Immigration to the modern Jewish state has often been chaotic at best. But the insistence that nefarious motives guided its placement work with refugees is unsupported by archival evidence.

In an excerpt from Ayelet Tsabari’s memoir, ‘The Art of Leaving,’ how a Yemeni grandmother found freedom in Israel, but failed to pass on the immigrant’s new rootedness to her daughters

This pull-apart bread comes with a tasty tomato dip, too

Few details are known about the covert operation, which successfully led 19 Yemeni Jews to Israel. One of them, a rabbi, brought a 500-year-old Torah scroll with him.

Unearthed by referencing a 1926 catalogue, the scroll is believed to have origins in Yemen. How it made its way to England, however, is a mystery.

Scholars and bureaucrats scoff at the idea that Yemenite Jewish babies were once kidnapped for adoption. But the theory won’t die.

Likud lawmaker Ayoub Kara said the Yemeni government has told members of the remaining Jewish community to ‘convert or leave the state.’ The report has been refuted.

NPR and the New York Times highlight two dwindling communities

A partridge native to Yemen might go extinct. A rabbi is trying to save it, because he thinks it’s kosher.

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