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Illustrative: Empty desks at a junior high school in California, October 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
February 6, 2021, 4:58 am
Jews as US minority: The controversy over California’s ethnic studies curriculum
Debate rages over creation of study program; Jewish groups objected to 1st draft, saying it didn’t reflect American Jewish experience, advanced some forms of anti-Semitism
By Ben Sales
A hotel can be seen behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli, Libya, September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
December 13, 2018, 5:37 pm
18 groups ask Pompeo to exclude Jewish artifacts from import restriction deals
Organizations say agreements, meant to prevent antiquities theft in Middle East and North Africa, may prevent Jews from retrieving items from their home countries
By Josefin Dolsten
The abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli on September 28, 2011. ( JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
February 23, 2018, 5:06 am
US accused of allowing Libya to keep seized Jewish property
Agreement meant to protect Libya’s heritage actually legitimizes Tripoli’s confiscation of objects belonging to exiled Jews, activists say
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: An undated photo taken in the Jewish quarter of a Libyan city. (Courtesy of JIMENA)
December 3, 2014, 8:11 pm
Jews from Muslim lands: ‘Day of commemoration not enough’
Emigres hailing from Arab countries and Iran head to the Knesset to advocate for more education about their historical narrative
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Gina Waldman, president of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) in Jerusalem, November 30, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
November 30, 2014, 6:00 pm
For Jewish ex-refugees, it’s about recognition, not politics
Having been forced to flee their homelands, Middle Eastern Jews seek redress and insist their claims have nothing to do with the Palestinians
By Elhanan Miller
Jewish artifacts in a Casablanca museum. (photo credit: CC BY dlisbona, Flickr)
May 9, 2013, 4:26 am
Jewish refugees from Arab lands ignored by West, Canadian MPs told
Parliament holds hearing amid push for bill urging peace deal to include plight of one million Jews from 9 Arab countries
Rachel Wahba
March 19, 2013, 12:32 pm
Rachel Wahba
We were Jews in Egypt…and Iraq, and…
Iraqi haroset made of date syrup evokes the lost history ancient communities from throughout the Arab world
Joe Samuels
March 14, 2013, 2:15 pm
Joe Samuels
We left Iraq, we’ll never go back
An invitation to Iraqi Jews to return stirs memories of a terrifying and irreversible escape
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