In his memoir, “‘Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile,”’ Elio Zarmati tells the story of his childhood in Egypt and the events that forced his family to leave. Against the ...

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 ...

The Diaspora Blessing Joseph had been away from home for twenty-two years, but his home, his upbringing, had never abandoned ...

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 ...

More than any other holiday, Passover captivates American Jews. Some 70% of us will take part in a seder tonight, the ritual meal recounting the ancient story of the Jewish people’s liberation from ...