When Haim Gabbai was 10 in wartime Morocco, his father was taken by force from the family home in Marrakesh and sent to a forced labor camp. (Photo is of […]
Lyn at Harif
Out of Egypt and into New York
The past is not dead, it is not even past’. William Faulkner’s aphorism might sum up Jean Naggar’s novel ‘Footprints on the heart.’ No matter how much her characters try and […]
How can Middle Eastern Jews reclaim their heritage?
Video recording of our important international panel discussion on moveable Jewish archive. The flight from Arab countries of almost a million Jewish refugees in the latter half of the 20th […]
Farhud 80th Anniversary commemoration
Video recording of 80th Anniversary Commemoration of the Farhud massacre in Iraq. The event was organised by Harif and the Spanish Synagogue, Montreal on 30 May and was supported by […]
From Baghdad to Gaza: today’s conflict is rooted in a Nazi-era ideology
Baghdad, 1941. There was a frenzied banging on the front door. When my mother answered it, she recognised her aunt’s Jewish cook, ashen-faced, pleading to be let in: “I was […]
Remembering the Farhud, 80 years on
It was early on 1st June, 1941, that the woman who delivered milk to Ivy Shashoua’s house in Baghdad warned: ‘Stay at home.’ Trouble was brewing for the Jews that […]
Sheikh Jarrah and asymmetrical property claims
All avenues leading to restitution of Jewish property in Arab countries are closed. Read article in full
The dispossessed Jews you will never hear about
By now the name ‘Sheikh Jarrah’ will be familiar to anyone who has been following events in Israel and Gaza. You will have learned that Arabs living in four houses […]
To combat Holocaust denial, call out Arab antisemitism
The path to true reconciliation lies in a balanced view of history, where Jewish victims of Arab antisemitism are allowed to tell their stories, and Arab states are called to […]
Jews vanish from Iraq, but still have no closure
The recent death of the “last Jewish doctor” in Iraq highlights the near-extinction of the oldest Jewish Diaspora in the world…. Read this full article in the Jewish News Syndicate […]
