Only 12 Jews remain in Egypt, the remnant of a community of some 100,000 that lived there until the 1950s, the community’s leader said. “We are dying, we are drowning, we are finished,” Jewish ...
While Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely forgotten: the ...
Documentary maker Amir Ramses surveys the history of Egypt’s Jewish community, which played a prominent role in secular society throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries but was almost entirely ...
Egyptian authorities rescinded a ban on the screening of a documentary about Egyptian Jews. “Jews of Egypt” will be screened in theaters beginning March 27, director Amir Ramses said in a tweet. “We ...
In the past two days, the trailer of a new documentary film, "Jews of Egypt," spread over the Twitter and Facebook social networks with advice that it is a must-watch of 2012. Egyptian director Amr ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's tiny Jewish community, a frail remnant of a once flourishing minority, held a rare public ceremony on Thursday in memory of its veteran leader, Carmen Weinstein, but the ...
JERUSALEM — A fierce statement against Jews by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual guide drew criticism from an Israeli lawmaker Saturday, while a Jewish activist group called on Washington to ...
This episode of True Talk features journalist and author Massoud Hayoun, an Arab Jew whose work explores the intertwined histories of Arabs and Jews. His book, When We Were Arabs, co-written with his ...
On U.S. Capitol Hill this past week, the President of Columbia University was asked about the ongoing antisemitism on campus and the college’s attempts to curb it. Among the line of questioning was ...