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On the Shamash School and the Jewish Heritage of Iraq

TrendingMore than half of Israel’s Jews descend from the countries in the Middle East and North Africa. They are key to understanding the country’s future.
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JIMENA in The Press
This article in The Forward highlights JIMENA’s leadership in uniting 14 Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish organizations to challenge New York Magazine’s exclusionary portrayal of Middle Eastern identity and advocate for the recognition and inclusion of Jewish communities indigenous to the region.

2026.08.25
JIMENA in The Press
This article examines calls by two organizations for federal scrutiny of a California K–12 teacher training program over concerns about anti-Israel bias and the promotion of antisemitic narratives in public education.

2026.05.13
JIMENA in The Press
JIMENA Executive Director Sarah Levin challenges contemporary narratives about antizionism by drawing on the historical persecution, dispossession, and displacement of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa to demonstrate how anti-Zionism has long been used as a justification for antisemitism.

2026.04.22
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