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Yom HaShoah VeHagevurah
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day
A time to mourn, remember, and stand united.

Photo of a lit candle and an iron star of David, entertwined with barbed wire.

From JIMENA: Bukharian Jews are a Mizrahi community that adopted Sephardic customs in 1795, when Moroccan Rabbi Joseph Maman Maghribi settled there. The Bukharan Emirate was under the jurisdiction of the Umar caliphate & its laws that granted Jews limited religious liberty only in exchange for payment of a jizya tax. Devastated, community members searched for a rabbi, and Rabbi Maghribi accepted their invitation with the understanding that since his practice was rooted in Sephardic tradition, the community would need to follow.

The Umar caliphate’s laws stayed in effect through 1865, when Tsarist Russia began to conquer the land, although remnants of those laws persisted as late as 1920.

Under the rule of Russia, Bukharian Jews were granted more rights, which benefited their trading businesses. That golden age ended abruptly, when the Soviet Union took hold in Central Asia in 1924.

Read the article: https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/resilience-on-campus/

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An Act of Good Will Softens the Hurt of an Exodus in Uzbekistan

A Bukharian Jewish couple make a decision that spreads love to their vanishing community, teaching their bar mitzvah son an enduring lesson in resilience.

By Manashe Khaimov

Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal
Issue #4 - Resilience Through Transmission

Manashe Khaimov is the founder and CEO of SAMi (Sephardic American Mizrahi Initiative), which fosters Sephardic and Mizrahi life on college campuses nationwide. An adjunct professor teaching Bukharian Jewish History at Queens College, his roots trace back to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where his ancestors lived for over 2,000 years. A fourth-generation community organizer, serial entrepreneur and social innovator, he also founded the Bukharian Jewish Union, AskBobo: The Only Bukharian Online Dictionary, and The Jewish Silk Road Tours™ in New York City. He sits on the National Sephardic Advisory Committee at JIMENA.

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Distinctions is the online journal of JIMENA that elevates the voices and talents of Sephardi and Mizrahi scholars, researchers, artists and activists. Our content challenges traditional narratives about Jewish people and communities, and addresses contemporary Jewish concerns through a classical Sephardi and Mizrahi lens. Our mission is to spread knowledge so that everyone can better appreciate these important distinctions, while providing a vehicle that treats Sephardi and Mizrahi people with distinction.

I’m a Jewish linguist, and unlike some in Congress, I think ‘Ashkenormativity’ is a perfectly fine word.
Sarah Bunin Benor May 2, 2024

The term arose in Jewish discourse around 2014. It has since been used by North American Jews of Moroccan, Bukharian, Turkish, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Persian, Black, Japanese-American & other backgrounds to critique and debate the orientations of various educational, cultural & communal institutions & products...

The Sephardi/Mizrahi advocacy organization JIMENA...has created a toolkit to help day schools... “The schools were built and the curriculum was created at a time when Jewish life was ‘Ashkenormative’ — Ashkenazi Jews catering to Ashkenazi Jews,” JIMENA’s executive director explained. “And there’s a need for the schools to meet the current needs of their student populations.”

Jews discuss Ashkenormativity not to perpetuate the power imbalance, but to counter it..."

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/02/ideas/im-a-jewish-linguist-and-unlike-some-in-congress-i-think-ashkenormativity-is-a-perfectly-fine-word

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I'm a Jewish linguist, and unlike some in Congress, I think "Ashkenormativity" is a perfectly fine word.

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The Fallacies of Israel’s East-West Identity Divide are Dissolving … Gradually

Sephardi? Mizrahi? One of Israel’s leading demographers delves into history to describe who we really are.

By Professor Sergio DellaPergola

Distinctions Journal Fall 2023

Register for the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdeyorTouGNLTbBhyavjogTSHBYP8V-X8#/registration

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Sephardic Demographics

Dr Mijal Bitton in conversation with Professor Sergio DellaPergola.

This session is part of JIMENA's "Voices of Distinction" series, featuring a range of contributors from JIMENA's Distinctions Journal

Wednesday March 13, 2004
11:30 AM PT / 2:30 PM ET

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JIMENA Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa

Publishers Note by JIMENA's Director of Education, Ty Alhadeff

"...The Winter issue of Distinctions underscores these existential questions: What defines “home” for Jews? Will we forever be seen as outsiders? How much persecution is tolerable? When is resistance necessary? Why is preservation of cultural heritage in hostile environments worthwhile?

Personally, I contemplate my family’s history of survival through various exiles, from Babylon, Rome, and Spain to Rhodes, and now Seattle. The uncertainty of what lies ahead, whether it’s a fifth exile or a sense of displacement in the Pacific Northwest, looms large. Ultimately, my physical connection to Israel feels more distant — but my emotional ties have grown stronger — since October 7. I imagine many Jews around the world feel like me here in Seattle, where living outside of Israel seems more like an exile than a diaspora..."

https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/

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