Tag: Jew

It means that Jewish is my religion and that my cultural and culinary heritage come from the Arabic world. Actually, my DNA shows an ancestry that is mostly Arabic, Egyptian, Italian. To me, North Africa is this distant region of the world where my parents were born and that I ‘ve never seen. ...

I’m a bad Jew. I didn’t have a bat-Mitzvah and I don’t fast on Yom Kippur. I’ve adopted a few sweet traditions to share with friends and family, like baking challah on Friday and lighting Hanukkah candles, only in my adulthood. But while I didn’t grow up with many tradi...

Iam not a specialist in Jewish studies, let alone in the study of antisemitism. Nor, according to most conventional definitions, am I a Jew. Yet I wrote a book about the weaponization of antisemitism for the purposes of erasing Palestine. What qualifies me to comment on this matter, as ...