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Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism

By Akin Ajayi

Rachel Shabi’s “You Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands” provides an impassioned argument against the neglect of the country’s Middle Eastern identity. In this Q&A, Shabi explains why she thinks, “the Israeli take on history is not terribly accommodating to different narratives.Read More

A Test of Faith

By Akin Ajayi

During a recent interview with the Forward, the Jerusalem-born director and activist Avigail Sperber described her new film, “Halakeh,” as a “small story… through which one can understand the place of a woman in Jewish religious culture.” Starring the Israeli actors Ohad Knoller and Hani Furstenberg, “Halakeh” documents the emotional journey of a young observant couple, as they travel to Mount Meron to participate in the halakeh ceremony — the shearing of a male child’s hair on the Lag B’Omer following his third birthday. The film dissects the couple’s relationship, which is placed under strain by the differing interpretations the couple make of their religious faith.Read More


     

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