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Sunday, September 30, 2018

A Yemenite psalm for Simhat Torah


The climax  of the High Holidays is Simhat Torah, when Jews rejoice at  having been given the Torah - the five books of Moses. It marks the end of the Torah reading cycle. They will begin all over again with the first chapter of Genesis.

It is customary to chant Mi Pi El (from the mouth of the Lord)  while dancing around the synagogue - or in the street - with Torah scrolls.

There are many different versions of Mi Pi El. Here is a Yemenite version by the famous performers  Meydan Tasa and Zion Golan.



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Friday, September 28, 2018

Climbing the Yemenite palm tree






Some of the Torah scroll silver filigree finials and casings and other artefacts on display at the Yemenite Heritage Center

Rehovot is a town in central Israel known for its Weizmann Institute. But now it might also become famous for its Yemenite Heritage Center.

The Center, opened in 2017, is a handsome three-story building housing exhibition space, cafe, library, classrooms and a semi-circular auditorium.

The Center focuses on the aliya of the 50,000-member Jewish community from Yemen. A film hammers home the message that Yemenite Jews had been ascending to the Land of Israel since the 16th century.  Yemenite Jews even preceded the first modern Zionist immigration of the late 19th century from Russia. They called the wave of immigrants arriving in 1881   'I will climb the palm tree' (Song of Songs, 7:9). The journey was not without its tribulations. The Jews found themselves shipwrecked on a Red Sea island until they were rescued by sailors on a Jewish-owned ship. On arrival in the promised land they endured untold  hardships. But today Yemenite Jews are a lively and integral part of society making a vital contribution to all walks of Israeli life.

There are some choice examples of the signature filigree work made famous by Yemenite Jewish craftsmen, but the exhibition space is mostly composed of photographs.  Visitors can take photos  dressed up  in traditional Yemenite costume. There is a timeline of the history of the Yemenite community through the ages, but the Center could do with a visual exposition of the origins of the community and  conditions for Jews under Islam.
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

400,000 Iraqis visit Israeli Facebook page

The growing love affair between young middle class Iraqis and Israelis of Iraqi origin has been fostered by social media. Over 400,000 Iraqis follow 'Israel speaks Arabic', an official Israeli Facebook page, out of a total of a million and a half Arabic-speakers. Yet Iraq has treated its Jews abominably from the 1940s on.  Linda Menuhin Abdel Aziz examines this curious phenomenon for the Washington Institute:

And as time went on, Iraqi policies continued to put Jewish lives at risk. In 1969, nine Iraqi Jews were executed in Baghdad’s Liberation Square after being falsely accused of spying for foreign entities, and the government declared a national holiday on the execution day. Moreover, during that period, merely uttering the word “Israel” was sufficient grounds for detention.

 In light of this history, the apparent open mindedness of Iraqi social media users’ toward Israel is a phenomenon worth exploring. One factor that may have contributed to the change in Iraqi public opinion is a growing realization in Iraq that Israel is not the enemy. Although Iraq has traditionally supported the Palestinian cause, interactions on Facebook indicate that Iraqis have come to believe that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the responsibility of the two feuding parties and that the conflict does not mandate an overall hawkish policy toward Israel.

In addition, many Iraqi intellectuals have underscored the role that diverse ethnic components played in the history of Iraq, particularly the role of the Iraqi Jews in building modern Iraq in the first half of the twentieth century, and the impact of the absence of this component on Iraqi identity. Moreover, it seems that many Iraqi social media users think that Iraq could benefit from Israeli technology.


Tsionit Fattal Kuperwasser, Iraqi-Israeli author, whose Pictures on A Wall book was exhibited at the Baghdad International Book Fair

 However, it is not only rational calculations that have led to the apparent shift in Iraqis’ perception of Jews and Israel, but also a sense of nostalgia, which is reflected in a number of books now available in Iraq whose subject matter is Iraqi Jews, and which conjure the sense of a mutual history. This year, translated versions of books such as The Conflict of Identities in Iraq, written by a group of Israeli researchers, and The Pictures on The Wall by Israeli-Iraqi author Tsionit Fattal were exhibited at the Baghdad International Book Fair. Such works have the power to overcome language barriers and establish a new line of communication between contemporary Iraqis, many of whom have never met a Jewish person, and Jews of Iraqi heritage. The formation of dialogue between two populations whose nations are not engaged in diplomatic relations is highly interesting considering the fact that such intimate communication does not exist between Israelis and citizens of Egypt and Jordan, where a formal peace treaty exists at a state level yet there little interaction exists at the popular level.

 However, despite these winds of change, serious challenges to the growing rapprochement remain due to Iran’s interference in Iraq and its efforts to curry favor with Iraqi politicians, which has fueled and cultivated anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. It is noteworthy that this hostile policy is paralleled in Iran’s calls for the annihilation of Israel as a vital goal. Opponents of the idea of establishing normalized relations with Israel also find its efforts to use social media suspect, arguing that Israel is exploiting social media to deceive the youth about the comforts of life in Tel Aviv and trick them into thinking that Israel is a modern democratic state.

 Nonetheless, many of the Iraqis following “Israel in the Iraqi Dialect,” are calling on the younger generation of Iraqi Jews to return to their “original” homeland and advocate for returning their property. Others are expressing their desire to see the opening of an actual Israeli embassy in Baghdad in order to reconnect with Iraq’s former Jewish history.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

'My father-in-law was thrown out from Egypt'... 'and mine'....

When David Collier, a popular blogger, Tweeter (@mishtal) and pro-Israel activist in the UK, announced that he was visiting his Egyptian-born father-in-law, his Twitter feed received an outpouring from Tweeters describing the plight of relatives similarly thrown out of Arab countries for being Jews. Here is a selection (with thanks: Carol):



Going to see my father-in-law today. He was expelled with all his family from Egypt and rendered stateless. Their business and property taken by the state. One of almost a million Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab lands. The @UN didn’t say a word.
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    1. Fairbrit‏ @wealdengirl Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @markhumphrys @UN
      My father-in-law was also expelled from Egypt, rendered stateless, his family's business and property taken by the state. He built his life in London UK and now he has to witness the same antisemitism as he did back then. #RelentlessAntiSemitism
      0 replies4 retweets6 likes



    1. Liberalis‏ @liberalisMG Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      My great grandfather was arrested and tortured in Morrocco after attending a meeting to discuss Jewish interests in the country, a few years later they were rendered stateless and refused service in every business in their town, the forgotten refugees.
      0 replies19 retweets24 likes



    1. Batbeth‏ @batbethk Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Same with our family, from Syria.
      0 replies7 retweets18 likes



    1. Filippo Costi‏ @CostiFil Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Same happened to my parents and grandparents in 1959. Never received any help from #UNWRA
      0 replies6 retweets23 likes



    1. Just plain ASTUTE.‏ @MikeXcaberate Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Because Egyptian Govt was so anti Israel at the time. I knew a old guy who worked as electrical engineer on Aswan Dam , had to get out with nothing .lucky to have lived .
      0 replies4 retweets11 likes



    1. Stephen King‏ @KingEconomist Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal
      Here's my mother-in-laws's story (and mine)...
      0 replies5 retweets8 likes



    1. Pamela Goldberg‏ @Pamelajgoldberg Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Similarly my son in laws mother and her family. They started over.....
      0 replies4 retweets8 likes



    1. (((Danny Boy)))‏ @InTheLionsDen_ Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      I'm amazed at the replies to this & how many Israeli Jews have family with similar experiences. My friend Avi has family from both Yemen (rescued in the brilliantly named Operation Magic Carpet) & from Iran who were forced to flee after the Islamic Revolution.
      0 replies4 retweets6 likes



    1. Reigny Day‏ @FourthOfOctober Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Of course, those lands following the religion of peace don't do anything like that so we mollycoddle the poor wee souls when they arrive here to integrate into UK society.
      0 replies2 retweets10 likes



    1. sassy‏ @Sassybaron Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Same happened to my husband’s family - they lost everything
      0 replies1 retweet2 likes



    1. MylesHSG‏ @MylesHSG Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Have a great day David.
      0 replies0 retweets5 likes



    1. Rosemary‏ @its_rosemary_ Sep 23
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      My relatives were expelled from Libya. I think that they’re currently live in the US, but we lost contact with them a long time ago. I wish I could meet them& get to know them. It’s saddens me that I don’t even know what happened to them. You’re lucky to know him. Have fun🌷
      0 replies0 retweets3 likes



    1. Riitu Chugh‏ @junoesque Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Not a peep out of the UN for the Kashmiri Pandits who are refugees in their own homeland
      0 replies1 retweet1 like



    1. (((David Lisbona)))‏ @CanaDaveLisbona Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      Alexandria is my family’s case, zero recognition, they were left with nothing, picked themselves up and started a new life in Montreal.
      0 replies1 retweet1 like



    1. (((David)))‏ @5IYYAR Sep 22
      Replying to @mishtal @UN
      https://www.facebook.com/imarefugee/ 
      0 replies1 retweet1 like





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In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from 10 Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, where some 50 percent of the Jewish population descend from these refugees and are now full citizens, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people.
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities, which can never return to what and where they once were - even if they wanted to. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)

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