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Ayala Deckel
Head of Content Development at BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, lectures on identity, Judaism and gender. Author of "Home and Back" (Hebrew). Likes to read, write and tell stories of life.
Diaspora
We never heard these stories. Forgotten stories of Jewish women who lived in Egypt and chose to remain there with the Muslim men that they loved, even though their families had immigrated to Israel. It’s time we shared these stories.
“When we left Egypt we could only take one suitcase and twenty Egyptian lira. That was all,” my grandmother said. “It was forbidden to take more than that, and we were very worried how we would manage in a new land without anything.”
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