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Point of no return: Haaretz spotlights the Farhud
Articles such as this one by David B Green in Haaretz is perhaps a sign that the mainstream press becoming more aware of seminal events to affect Jews in Arab countries - like the Farhud, whose anniversary according to the Gregorian calendar fell at the ...
Dateline: 2013-06-03 1:03pm -07:00T (910 words)
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Point of no return: Reasons for Moroccan exodus erased
The Marketplace in MarrakeshThis Haaretz article may be a few months old - but still extremely relevant. A whole generation of Jews from Morocco hid from their children the real reasons why they came to Israel, Adi Schwartz has found. Thanks to Orna for ...
Dateline: 2013-06-01 4:47pm -07:00T (846 words)
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Point of no return: The Farhud was a well-planned pogrom
Tonight is the 72nd anniversary of the Farhud, the horrific pro-Nazi pogrom against the Jews of Iraq. We are reproducing one of the most graphic accounts you are likely to read - by Steve Acre, who was then six.Farhud—violent dispossession—an Arabi...
Dateline: 2013-06-01 9:32am -07:00T (1190 words)
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Point of no return: BBC ignores Jewish claims in Abu Dis
Not content with reporting the news, the BBC is making it: its Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell has waded in to support Ali Ayyad's campaign to reclaim ownership of the Cliff Hotel in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis, now in the custodianship of th...
Dateline: 2013-05-31 12:32am -07:00T (667 words)
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Point of no return: Cairo belly dance music is 'hip' - in London
With thanks: Gil Guy Schalom (left) with his Baladi Blues BandIt's official. 'Music to belly dance to' is no longer confined to sleazy, smoke-filled cabarets in Cairo. Known as Baladi - Egyptian urban dance music - it is becoming increasingly 'hip' - ...
Dateline: 2013-05-30 7:17am -07:00T (282 words)
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Point of no return: Kurds could blaze the trail for Jews
Kurds demonstrate in Iraq (photo: Reuters)The disintegration of Syria could provide an opportunity for the Kurds - and that could be good for the Jews, and other minorities, Dan Diker and Harold Rhode write in the Jerusalem Post. What stands behind most...
Dateline: 2013-05-30 1:02am -07:00T (574 words)
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Point of no return: Imams' Auschwitz visit tells half the story
Muslim leaders have travelled to Germany and Poland to see and hear for themselves about the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust, the BBC reports. While visits like this are vital in combating Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world, they are more rem...
Dateline: 2013-05-29 11:17am -07:00T (990 words)
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Point of no return: Jews question Egyptian cutback - report
Detail from an Egyptian synagogueBlowback in Egypt Independent from reports of Egypt's decision to cut off funding from Egypt's tiny Jewish community: the community has written a letter to the Shura Council. It is apparently also demanding the appointmen...
Dateline: 2013-05-29 12:32am -07:00T (241 words)
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Point of no return: Israel radio campaign collects testimonies
Uri Orbach, Minister for Senior Citizens With thanks: IanIsraelis from Arab lands are being encouraged to tell their stories as part of a project run by the Israeli Ministry for Senior Citizens.The ministry are running a radio advertising campaign.The pr...
Dateline: 2013-05-28 3:17am -07:00T (151 words)
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Point of no return: Israel is more Middle Eastern than ever
Ethan Bronner used to be the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. I found fascinating his impressions of how Middle Eastern Israel really had become as intermarriage between eastern and western Jews becomes the norm. But as the New York liberal ...
Dateline: 2013-05-27 1:47pm -07:00T (562 words)
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Point of no return: Post- Arab Spring, antisemitism is worse
Hebrew inscription, Ezekiel's tomb, Iraq. The JJAC Report recommends that the US send a fact-finding mission to assess the state of 13 Jewish sites in Iraq."With the ‘Arab Spring’ came great hopes and expectations for democracy and greater freedoms f...
Dateline: 2013-05-26 12:02pm -07:00T (921 words)
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Point of no return: Moustaki will not be buried in Alexandria
Fans of Georges Moustaki will be saddened to hear of the 79-year-old chansonnier's death two days ago. Born in Egypt when it was a Levantine melting pot, he was a universalist who sang in many languages. It looks like he will not be granted his wish...
Dateline: 2013-05-25 11:17am -07:00T (261 words)
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Point of no return: From Beirut to Brazil: here comes Chella Safra
Here's a name to watch for - Chella Safra, the newly-elected treasurer of the World Jewish Congress. It would be nice to see this Beirut-born member of the well-heeled Safra banking family take a proactive role in the WJC's campaign for Justice for Jews ...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 5:17am -07:00T (426 words)
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Point of no return: Shasha: where are the Middle Eastern Jews?
David Shasha (pictured) is having a bad week. Two articles on the trot have upset this director of the Sephardic Heritage Center in New York: the first by Columbia professor Joseph Massad on Al-Jazeera managed to offend so many that it was briefly pulled;...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:47am -07:00T (726 words)
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Point of no return: Egypt cuts off funding to remaining Jews
Magda Haroun.. unclear why she is not continuing Weinstein's role The ever-vigilant Elder of Ziyon quotes a report in the Egyptian press that the Egyptian government has stopped paying a grant to Egypt's Jewish community following the death in March of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 3:47am -07:00T (248 words)
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