WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi mentioned Blinken’s Jewish identity, and made a false and curious claim. “Mr. Secretary, ...

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 ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi falsely claimed on Sunday that Egypt had never persecuted Jewish people living in the country. “You spoke about the crisis and you spoke as a Jewish person,” ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi mentioned Blinken’s Jewish identity, and made a false and curious claim. “Mr. Secretary, ...

Mid-20th century expulsion of Egyptian Jews ended millennia of history, culture; entailed losses exceeding $59 billion. During the festival of Passover, the story is told of the exodus of the ancient ...

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 ...

Chief Rabbi Chaim Nachum Effendi, spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Egypt, today visited the Polish Minister here and turned over to him a gift of $1,000 as a contribution by Egyptian Jews ...

Totalitarians don’t like the truth. In the Soviet Union, reality was consistently denied, and bad news was ruthlessly censored. Josef Stalin’s declaration in 1935 that “Life is getting better, ...

Ahmed Kardous sets up an establishing shot. He trains the camera on the actors standing on a cliff overlooking a valley of greenery, and someone yells out, "Action." Kardous is the director of ...

On "Yom Haplitim," the National Library of Israel hosted an event titled, "Sephardi Voices: The Other Refugees."The post ...