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But a new report written by on-the-ground observers suggests that one of the primary barriers to the Jews’ departure is ... The safety of the Jewish community in Yemen, which numbers roughly ...
Yemen’s Jewish community is estimated to have ... with the Houthis using them as a bargaining chip to effect the departure of the community without causing an international outcry.
Their departure was first reported by the London ... good financial conditions,” including housing units. The Yemeni Jewish community — once over 50,000 strong — has dwindled in recent ...
A dwindling, tiny Jewish community in the northwestern Yemeni province of Amran is threatened with extinction amid continued emmigration of its members due to increasing harassment and persecution ...
RAYDAH, Feb 19, 2009 (AFP) - They have closed their three synagogues and two schools, and avoid public places -- members of the small Jewish community of Raydah in northern Yemen are gripped by fear.
Although The Media Line was told that since the airlift and the rabbi’s departure the fear is that all Jewish rituals will become extinct in Yemen, it’s still possible to travel to Sana’a ...
SANAA (Reuters) - Three more Jewish families will leave Yemen for Israel this week, according to a Yemeni rabbi who laments the dwindling of an ancient community ... the departure of about 50,000 ...
A Jewish cemetery in Yemen’s southern port city Aden is undergoing restoration meant to preserve the last remnant of the country’s once-booming Jewish community. “[Yemen’s] political ...
Hodeidah, a major port city on Yemen's Red Sea coast, has been an important center of trade and culture since its early days. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, the Jewish community in Yemen ...
The Jewish Varieties of Yemenite Arabic. Treasures from the Nahum collection. Courtesy of National Library of Israel The language of the Yemeni community is fascinating as well. “The dialects ...
The news is also significant because of the contentious history shared by the National Library and the Yemenite Jewish community. Thousands of books, manuscripts, and cultural artifacts were ...
Yemen’s Jewish community is estimated to have ... with the Houthis using them as a bargaining chip to effect the departure of the community without causing an international outcry.