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JIMENA's
June Calendar of Events
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Memories of Syria
Opening Reception
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Painting by Avraham Shemi
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Oshman Family JCC
Schultz Cultural Arts Hall Lobby
Sunday, September
9th
6:30PM
3921 Fabian
Way, Palo Alto
Free
The Memories of Syria
exhibit, by Israeli artist, Avraham Shemi features vibrant paintings
that recall daily life for the Jewish community of the artist's
native town of Aleppo, Syria.
The opening
reception will feature a 15 minute screening of Forgotten Refugees and
an update on issues involving Jewish refugees by JIMENA speaker, Mr.
Albert Bivas.
The
exhibit is on display from September 7th - November 7th
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JIMENA to present at Justice for Jewish Refugees
International Conference
Jerusalem, Israel
September 9th - 10th
Members of JIMENA's staff and board will participate
in an upcoming conference whose mission is "to raise the profile
of this unresolved chapter in Middle East diplomacy and to examine
the available course of action to advance its resolution".
Organized by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the World Jewish Congress, the conference will open with speeches
by Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Danny Ayalon, Israeli
Deputy Minister for Senior Citizens; Lea Nass, former Canadian
Minister of Justice; Irwin Cotler, JIMENA President; Gina Waldman,
and World Jewish Congress Secretary General; Dan Diker. The
conference will feature workshops and presentations by JJAC, Harif,
JIMENA and a broad range of organizations, journalists, and
activists, working on the issue.
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An Insider's Look at Iran's Turmoil
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Roya Hakakian Photo: Pacal Perich
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San Francisco Jewish Community Center
Thursday, September 27th
7:00PM
Join JCCSF's Art & Ideas and JIMENA for a
discussion with Iranian-American journalist, filmmaker and Farsi poet
Roya Hakakian. Roya recalls her experience of growing up Jewish in
Tehran in her memoir Journey
from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran. Hakakian
will discuss political upheaval in Iran, foreign policy, and her new
book, Assassins
of the Turquoise Palace.
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3rd Civic Action Conference of
30 Years After
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles,
California
Sunday,
October 14th
9:00AM -
9:00PM
JIMENA is
proud to support the fantastic work of our friends at 30 Years After.
We are excited to participate in their 3rd Civic Action Conference
which will bring together Los Angeles's most prominent civic leaders.
Members of JIMENA's burgeoning LA chapter will be on hand to
represent JIMENA and Jews from Arab countries at the conference's
organizational fair.
The mission
of 30 Years After
is to promote the participation and leadership of Iranian American
Jews in American political, civic, and Jewish life.
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The Aleppo Codex: The Scandalous History of
Judaism's Most Precious Book
San Francisco Jewish Community Center
Wednesday,
November 7th
7:00PM
JIMENA is
excited to help welcome AP correspondent Matti Friedman. His new book
is a story of theft, espionage, corruption and a state cover-up
lasting decades. Mr. Friedman reveals the true-life detective story
of the 10th-century annotated Hebrew Bible known as the Aleppo
Codex.
For more information
and to purchase tickets, please click here
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JIMENA and the National Council of Jewish Women
Jewish Women's Conference of Southern California
Diversity Within the Jewish Community, Gina Waldman
Sunday,
November 11th
Los Angeles,
CA
East Bay Chapter of NCW Fall Meeting
Growing Up as a Jewish Girl in an Arab Country, Speaker TBD
Rossmore, CA
More
information to come
This fall,
JIMENA and the National Council of Jewish Women are partnering to
tell the story of Jewish women from Arab Countries. Both
presentations provide a unique opportunity to receive a compelling
insiders perspective of what it means to be a Jewish minority in both
the Middle East and in North America.
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Stay Tuned For More Fall Programs!
Sephardic in San Francisco Series
Together
with Congregation Anshey Sfar, JIMENA is planning a community wide
Sephardic series for late fall. The series will offer Middle Eastern
cooking classes, movie screenings, Sephardic Shabbat dinner, and
presentations by some of our leading civic leader.
On Campus Events
As JIMENA is
gearing up for the 2012-2013 academic year we are looking forward to
hosting advocacy trainings, lectures, movies screenings, and cultural
events on campuses throughout North America. If you would like to
have a JIMENA program on your campus, please get in touch.
Speakers Training
Let JIMENA
empower your Israel advocacy efforts with the narrative of Jewish
refugees. If you are from the Middle East or North Africa and have a
story to share, or simply want to learn more about the issue of
Jewish refugees in the Middle East you are welcome to our Spekaers
training. Please
let us know if
this is a program you would like to participate in.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR ALL EVENTS! Please email us to get involved.
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JIMENA Oral History Archive at Hebrew University
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Margalit Oved: Life as a Jewish girl in Aden. JIMENA
Oral History
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JIMENA is in
the preliminary phases of donating a copy of its Oral History
archive to Hebrew University's Oral History Division of the Avraham
Harman Institue of Contemporary Jewry. Upon completion the entire
JIMENA catalogue of over 90 testimonies will be available to
researchers and the public through Hebrew University's digital
catalogue and through its youtube page.
"We were impressed by the Oral History Project of
JIMENA, and would like to congratulate you for the achievement of
having collected over 90 interviews in a relatively short period of
time. We are interested to receive a copy of your collection, and
we consider it as a most valuable contribution to our archive"
-Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Academic Director of Oral
History Division & Dr. Margalit Bejarano, Professor Emeritus of
the Oral History Division at Hebrew University's Avraham Harman
Institute
Time is running out! Please help us ensure that the
testimonies of Jewish refugees are documented and preserved before
it's too late. Donate today.
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As the 2012-2013 academic year is
approaching, JIMENA is recruiting student interns. JIMENA Interns
are responsible for advancing the story of Jewish refugees through
the development and completion of an independent, academic project
that is aligned with their area of study. With the help of JIMENA's
Speakers Bureau, interns engage and empower their campus
communities through the implementation of an on-campus program that
ideally incorporates a screening of Forgotten Refugees and a
presentation by a JIMENA Speaker. This fall students from
Hillsborough High School, Yale, San Francisco State University and
UCLA have signed on.
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JIMENA Testimonial Spotlight
"As an educator I am impressed by JIMENA's
ability to impact students understanding of the conflict by
effectively reframing the conversation, in a more naunaced, indepth
manner, which also respects the history and plight of Jewish
refugees to Israel from throughout the Middle East region.
Amazingly, these Jewish refugees from the region and thier
decendents, which comprise the largest group of Israelis, have been
largely ignored. This despite the central role they play in
the history of the conflict, and the profoundly rich culture and
heritage they developed over the thousands of years living in the
region.
JIMENA's
talented and insightful speakers provide crucial first hand
accounts of life and the exodus from the Middle East and North
Africa. This is a powerful tool in helping to shape public
opinion of the conflict in a more balanced manner. JIMENA fills an
important gap in the discourse, especially on college campuses, by
challenging the widely adopted revisionist history of the Middle
East, which ignores the plight of Jewish refugees and mistreatment
of minorities."
-Dr. Charles Asher Small (D.Phil), Director, Institute
for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and
Koret Distinguished Scholar, Stanford University
How Has JIMENA Impacted You?
If you are a student or adult who has been impacted
by the JIMENA narrative, please send us a written or recorded
testimony.
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House members seek recognition for Jewish refugees
from Arab Countries
Yediot Ahranot (Ynet News) 
July 31st, 2012
Representatives
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Howard Berman
(D-CA), Ted Poe (R-TX), Joe Crowley (D-NY), and Bob Turner (R-NY)
introduced bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to ensure recognition
of the plight of the nearly one million Jews refugees who were
displaced from countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and the
Persian Gulf as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict. A statement
of Nadler's offices aid the legislation would also recognize
Christian and other..... Read More
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Canadians behind U.S. bill to help Jews expelled from
Arab countries
By Steven Edwards
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Former Canadian Justice Minister, Irwin Cotler
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The Ottawa Citizen
August
2nd, 2012
Research by former
justice minister Irwin Cotler and other Canadians is at the centre
of a U.S. bill telling the American president to advance the cause
of hundreds of thousands of Jews who were driven from Arab and
Muslim lands after Israel's creation. The bipartisan draft
legislation in the House of Representatives says the plight of
Palestinian refugees has received "considerable
attention" worldwide, and so it would "inappropriate and
unjust" if the..... Read More
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Save the date, even if you're Ashkenazi!
By
Michelle Huberman
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Iraqi Jews arriving in Israel, 1951
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Jerusalem Post
July
19th, 2012
Landmark
news this week: Israel has approved a special memorial day to be
set aside in the Jewish calendar to mark the exodus of Jews from
Arab countries. On this Jewish Refugee Day, students will learn
about the 850,000 Jewish refugees who fled their native Arab
countries since the establishment of the State of Israel. Here at
Harif (the UK association of Jews from the Middle East and North
Africa, we have worked tirelessly with other organisations.... Read More
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Call to Document Jewish Refugees' Claims in Arab World
By Maayan Miskin
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Jewish
Refugees from Arab Countries
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Arutz Sheva
July
18th, 2012
The
Knesset's State Control Committee held a session Wednesday on the
subject of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab
countries who came to Israel in the late 1940s and the early 1950s.
From 1948 to 1956 an estimated 856,000 Jews came to israel from the
Arab world. Of those, around 600,000 were refugees who had been
expelled from their homes in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia,
and Egypt... Read More
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International genetic study traces Jewish roots to
ancient Middle East
By Dan Evan 
Haaretz
August
8th, 2012
A new study
of genetic affinity among Jewish communities has uncovered evidence
of genetic roots among Jews from North Africa that stretch back
2,000 years.
Some
findings are surprising: It turn out that Syrian Jews have more
genetic commonality with Ashkenazi (European) Jews than with other
oriental Jews (Jews from Asian and African lands)..... Read More
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 Calling all Airline Miles!
JIMENA's Speakers Bureau program unites speakers
with audiences all around the world. Donate
your unused airline mileage to JIMENA and
help us reach more people!
Preferred airlines include: American, Southwest, Jet
Blue, United, Continental, Delta, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air
France and El Al.
Please contact Sarah Levin at sarahlevin@jimena.org
or 415-626-5062 with questions.
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JIMENA is
Generously Supported by:
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Kanbar Charitable
Trust
Benhamou Family
Foundation
Francine Gani
Iriving and Varda Rabin Philanthropic Fund
Private donors and philanthropic funds
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