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Quarantine culture picks from Israel-Palestine and the Middle East
Our top recommendations for classics and little-known gems from the region to keep you entertained in a time of social distancing.
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 24, 2020
Ten things you didn’t know about Mimouna
Mimouna, the traditional festival celebrated by North African Jews on the last day of Passover, is often overlooked when discussing the Jewish holiday of liberation. Here are 10 things you might not know about the celebration that once brought Jews and Muslims together. By Ophir Toubul 1. The name of the holiday, “Mimouna,” has several…
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Cafe Gibraltar
April 10, 2015
The Israel-Palestine Lorde diaries, chapter 13: Overwhelmed
In this country, looking at things differently can really get your head spinning. Part 13 of 15. To read the rest of the series, click here. And so the project took a real conceptual shift. There was no denying it: this was the same shift my own political views took in recent years. Once I strongly…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
February 26, 2015
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WATCH: Shas’ stunning election ad is a challenge to both Right and Left
The ultra-Orthodox party, which has drifted far to the right over the past several years, reaches out to the all the Israelis who are not middle-class – which is to say, the majority. Shas, the party founded by the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and today led by Rabbi Aryeh Deri, is usually seen as the…
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Dimi Reider
January 18, 2015
Can a Mizrahi girl fit into Israel’s national story?
I grew up in a place where my first name was nothing more than a word on my identification card. Where the Holocaust was something that didn’t belong to me. Where my story had no place. All because of my ethnicity. By Adi Sadaka Ever since I was a young girl and through my years growing…
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Cafe Gibraltar
October 19, 2014
Now trending: Orientalism for babies
Most of the world is not familiar with post-colonial theory, and this album’s success is due to the audience’s naiveté. But forget politics; let me hug a baby and sing songs of nostalgia, anew. By Ilana Shazur Whoever chose the name “Baby Oriental 2” likely never heard of the term Orientalism. Had they heard of it,…
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Cafe Gibraltar
June 4, 2014
Yearning for Iran: An elegy for my other homeland
A homeland is not a piece of cultivated land, nor the object of a war for pride. Homeland is not nationalism. Love has no place where land is a tool for control. Homeland is an idea through which we mold our hopes and our most secret fears. It is an unconditional love. By Avraham H.…
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Cafe Gibraltar
May 24, 2013
From Umm Kulthum to Woody Guthrie: Thoughts on cultural sovereignty
For an Israeli who has only known occupied, subdued and desperate Middle Eastern cities, there is something exciting about rediscovering the cultural world of a confident, proud Levant, cognizant of its traditions and histories. By Amos Noy (translated by Matan Kaminer) To ‘Amar, with fond remembrance. Between the demand for “authenticity,” which, while conscious of itself,…
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Cafe Gibraltar
May 10, 2013
Mizrahi culture was suppressed, Ashkenazi culture is simply forgotten
Since the founding of the State of Israel, the Ashkenazi elite has suppressed the Mizrahi culture Jews from Arab countries brought with them. But almost without us noticing, those who led the Zionist project also erased whatever was left of the Ashkenazi traditions from Eastern Europe. By Edan Ring Family Day was no different from…
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Cafe Gibraltar
April 29, 2013
Finding a place in the Middle East through music
Although the racism and hatred between Israel and its neighbors seems as entrenched as ever, many Mizrahi artists are connecting to their Arab roots. Does this trend portend a brighter future for the Middle East? By Mati Shemoelof and Ophir Toubul In an interview with Al Arabiya several years ago, popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben…
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Cafe Gibraltar
April 21, 2013
The Mizrahi canon: Top classics from the margins of Israeli society
Although Mizrahi artists have become household names that can sell out amphitheaters, their music is still missing from the Israeli musical canon. The culture that Mizrahi Jews never forgot, along with the attachment to their roots and faith, are excellent tools for creating new Mizrahi classics. By Avi H. Muthada Classics, like good wine, must…
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Cafe Gibraltar
April 8, 2013
Between Ashkenazim and Sephardim: A guide to Passover piyutim
Jewish liturgical poetry dates back to the Bible and the rabbinical sages that came after. In honor of Passover, Café Gibraltar presents a primer to traditional Jewish religious singing for the holiday and the Jewish month of Nisan. By Patia Hana The holiday of Passover summons a plethora of piyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry usually sung, chanted…
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Cafe Gibraltar
April 1, 2013
The Ofra Haza enigma: How Israel’s greatest pop star is remembered
What does it say about Israeli society when 13 years after her death, Ofra Haza is best remembered for succumbing to AIDS and for a Mizrahi accent that Israelis just can’t help but mock? By Adi Keissar Some time in the 1980s, the world became divided into two camps. Either you loved Yardena Arazi or…
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Cafe Gibraltar
March 23, 2013
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