no heirlooms to inherit, Yemenite silversmith Raz Akta picked up the craft instead— and tells the story in his own voice.
Looking Back With Albert Memmi
How Memmi’s 1953 novel La Statue de sel reframes the struggle to preserve Jewish memory in the Maghreb.
A Glimpse into Esther Chehebar’s Brooklyn
An excerpt of Esther Chehebar’s new debut novel about three Syrian Jewish sisters, who chase love and grapple with the growing pains as they seek their…
How Do You Mourn a Language You Never Really Spoke?
Samantha Ellis’s new memoir wrestles with the fragile inheritance of Judeo-Arabic and Iraqi Jewish culture.
 • Maia Zelkha
Wounded Tigris
The Tigris and Euphrates are drying up— and with them, the memory of a pluralistic Iraq.
Avra'Am
Drawing on Algerian fibula traditions and North African Jewish silversmithing, Adam Anderson explores identity through the ritual of object-making.
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