by Danny Bryck 1. Tell everyone that you’re making tishpishti for the Mizrahi/Sephardi Community Seder, ishala. 2. Now you have to make it, because ishala is just a figure of speech in a dying language. 3. Go around to every grocery store in the neighborhood...
By Danny Bryck The chill breaks through in earnest It rains The trees hint a few leaves yellowish as if to say, “On the other hand…” My facebook feed fills up with pomegranates My mind makes the same little joke to itself, about what if 5779 could be like 1979...
By Khen Elmaleh First published in Hebrew in Litvin, E.: The Heart is a Lonely Singer: Mizrachi Music in Israel, exhibition catalogue, 2017, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel. English Translation by Tom Pessah. Let’s start with some fair disclosure: I did not grow up with...
By Lesley Williams This is the text of a speech given in front of the Rwandan consulate in Chicago From the book of Esther: : ‘If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my...
This is a Translation of a statement by Palestinian activists originally posted to Facebook by Marzuq Al Halabi: Statement on the refugee issue in Israel : No to deporting refugees and migrants by force and yes to protecting them and respecting their rights and...
>>>>>Click here to sign: Stop Deportations and Grant Asylum to African Refugees In Israel Since 2006, about 60,000 African refugees fleeing persecution in Eritrea and Sudan have come to Israel. Rather than granting them refugee status as is required by international...
We are Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi, and other Minoritized Jews organizing for justice in Palestine and the transformation of our communities. We are organizing in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace.
