For hundreds of years, the spring holiday of Seharane was one of the key elements of Kurdistan Jews identity. It also helped them develop friendly relations with their Muslim neighbors. In the early 1950s, the Jewish community of Kurdistan emigrated to Israel and, for a while, stopped to celebrate Seharane as a result of absorption difficulties and Israeli society’s opposition against Eastern Jewish traditional culture. Celebrating Seharane resumed only in the mid-1970s, and this process was shaped by long and painful experience of its adaptation to urban realities and its concurrence with another festival, that of Mimuna — the Moroccan Jews spring holiday. Today Seharne continues to function as an important cultural marker of Kurdistan Jews in Israel which highlights the multicultural character of the Israeli society.