Ashkenazi

Most Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur, while over half take part in prayer services, survey finds

Only a small number of those reported to be fasting partially or not at all are older people, according to the survey data, suggesting that the reasons are more linked to health or principle.

A Jewish man blows a shofar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City during the final Selichot prayers ahead of Yom Kippur, September 19, 2026.
Ashkenaz Festival, 2022 edition. Ilustrative.

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the Ashkenaz Jewish music and culture festival in Toronto

Yiddish music from Yad Vashem’s archives. Yiddish was the voice of Jewish life across Central and Eastern Europe for nearly a millennium until approximately five million Yiddish speakers were murdered during World War II. PremiumPremium

The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices - musicians are bringing them back

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) people in Tel Aviv in June.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion


For greater solidarity, Jews should join mass kaddish on Nov. 30

In the first half of the 20th century, almost 900,000 Jews lived in Arab countries, whereas today there exists no more than a few thousand.

A JEWISH man prays at a Moroccan synagogue.

Getting ‘inside’ Israel’s lost tribes

Israelis have always managed to unite in the face of existential external threats over the decades.

The tribe and the individual

Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for breast cancer genes

That’s the recommendation by a U.S. task force announced in an editorial this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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DNA study reveals 130,000 Hungarians are at least 50% Jewish

At least 7.6% of 4,981 people living in Hungary who took MyHeritage DNA test found to have 25% or more Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity

An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

Fundamentally Freund: Don’t let Ladino die

Ladino and all that it embodies are part and parcel of our people’s long and winding journey on the historical stage.

An illustration of a Spanish Jew before a Grand Inquisitor

The lost Yemenite children and I

The word of abduction spread like wildfire throughout more than two hundred transit camps, including our camp, and reached my father, Baba.

Yemenite immigrants on a plane flying to Lod Airport from Aden on October 23, 1949

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein does not get to define Jewish identities

“I want white Jews to acknowledge that they are white. I want white Jews to acknowledge that Ashkenazi is not a synonym for white. I want white Jews to acknowledge that some Sephardim are white too.”

A MEMBER of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel wears a medallion with the Star of David as he takes part in a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd.

Israeli TV show nominated for International Emmy Award

The Reshet comedy 'Nevsu' which was first broadcast in 2017, was nominated in the comedy category.

THE CAST of the Reshet series 'Nevsu.

Ashkenazim want to build museum of Ashkenazi culture

The Ashkenazim made great contributions in Jewish history, and brought their skills and talents to Israel. But does Israel need an Ashkenazi museum?

Jews in Europe

Orientalism and the invention of an Ashkenazi identity in Israel

How did “Ashkenazi” in Israel become synonymous with “liberal” and “Left,” and how has being “Ashkenazi” become a marker for being a “victim” of the Israeli Right?

AN ISRAELI flag near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City.