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An Evening of Mizrahi Culture
Wendsday, July 20th
6:00pm
Osher Marin JCC
200 North San Pedro Rd
San Rafael, CA
In honor of the installation of Erella Teitler's exhibition, Not Forgotten, JIMENA, The Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco, and Osher Marin JCC are hosting a special evening of Mizrahi culture. Join us for a buffet dinner of Israeli food, infused with Iraqi flair, by
Dina's Catering, and a film screening of
The Dove Flyer: Farewell Baghdad
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Dinner. 6:00PM $15 per person, RSVP Required by July 15th
Film 7:00PM FREE
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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Castro Theatre
Sat, July 23 1:50PM
Cinearts at Palo Alto
Mon, July 25 8:20PM
Roda Theatre
Sat, July 20 2:10PM
Smith Rafael Film Center
Sat, Aug 6 2:05PM
A semi-autobiographical feature film debut from writer/director Yuval Delshad, it depicts three generations in the Morgian family, Persian immigrants from Iran to Israel, as they eke out a meager living on their small turkey farm in the early 1980s. Years earlier, the grandfather, known as Baba, thrusts the farm upon his youngest son Yitzak after his eldest, Darius, runs away to America. Now grown, Yitzak threatens to force the farm on his 13-year-old son Moti.
Castro Theatre
Sat, July 23 3:50PM
Cinearts Palo Alto
Sun, July 24 2:15PM
Roda Theatre
Sat, July 30 12:00PM
Smith Rafael Film Center
Fri, August 5th 4:20PM
What is Israeli cuisine? Michael Solomonov (Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking, 2016 James Beard Cookbook of the Year) explores a diverse world of food drawn from more than 100 cultures. Chefs, farmers, vintners, fishermen, cheese makers and home cooks discuss their roots and show their specialties that both preserve and update traditional recipes using global inspiration.
Director Roger Sherman in person in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Subject Michael Solomonov in person in San Francisco.
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IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
August 7-12th
Sheraton, Seattle
1400 6th Ave
Seattle, WA
This year the IAJGS Jewish genealogy conference will take place in one of North America's centers of Sephardic Jewish life - Seattle! The conference is filled with sessions and films exploring the history and genealogy of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Some highlights include screenings of: Song of the Sephardi, The Sephardi Jews and the Pike Place Market, Teiman: Yemenite Music, Barbeque People (Iraq), Three Mothers (Egypt), Morocco: Music of Moroccan Jews, Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey, The Jewish communities of Fez and Salonica, and Flory's Flame (Sephardic).
There will be a variety of talks on a range of Sephardic and Mizrahi themes including a keynote address by University of Washington scholar, Devin Naar. We thank the IAJGS for remaining the largest mainstream Jewish conference in North America that is committed to the ongoing inclusion and exploration of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish life.
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Comprehensive Calendar
Please note that in addition to the events listed in our public calendars JIMENA has a number of private events at college campuses, day schools, and private homes. If you are interested in getting more involved in JIMENA by hosting a program in your community or joining one of our committees, please contact us at info@jimena.org
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JIMENA
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s a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that strives to achieve universal recognition of the Mizrahi refugee experience and vibrant cultural heritage.
Through an eye-witness international Speakers Bureau, Oral History and Digital Experience Program, and Advocacy and Cultural Engagement Initiatives, JIMENA is preserving and sharing the heritage and history of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews.    
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JIMENA Welcomes Shani Winston
We are very excited to introduce the most recent addition to the JIMENA team, Shani Winston. Shani joined JIMENA in June, 2016 as our new Bay Area Program Coordinator. She is looking forward to managing JIMENA events and community outreach in the Bay Area. She will also be overseeing our San Francisco Young Adult Committee and helping with our nation-wide campus programming.
Prior to joining JIMENA, Shani served as the Director of San Francisco State University's, Associated Students Women's Center while also studying as a full time student. She recently completed a public policy fellowship at San Francisco Department on the Status of Women with a focus on gender equality in the workplace. Originally from Southern California, Shani is both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi and has a deep connection to her maternal Moroccan and Iraqi ancestry. She is passionate about preservation of Mizrahi culture and raising awareness to the 850,000 Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Middle East.
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San Francisco and Los Angeles Young Adult Committees Lead JIMENA
JIMENA's San Francisco young adult committee will meet for a summer dinner and planning session on Tuesday, August 9th at 6:30PM. We will be gathering to plan our 2016 Young Adult Mizrahi Commemoration events in addition to our bimonthly Sephardic Speakeasies. New members are welcome! For more information, including location, please email shani@jimena.org
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JIMENA Venice Beach Young Adult Gathering
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We want to thank our friends in LA who recently gathered together for an informational session about our LA Young Adult Board.
We appreciate the thoughtful participation and excitement that emerged during the meeting. Our LA leadership is preparing to kick off our 2017 Young Adult Board in early August and we encourage you to get in touch if you'd like to be involved. Please email farah@jimena.org for more information.
If you'd like to start a JIMENA Young Adult Committee in your city or campus, please let us know! info@jimena.org
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JIMENA Receives Seed Support for Experiential Learning Initiative
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Tehiyah Day Schools Students Participating in a JIMENA facilitated Mizrahi heritage learning session
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We are thrilled to announce that the
San Francisco Jewish Community Federation recently awarded JIMENA a $90,000, three-year seed grant to officially launch our Jewish Multiculturalism and Mizrahi Heritage initiative at several Jewish Day schools in the Bay Area. This program is intended to create a replicable model for Jewish educators (K-12) to adopt and implement experiential learning modules related to Mizrahi and Sephardic heritage. The program provides professional guidance and support from educators with expertise in Sephardic Studies and was successfully piloted at Jewish Community High School of the Bay in 2014 and 2015. Over the course of many years, JIMENA has integrated elements of the program in Jewish Day Schools, synagogues, and campuses and we look forward to expanding the program in California and beyond in the coming years. This work is being developed and implemented in partnership with organizations, educators and schools who have a strong commitment to and expertise in the inclusion of Mizrahi and Sephardic Heritage Studies in Jewish Day Schools. Our ultimate goal is to empower and support educators throughout North America to fully integrate Mizrahi Heritage Studies as a regular component of Jewish Studies curriculum and survey courses.
We are still actively fundraising for the content development portion of the program and we need your help! If you are interested in supporting this initiative, please email sarahlevin@jimena.org or make a donation online today.
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Terra Incognita: The sickening contempt for missing Jewish Yemenite children
By Seth J. Frantzman 
The Jerusalem Post
June 27, 2016
Between 1948 and 1954 more than a thousand Jewish children went missing. Their parents, who were poor and had just gone through the trauma of immigration, claimed the children had been kid- napped and put up for adoption. Last week the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to open up more than 1.5 million pages of archival documents that include minutes from meetings investigating the matter. "The time has come to know what happened and to do justice," the prime minister said.
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Algeria to Expropriate Jewish Cemeteries
JSS via Point of No Return 
June 24, 2016
For the last ten years, and with France's approval, the dead are being exhumed and reburied in mass graves. On 26 May 2016, the French foreign ministry published
an obscure announcement regarding cemeteries in Algiers, Oran and Annaba that are to be amalgamated.
Families who wish to have the remains of their loved ones transferred to France have six months to do so at their own expense. They must notify the French consul-general in Algiers, Annaba or Oran.
However, JSS points out, applicants will be deterred by having to produce documentary proof of the exact location of their relatives' graves. Most Jews will have left with nothing. They might not even recall which cemeteries their antecedents were buried in. The memory of their parents will be destroyed and their bones stuffed into a mass grave without regard for Jewish laws of burial.
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The L
ast Jews of Tunisia
By Daniella Cheslow 
Radio Free Europe
June, 2016
Djerba, Tunisia --Cracked tombstones litter the perimeter of the cemetery behind the Great Synagogue that anchors this tiny Tunisian Jewish community, but it was not vandals who broke them.
Hundreds of Jews who moved away over the past five decades have taken their relatives' remains with them, leaving only these slabs of Hebrew-inscribed marble behind.
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New Sefer Of The Ben Ish Chai Printed From Manuscript Found In Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Offices
By David Steger 
Matsav
June 24, 2016
Two volumes of the Ben Ish Chai's hitherto undiscovered droshos were printed for the first time this week in two beautiful volumes titled Birkas Horeiach. The manuscript was discovered by American troops among 2,700 seforim and tens of thousands of Jewish documents in a flooded basement of Iraq's intelligence headquarters after Saddam Hussein's downfall in 2003.
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Amidst War and Devastation, Prophet Nahum Respected By All Faiths
By Benjamin Kweskin 
Philost Project
June 13, 2016
The picturesque Chaldean-Assyrian village of Al-Qosh, known for its stone houses and ancient monasteries, rests at the feet of the Bayhidhra mountains about thirty miles north of IS-occupied Mosul. Surrounded by many Christian and Ezidi (Yezidi) villages, it is a scenic 45 minute drive from the most important Ezidi shrine at Lalish.
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Turkish Jews Proudly Defend Last Sephardic Homeland - Even as Some Flee
By Josefin Dolsten 
Jewish Daily Forward
May 28, 2016
A prominent Turkish-Jewish businessman and politician, Cefi Kamhi is chairman of an Istanbul-based consulting agency and television distribution company. He heads three councils for Turkey's foreign economic relations board, and represents his home country in the European Jewish Parliament. His wife is Muslim. Yet after several assassination attempts, Kamhi is under 24-hour police protection to ensure his safety.
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