Yad Mizrah Magazine

Enta Omry, You Are My Life

The story of a strange family inheritance

Mar 21 • Maia Zelkha

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Scenes from the Aftermath of the Beit Shemesh Strike

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — The explosion took my breath away.

Mar 15 • Maia Zelkha

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February 2026

The Post-Diasporic Jewish Identity

Jewish ethnic distinctions are fading into memory. What comes next?

Feb 24 • Maia Zelkha

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January 2026

“You Don’t Look Sephardi!”

On Exoticism, Brownness, and the Racialization of Jews

Jan 29 • Maia Zelkha and Aurele Tobelem

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On Homeland

A Jewish Reflection on Belonging

Jan 24 • Maia Zelkha

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December 2025

Reading Coffee, Telling Fortunes

Inheriting a family ritual of storytelling through the images left in coffee grounds.

Dec 30, 2025 • Maia Zelkha

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Is Safta Yaffa’s Baharat Still Fresh After 17 Years in the Freezer?

How a frozen box of spice carried memories across three generations.

Dec 30, 2025

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.

Dec 30, 2025

What's Missing in Today’s Amazigh Jewelry Revival

Recovering my grandfather’s legacy and the deep Jewish roots of Morocco’s jewelry trade.

Dec 30, 2025 • Aurele Tobelem

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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.

Dec 30, 2025

Looking Back With Albert Memmi

How Memmi’s 1953 novel La Statue de sel reframes the struggle to preserve Jewish memory in the Maghreb.

Dec 30, 2025

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…

Dec 30, 2025