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Zvi-Gabay

Farhud: Remembering for the future’s sake

By Zvi Gabay On Shavuot, the holiday which Jews around the globe begin celebrating this Tuesday night, Iraqi Jews mark 72 years since the Farhud — the 1941 riots in which 137 people were slaughtered and hundreds more injured. The Babylonian (Iraqi) Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda has inscribed the victims’ names, and Iraqi [...]
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Keeping prejudice under control

The Jewish people deserve the security of a homeland I come from a family of refugees. My mother was younger than I am now when she was forced to flee for her life from the Islamic Revolution of Iran. My mother recalls being forced to sit in the back of her classroom along with a [...]
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wahba

From Jewish Refugees to Dudu Tassa’s Iraq n’ Roll

My father an Egyptian Jew, and I would discuss the same issue every few years until his death in 2006. That’s a lot of years going over the same question: Why doesn’t the Israeli government use us Jews from Arab countries in their refugee equation? Why are we marginalized, not just in Israel but [...]
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Karmel Melamed

All the terror of ‘Argo’ and much more

By Karmel Melamed Times of Israel April 26, 2013 I recently had the opportunity to see the Academy award-winning film “ARGO” and was impressed to see the producers of the film had correctly depicted the horrifying sense of terror and imminent death individuals living in post-revolutionary Iran experienced at the hands of [...]
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Voice of Joe Samuels- Passover in Baghdad

Spring was always a welcomed guest. The winter was wet, muddy and the nights were bitterly cold. The streets in Baghdad’s old quarter (Taht el Takia) where I was born in December of 1930 were narrow, twisted and unpaved. Donkeys were the only mode of transportation. Sanitary conditions were poor or none [...]
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A tribute to Carmen Weinstein

After her unexpected passing – Carmen Weinstein, 82, had been President of the tiny Jewish Community of Cairo for more than 15 years – Jews from Egypt all over the world are worried: Who will maintain the remaining synagogues? Who will tend the Bassatine Cemetery – or what is left from it – and preserve [...]
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Rachel Wahba

Running with Denial– Morsi and Egyptian Jews

The Egyptian government recently overran its own censors in their attempt to ban the screening of a documentary featuring Egyptian Jews who were forced to leave Egypt in the mid-fifties. Luckily, freedom and independent film making prevailed at the end of the day and “Jews of Egypt” received the necessary but late approval to be shown in [...]
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Voice of Henriette Eshkenazi

In this video, JIMENA member Henriette Eshkenazi tells the story of her life in a peaceful and tolerant Sudan and Egypt before she left the Nile region permanently in 1962. Born in 1933, in Halfeyah, a suburb North of Khartoum, Sudan, Henriette’s father owned a restaurant and an ice cream parlor. Her Grandfather was a [...]
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JIMENA interviews L.A.‘s Iranian and Sephardic Jews for new websites

By Karmel Melamed The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles March 31, 2013 Earlier this month perhaps one of the most important efforts to document the tragic loss of life and property that Jews from North Africa and the Middle East experienced during the 20th century took placed here in Los Angeles. Members of the San Francisco-based [...]
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We were Jews in Egypt…and Iraq, and…

By Rachel Wahba TIMES OF ISRAEL March 18, 2013 In my grandmother’s time, making what we Iraqis call silan (see-lan), a syrup, made from dates, was a daylong labor of love. She cooked and stirred and squeezed the dates dry in cheesecloth for hours. I watched how the brown juice turned into thick syrup, [...]
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