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Bahraini Jews

President Isaac Herzog (right) meets with members of the Bahrain Jewish community in Manama on December 4, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
December 5, 2022, 11:37 am
Herzog meets with small Bahrain Jewish community in Manama
President, on first-ever official visit, receives gifts from local Jews, whose presence in island kingdom dates back some 140 years
By Lazar Berman
A view of the Jewish cemetery in Manama, Bahrain. (Courtesy of Association of Gulf Jewish Communities via JTA)
January 11, 2022, 5:11 pm
Jewish communities in Gulf states to launch campaign to restore Bahrain cemetery
Association of Gulf Jewish Communities plans to plant trees, starting on Tu Bishvat holiday, as part of initiative to renovate the only functioning Jewish graveyard in the Gulf
By Shira Hanau
Promotional material for Jewish Singles in the Gulf, a dating website for Jewish singles living in Gulf countries. (Association of Gulf Jewish Communities)
October 31, 2021, 8:41 pm
New Jewish dating site launched for Gulf Jews
UAE and Bahrain Jewish leadership say that with new service for singles, young Jews ‘more likely to get married here and establish their families here’
By Shira Hanau
Bahrain's Jewish community celebrated its first Jewish wedding in the country in 52 years Sunday. (Houda Nonoo via JTA)
October 12, 2021, 3:59 am
Bahrain hosts first Jewish wedding in over 50 years
Kosher function a milestone for Jewish community in Gulf kingdom that recently made peace with Israel
By Shira Hanau
Ebrahim Nonoo, the head of the Jewish Community in Bahrain, prays on the sabbath at the House of Ten Commandments Synagogue in the capital Manama on September 4, 2021.(Mazen Mahdi / AFP)
September 14, 2021, 7:33 am
Bahrain Jews worship in public for 1st time in decades thanks to Abraham Accords
Leader Ebrahim Nonoo says he’s bringing Jewish traditions into plain view after community of several dozen had worshipped in private since 1947
By Haitham el-Tabei
A photo of the bar mitzvah boy in Bahrain. (Courtesy of Association of Gulf Jewish Communities)
August 23, 2021, 7:50 am
Bahrain’s Jews celebrate first bar mitzvah in 16 years
Boy reads from Torah scroll donated by Jared Kushner after normalization accord with Israel
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Elie Abadie (yellow tie) joins the Jewish community in the UAE for a Hanukkah celebration (photo credit: Courtesy)
February 15, 2021, 7:42 am
Beth Din of Arabia: Jews in Gulf countries announce first communal organizations
Spurred by new accords with Israel, communities in UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia create new body under Beirut-born Rabbi Elie Abadie to oversee Jewish life
By Lazar Berman
The facade of the only synagogue in the kingdom of Bahrain, in the capital Manama, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 destruction of Jewish shops and houses of worship by Nazi groups in Germany, lit up as part of the 'Let There Be Light global campaign against anti-Semitism, racism, intolerance and hatred, November 9, 2020 (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)
November 10, 2020, 9:52 am
For first time ever, Bahraini Jews mark anniversary of Kristallnacht
Kingdom’s only synagogue lit up to remember 1938 assault by Nazis on Jews and their property in Germany – part of global ‘Let There Be Light’ campaign against anti-Semitism, racism
By AFP
Jewish representative Nancy Khedouri, second from left, and other Bahraini officials meet with foreign representatives, including US Ambassador Justin Siberell, far left. (Courtesy of Khedouri via JTA)
September 16, 2020, 8:20 am
Jews have lived in Bahrain for 140 years; the Israel deal changes their lives
Leader of tiny community, Ebrahim Nonoo, says he can now talk to relatives and feel free about coming to Israel; hopes Jews will settle in Gulf nations
By Josefin Dolsten
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