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The Post-Diasporic Jewish Identity
Jewish ethnic distinctions are fading into memory. What comes next?
 • Maia Zelkha
“You Don’t Look Sephardi!”
On Exoticism, Brownness, and the Racialization of Jews
 • Maia Zelkha and Aurele Tobelem
On Homeland
A Jewish Reflection on Belonging
 • Maia Zelkha
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.
Wounded Tigris
The Tigris and Euphrates are drying up— and with them, the memory of a pluralistic Iraq.
In 2022, I Was Deported from Kurdistan.
Like the Jews before me, I was told to leave and not return.
Why My Iraqi Family Never Talks About What Happened to Them.
By Sarah Sassoon
When Cairo’s Jews Vanished, My Uncle Was Left With the Keys
Long after Cairo’s Jews were gone, my uncle still held the keys to one Jewish shop, and with that, and the memory of a lost community.
“Memory is a Mechanism for Forgetting”: Reflections on the Nostalgia of Exile
Why do Jews forced to leave Arab countries have positive memories?
Jewish Unity vs. Sephardic Particularism
Rav Uziel’s Sephardic Vision for the Jewish People
 • Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
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