Cairo — More than 10 million people live in Egypt's capital, but only three of them — all older women — are Egyptian Jews. At 70, Magda Haroun is the youngest, and the leader of Cairo's now ...

Fewer than 200 remain in Arab nation, where a small group is trying to hold on to artifacts.

While Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely ...

More recently, the Jews of Egypt have had a painful, and documented, history: In its first stages of modernization, under the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the 19th century, ...

For the remaining Jews of Egypt, the local reaction to the Suez Crisis made life miserable. By the end of June 1957, some 25,000 out of the 45,000 Jews in Egypt were estimated to have left.

“Jews were slaves for 400 years in Egypt,” explained Rabbi Shoshana Feferman as she led the Sunday school class. “By God’s miracle, they left Egypt and spent 40 years in the desert.” ...

A handful of Jews are also believed to remain in Egypt’s second largest city, Alexandria. Up until the 1950s, about 80,000 Jews were estimated to be living in Egypt.

Egypt was once home to one of the largest and oldest Jewish communities in the Middle East. By the early 20th century, Egypt was still home to more than 80,000 Jews, including Sephardim, Karaites ...

Jewish men in Cairo, late 1940s. (Of note: Rav Ovadia Yosef is in front row in middle. This synagogue was disbanded when Jews left Egypt, and has since been reconstituted in Brooklyn, N.Y.) An ...

More than 10 million people live in Egypt’s capital, but only three of them — all older women — are Egyptian Jews. At 70, Magda Haroun is the youngest, and the leader of Cairo’s now ...