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Harif UK Event: https://www.harif.org/event/the-stories-moroccan-synagogues-tell/

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How many Israeli Jews fast, participate in prayers on Yom Kippur?

Three-quarters (74%) of all Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur while over half (57%) participate in the day’s…
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Rothschild Out of Control: What Happened to Tel Aviv’s Most Upscale Boulevard?

Thursday evening, Rothschild Boulevard at the corner of Nahalat Binyamin in central Tel Aviv. Crowds of teenagers and…
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‘The Fault Line’: A Documentary Miniseries Revisits the Election That Changed Israel

Of the 18 elections held in Israel over the past 50 years, only five led to the rise…
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Don't Ashkenazi and Sephardi sound different?

The answer surprises almost everyone who asks me this.

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JIMENA convened a coalition of 14 leading Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish organizations to challenge New York Magazine’s Habibi City feature and its exclusionary framing of Middle Eastern, North African, and SWANA identity.

“We are not asking to be tolerated as exceptions to an ideological rule. We are asking to be recognized as what we are: peoples of the region.”

Read the full letter: https://www.jimena.org/habibi-city/

Read the Forward coverage: https://forward.com/news/846803/sephardic-mizrahi-new-york-magazine-habibi-city/

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From Harif:
The ‘Arab world’ is a misnomer for a region comprising a rich mosaic of non-Arab and non-Muslim  peoples, sects and religions,  many of whom predate the Arab conquest and Islam in the Middle East.

However, Middle Eastern minorities have suffered a decline due to conflict and persecution. Many have been forced to flee. Demands for autonomy and self-determination have been frustrated.

What is the future for Middle Eastern minorities? To discuss this pressing question, Middle East specialist Jonathan Spyer will chair a distinguished  90-minute panel comprising Kurdish spokesman Veysi Dag,   Juliana Taimoorazy, representing Assyrian Christians,  and Yusri Khaizran from the Druze community.

Join Zoom meeting:
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The Great Replacement Theory Comes to Israel: Gadi Eisenkot and the ‘Mizrahi Tragedy’

Avishai Ben-Haim casts Eisenkot as a tool of Ashkenazi hegemony and Mansour Abbas as a threat to Mizrahi…
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When Israel’s Right feels mocked, Likud gains votes

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Voices of Distinctions:
A Library of Sages with Tamar Zaken

Join JIMENA for the second session of our Voices of Distinctions virtual conversation series, featuring contributors to Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal, on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET.

Drawing on a rich library of Sephardi wisdom, Tamar will share practical ways educators can bring Sephardi perspectives into their classrooms and communities.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YOFYS-ZDTHa2WUWWr6sEuQ#/registration

Read Tamar's Article: https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/a-library-of-sages-bringing-sephardi-wisdom-to-jewish-day-schools-2/

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Naama Lazimi Is the Superstar of the Israeli Left, and She Wants Power

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Man arrested for placing bullets, knives outside Gush Dan businesses

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JIMENA's Matthew Nouriel Joins Unpacked's Wandering Jews with Mijal Bitton

JIMENA's Director of Community Engagement Matthew Nouriel recently joined Dr. Mijal Bitton on Unpacked's Wandering Jews podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about identity, belonging, and the diversity of the Jewish people.

As a gay Iranian Jewish activist, Matthew shared his personal journey navigating multiple identities while remaining deeply connected to his Jewish and Mizrahi heritage.

Watch the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uidYc0b-ZJk&list=PLgPaAFlsq_5OPEEzj7qIyHDCL3ojnlARg&index=3&t=22s

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Join JIMENA for the first session of our Voices of Distinctions virtual conversation series featuring contributors to Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal.

Whether you're an educator, student, or lifelong learner, this conversation will offer meaningful insights and practical tools for bringing Sephardi stories into classrooms and communities.

Read Denise's article: We Belong Here, Too: Cultivating Sephardi Presence in Jewish Education
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How the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 Turned Israel’s Identity Politics on Its Head

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Ashkenazi Jews

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Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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Florida Sephardi Demographic Study:
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From Harif UK:
For all the attention the Middle East conflict attracts, the expulsion of nearly a million Jews from Arab countries is rarely acknowledged. This is why Lyn Julius has written ‘Cast Out’, a long-form essay published by the Jewish Quarterly.

For thousands of years, Jewish communities lived across the Middle East and North Africa, forming significant parts of the populations of cities such as Baghdad, Tunis, Cairo and Casablanca. Today, those communities have almost entirely disappeared.

More Info: https://www.harif.org/event/cast-out-the-untold-refugee-story/

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From Harif UK:
Baghdadi Jews have shaped Singapore’s history since 1819, yet their stories often go untold. This talk highlights the lives of David Marshall, Singapore’s first Chief Minister and a champion of inclusive citizenship, and Felice Isaacs, a leading figure in Jewish communal life—both of whom survived Japanese internment and helped rebuild the city. Their resilience and leadership in politics, law, and communal work helped forge Singapore’s multicultural identity—a legacy that still resonates today.

More Info: https://www.harif.org/event/the-baghdadi-builders-of-singapore/

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This fall, JIMENA invites you to join Voices of Distinctions, a six-part virtual conversation series that brings the pages of our latest Distinctions Journal education issue to life.

Through live conversations with the journal's contributors, we'll explore the ideas, research, and personal experiences shaping Sephardi and Mizrahi education today. 

Register Here: https://linktr.ee/VoicesOfDistinctions

Whether you're an educator, student, community leader, or lifelong learner, these discussions offer an opportunity to engage directly with the authors and continue the conversation beyond the written page.

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For our Friends in LA:
Holocaust Museum LA has expanded its educational exhibits to include the experiences of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa during the Holocaust era, helping bring greater attention to histories that have often been overlooked in mainstream Holocaust education.

More Info: https://www.holocaustmuseumla.org

Among the featured stories is that of Joseph Samuels, a cherished member of the JIMENA community and survivor of the 1941 Farhud in Baghdad.

Holocaust Museum LA's digital guide now includes educational content on Jewish experiences in the Middle East and North Africa during the Holocaust era, including testimony from Joseph Samuels.
Jews of the Middle East: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-GB/guide/holocaustMuseumLa/item/df1a085e-92eb-4ecc-b388-c81e4528c48f

Jews of North Africa: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-GB/guide/holocaustMuseumLa/item/5f81b709-7ca3-48f9-bcc9-ceb61aa639b4

Joe Samuels Story: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-GB/guide/holocaustMuseumLa/item/216eb006-3bb6-4095-b5ea-bd028633bda3

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From JIMENA:
Ghosts of a Holy War

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From Hadassah:
Executive Editor Lisa Hostein hosts a discussion with three women shining a light on the Sephardic & Mizrahi experience in the United States. Syrian Jewish writer Esther Chehebar, author of the best-selling novel Sisters of Fortune & a co-host of the new podcast GOLDA Girls; Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates for Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who has Turkish Jewish roots; and Rozeeta Mavashev, North America executive director of Masa Israel, who is of Bukharian Jewish descent, will share their perspectives as well as stories of how their experiences have evolved in an America—now celebrating its 250th birthday—where Sephardic Jews were the first to settle but where Ashkenazi Jews have long comprised the overwhelming majority of the Jewish population.

More info: https://your.hadassah.org/event/sephardic-and-mizrahi-perspectives-on-the-american-jewish-experience/e803491

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On Sunday 7 June (1 -3 pm UK) , Harif is joining forces with the National Holocaust Museum  and the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center to mark the 85th anniversary of the Farhud massacre which devastated the Jewish community of Iraq in 1941.

This is the first time that the Nottingham-based museum is exploring the topic in detail.

See also recording of Harif's Farhud commemoration of 26 May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvK5_8S9bic&t=2225s

Book tickets in person or online: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/whats-on

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Nombre des enfants enlevé·es étaient né·es dans des familles d'immigrant·es récent·es, vivant dans les camps d'absorption mal entretenus et isolés où elleux ont été installé·es par les autorités de l'État à leur arrivée.

"Il n'arrivait pas à comprendre comment une blessure aussi mineure avait pu causer la mort d'un jeune enfant en une seule journée. Mon grand-père, qui ne connaissait pas les coutumes locales, ne parlait que l'arabe yéménite et (selon mon oncle Yitzhak) portait encore le deuil de sa femme, a été renvoyé au camp et n'a pas cherché à en savoir plus. Comme dans tant d'autres histoires similaires, il n'y avait ni corps ni tombe. Mais des années plus tard, comme ils l'ont découvert, l'ordre de conscription militaire de l'enfant est arrivé à leur porte".

• Témoignage de Tal-Zahra Lavie

cité dans https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/israel-kidnapped-children-activism-yemenite-babies-affair/

#brutalisation #Yéménite #Arabe #enfants #Arabes #Yémen #Israël #immigration #Aliyah #Mizrahi #bébés #Sionisme #racismeDÉtat #histoire #suprémacismeBlanc #adoption #violenceDÉtat #ÉtatJuif

La politique d’Israël à l’égard des juifs arabes est pensée en termes de modernisation. « L’identité israélienne, fabriquée par les colonisateurs sionistes, définissait pour des Juifs diversifiés leur mode d’appartenance ».

Sophie Boutière-Damahi : https://orientxxi.info/magazine/marseille-douloureux-sas-des-juifs-arabes-vers-israel,7094

#Mizrahi #Algérie #Émigration #FranceIsraël #Maghreb #Maroc #israëlPalestine #Sionisme #Tunisie #histoire #immigration #Aliyah #Arabes #Séfarades #Sefardim #Juifs #Diaspora #Orientxxi

From Harif UK:
What were the Farhud's causes and consequences? We will hear the testimonies of survivors and analysis by professor Uzi Rabi, chairman of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82460674517?pwd=F02CmsphKajTXPA7Ar2R9o4CRpqi0y.1
Meeting ID: 824 6067 4517
Passcode: bataween

                                                           
IMPORTANT: Please note that no registration is required but for security reasons, only participants identified by name, and not 'Ipad' or 'Wonderwoman', willl be admitted. The event will be recorded.

To see recordings of previous events, click here: https://www.youtube.com/user/bataween1/videos

#JewishHistory #Mizrahi #Sephardi #MENA #Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism

From JIMENA:
On June 1–2, 1941, the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad marked a devastating turning point for Iraq’s Jewish community and reflected the spread of Nazi influence and antisemitism into the Middle East and North Africa during the Holocaust era.

Join JIMENA and Executive Director Sarah Levin for a special virtual training exploring the Farhud and the often-overlooked experiences of Jews in the Middle East during this period of history. The session will provide historical context, educational tools, and insight into why these histories remain essential today.

This event is open to all. Educators, museum professionals, students, and community leaders are especially encouraged to attend.

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AOeRRcMGQEa_4SrJrFcbSw#/registration

#JewishHistory #Farhud #JIMENA #Sephardi #Mizrahi #Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #MENA

Al #25aprile di Milano Emanuele #Fiano, si fa spiegare il corteo da Eyal #Mizrahi, presidente della Federazione Amici di Israele, che ha detto "definisci bambino" a Enzo Iachetti per giustificare il bombardamento di minorenni palestinesi. I due dicono "non bisogna deviare" e pretendono che il loro spezzone di corteo decida per la Digos. I giovani di Forza Italia, affiliati ad un partito fondato da un finanziatore della Mafia che ha sdoganato i neofascisti al governo, piangono perché contestati.

https://fost-france-europe.fr/about/

Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, Standing Together est devenu le principal groupe de campagne anti-guerre sur le territoire israélien.

Cliquez ici (www.standing-together.org/en/about-en) pour en savoir plus sur l’histoire de Standing Together.

Découvrez la Théorie du changement – Theory of Change (https://www.standing-together.org/_files/ugd/7ff315_5f69682daf404d66849f14af867a6221.pdf) – document de référence du mouvement.

Voici une traduction française du document: https://fost-france-europe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/la-theorie-du-changement-de-standing-together-version-francaise.pdf

Standing Together’s Vision: https://fost-france-europe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/standing-together-vision-2025.pdf
Democratically approved at Standing Together’s 10th anniversary national convention, Haifa, November 28, 2025

Flyer d’information sur Standing Together en français (janvier 2026): https://fost-france-europe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-11-flyer-fost.pdf

Découvrez le dossier presse du mouvement: https://fost-france-europe.fr/presse/

Découvrez les actions récentes de Standing Together: https://fost-france-europe.fr/2025/09/04/contre-le-scandale-de-la-guerre-a-gaza-2024-2025/

Standing Together sait que la majorité – les gens tout simplement – a bien plus en commun que ce qui sépare les individus et les groupes, et que seule une infime minorité bénéficie du statu quo en Israël et dans la region.

L’avenir que le mouvement recherche – la paix et l’indépendance pour les Israéliens et les Palestiniens, l’égalité totale pour tous sur cette terre, et une véritable justice sociale, économique et environnementale – est possible.

Pour y parvenir, ST s’efforce de former un front uni : Juifs et Palestiniens, laïcs et religieux, Mizrahi et Ashkénazes, ruraux et urbains, et personnes de tous genres et orientations sexuelles.

En tant que plus grand mouvement populaire judéo-arabe en Israël, nous nous engageons à créer une alternative à notre réalité actuelle en renforçant le pouvoir politique nécessaire.

Pour devenir « ami.e » – donc supporteur du mouvement – cliquez ici: https://www.standing-together.org/en/donate-en

Pour être informé.e des actions des ami.e.s de Standing Together en France – cliquez ici: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNJjRlzkllJJIUJhcAjFgi0MrrQamliCZSmbgVf6KtEf4KbA/viewform

#StandingTogether #France #Europe #Paix #Israël #Palestine #Vision #TheoryOfChange #Mizrahi #Laics #Religieux

📢 C'est demain ❤️ 👇

Le #CinéClubTsedek présente un cycle de programmation sur nos héritages politiques juifs.

“Forget Baghdad : Juifs et Arabes – Le lien irakien” (2002) de Samir. 1h51

📆 Lundi 16 mars
📍Point Éphémère
200 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris

🚪 Ouverture des portes à 19h
📽️ Projection à 19h30

🗣️ Suivie d'une discussion avec la sociologue et militante Tal Dor

🎫 Billetterie https://www.helloasso.com/associations/les-ami-es-de-tsedek-ladt/evenements/cine-club-tsedek-forget-baghdad

🎞️ Extrait d’entretien avec Ella Shohat (“Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives”, La Fabrique) et des films de propagande sioniste sur les kibboutz

#Palestine #Israël #juifarabe #mizrahi #mizrahim #EllaShohat #Tsedek #Paris #TalDor

JIMENA
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa presents

The Iranian Experience Webpage: http://jimenaexperience.org/iran/

Personal Stories of Jewish Refugees
Jewish History in Persia & Iran
Culture of Jewish Persia & Iran

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Mizrahi #Sephardi #MENA #JewishHistory

"As headlines bombard our feeds and the world watches events in Iran, Israel and the larger Middle East unfold with speed, educators - both Jewish and non-Jewish - are facing urgent and complex questions from their students. What is happening? Why does it matter? How does it connect to the Jewish people and to the United States?

Moments like this are not only international ruptures to be viewed passively. They are teachable moments."

Get the PDF: https://www.sepharditoolkit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/JIMENAs-Jewish-Iranian-Resource-Guide.pdf

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Mizrahi #Sephardi #MENA #JewishHistory

UPDATE!

This event from Harif UK has been changed to a different day - please adjust your schedules accordingly.

Link: https://www.harif.org/event/jews-in-the-declining-ottoman-empire/

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #Mizrahi #Sephardi #MENA #JewishHistory

So we are living in end times. Hopefully end of Empire and not of the world. The end of the christian-zionist imperial and capitalist age.

Alon #Mizrahi phrased his mood thus:

If I were to describe the political mood I’ve been in this past week, I would call it ‘teary-eyed and happy-hearted‘: things are sad, but the trajectory is sunny. InshaAllah, I’ll be proven right.

Make it so.

I link you to a different blog rant by him that is even more rejoicing https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi/note/c-192352247

#press #israel #us #empire #endtimes #zionism

Brilliant rant by Alon #Mizrahi!

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“If you feel a little desperate and weak in the knees over the #enshitification of life by the #US, #Israel and the #EU, I urge you to focus on what's really happening, and ignore the hellish cacophony manufactured by Western psychopaths in propaganda outlets. Immediate comfort is guaranteed”

Read on … it gets much, much better!

https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi/note/c-192352247

#West #Doomed #Humanity #Wins

RE: https://ohai.social/@archaeohistories/115778947009482053

Rather fascinating read of #Mizrahi Jewish female doctor Sabat Islambouli
https://www.upliftingsyrianwomen.org/sabat-islambouli-a-woman-of-history/

Una città che non esiste più nella realtà, ma che vive ostinatamente nelle mie vene e nella mia anima, e anche nel mio cognome.

Ci penso di notte, lo sogno mentre dormo e nelle ore di veglia.

Ho persino viaggiato fino a quella che un tempo era Majdal e che ora fa parte della periferia #Mizrahi di Israele, per vedere con i miei occhi il luogo che rivendica di essere le mie radici, anche se oggi esiste solo come ricordo e nostalgia.

Quando parlo con gli abitanti di Gaza provenienti da Majdal, dico loro sempre con una sorta di orgoglio che sono originaria di quella zona.
Per loro, faccio parte del tessuto sociale, della storia, del loro destino comune.
E io, di fronte a questo abbraccio, mi sento a disagio. ⬇️5

From Reboot:
This season, bring a vibrant new tradition to your Hanukkah or winter gatherings with Erev Yalda: A Celebration of Persian-Jewish Winter Traditions, a short film and beautifully designed digital resource guide from Reboot Studios.

Resources: https://rebooting.com/article/erevyalda/

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #Sephardi #Mizrahi #MENA #Persia #WinterSolstice #Hanukkah