*Translation: Google Translate
16 Tevet 5785 | January 16, 2025
*Translation: Google Translate
16 Tevet 5785 | January 16, 2025
In the 20th and 21st centuries, the wheel of fortune of the Jews of Iran has turned several times. From a poor and despised community, it became one of the richest in the Jewish world with the rise to power of the Pahlavi dynasty. But its golden age would come
The first Jews arrived at the beginning of the 8th century BCE – before the Common Era – to the Iranian plateau, a region already inhabited by Indo-European Aryan tribes (Medes, to the north; Persians, to the south, and Parthians to the east). They were taken to
The history of the Lebanese Jewish community differs from that of the rest of the Middle East. In 1920, it became the only Jewish community to have its rights protected by the country's laws, and Jews felt as Lebanese as their fellow Jews.
Jews lived for more than 2.500 years in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. From the arrival of Islam, in the 7th century AD, Jews could live in Islamic domains as dhimmis, a legal and social condition of
Center of Jewish life on the island of Djerba, a few kilometers off the coast of Tunisia, El Ghriba is the oldest synagogue in that country and probably in all of Africa. Today, the 1.100 Jews who live in the area are practically all
For more than 2.500 years, countries in the Middle East and North Africa were home to Jews. However, in the last six decades, more than 99% of them have been forced to leave Muslim nations, from both regions, so that,
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