*Translation: Google Translate
25 Heshvan 5786 | November 16, 2025
*Translation: Google Translate
25 Heshvan 5786 | November 16, 2025
Located in the Flanders region, Antwerp is known as the center of the global diamond trade. The city, the second most important port on the continent, is home to one of Europe's most traditional Jewish communities.
The Jewish presence in Syria, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, was on the verge of extinction. It is estimated that in 1948, after the creation of Israel, thousands of the approximately 40 Jews living there left the country.
Syrian Jews are part of the epic of the extinction of Jewish communities in the Arab world. Their history is long and complex, and their main communities – Aleppo and Damascus – were once important and prosperous Jewish centers.
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.
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