Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.
Prof. Shaul Stampfer had set out to research what bagels and falafel mean to Jews. But what he discovered on the way surprised him – and goes to the heart of Israeli-Palestinian identity politics. Stampfer, a professor of Soviet and East European Jewry at Hebrew University’s Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, examined the history of…
At a bus station in downtown Haifa, handwritten signs in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian have been taped to the glass: “Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies.” It’s perhaps a simplistic slogan for these charged times, but at least some Haifa residents appear to agree with it. Dozens had signed their names on the posters,…
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin called for building trust between the Arab and Jewish communities in Israel, during an Iftar meal with Arab leaders at his Jerusalem residence. “The citizenship of the Arab residents of the State of Israel is not a goodwill gesture,” Rivlin said in a meeting with Arabic media Sunday night before the…
Have you ever thought about making demands about your taxi driver’s ethnicity or religion? “Hello, car service, I’d like my driver white and Christian, please?” No, you would never. Because that would be, well, racist, right? Apparently, Cinema City — a movie theater complex in Jerusalem — was doing exactly that. For months. A bunch of…
(JTA) — Ever wonder how the Israeli government gets rid of its chametz, or leavened foods, at Passover? For the past 15 years it has been symbolically selling all the chametz from state-owned companies, the prison service and Israel’s national emergency supply to Hussein Jabar, an Arab-Israeli resident of Abu Ghosh. It then buys it all…
Israel dismissed celebration of a nuclear framework deal between major powers and Iran on Thursday, calling it detached from reality, and vowed to continue lobbying to prevent a “bad” final agreement. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement after the announcements in Switzerland: “The smiles in Lausanne are detached from wretched reality in…
Courtesy of J Street For the Jews who attended this year’s J Street Conference, the event was an expression of community, idealism and ideology. In a way, it was about how Israel was all about us, the Jews. It was about our values and our identity, which have been so inextricably intertwined with the state…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he regretted offending Israel’s Arabs during a rallying call on election day last week that his critics had denounced as racist. In a video clip posted on his Facebook page, Netanyahu told representatives of Israel’s Arab community: “I know that the things I said a few days…
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