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Yemenite Children Affair

'Songs for the Brokenhearted': A mosaic of Israeli society - review

This cast of characters and their stories offer an authentic mosaic of the people who make up Israeli society, portraying the tensions, the long history, and the unresolved traumas.

|ByJANICE WEIZMAN
Jews from Yemen are seen heading to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.
SHANI OSHRI will be backed by a 12-piece ensemble playing Western and traditional Eastern instruments.

A woman's world of sound: 'Memory Traces' touts Jewish women in Yemen of yore

Memory Traces mines the rich, multi-layered, and largely hidden seams of songs chanted by Yemenite Jewish women across the generations, unbeknownst to their menfolk.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
Cakes for a happy birthday (Illustrative).

Grapevine: Triple-digit mazal tov

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Yemenite Children's Affair: Health Ministry weighs options after new report

An organization representing families of babies who went missing in the 1950s demanded that the Health Ministry adopt an internal report as its policy, which could see them face legal action.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Yemenite Children Affair: Burial site opened after family request, court order

The remains were exhumed early on Tuesday morning, according to the family's lawyers, who demanded in 1997 that 10 other graves be opened.

JULY 19, 2023
A cemetery is seen in Migdal Ha’emek, northern Israel