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Two rows of tables covered in glossy runners, mixing bowls, wooden spatulas and containers of yeast, sugar, eggs, oil, flour and salt lined the garden of a villa set to host nearly 60 women.

Baking challah in Dubai: A Jewish community heads out into the open

The increasing openness of Jewish life in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai is another sign of an emerging new reality in the Middle East, where Israel’s isolation by the Arab world is ebbing.

Jenni Frazer is a freelance journalist Chief Rabbi Yosef (centre) is joined by Rabbi Levi Duchman (left) as he signs a letter of endorsement for the community. (Photo credit: Dubai Jewish Community Centre / Courtesy) In a historic first, Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, spent last weekend in Dubai, marking the first visit by a sitting chief rabbi to an Arab country. Chief Rabbi Yosef began his three-day visit by inaugurating the Dubai Jewish community’s new nursery school, Mini Miracles, and viewed the plans and proposed site for the community’s new mikveh. In a special...

Jewish nursery inaugurated in Dubai Nandini Sircar/Dubai Alamy Image The school is located in the heart of the city at Al Wasl near the Jewish Community Centre. A newly certified Jewish nursery school, called the Mini Miracles, was symbolically inaugurated in Dubai on Saturday in a sign of the deepening ties between the UAE and Israel. Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef will dedicate the community’s new school to kindergarteners during his visit to the emirate. The school is located in the heart of the city at Al Wasl near the Jewish Community Centre. Chief Rabbi Yosef’s visit is...