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Alhambra Monument: Erected to Remember the Expulsion of Spain’s Jews in 1492

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckJuly 16, 2022

On March 31, 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain — Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand — issued the Alhambra Decree, which ordered the expulsion of all practicing Jews. More than half of Spain’s Jews converted to Catholicism — many even before the Alhambra Decree — under the threat of torture and even death, or to…

A Largely Untold Story: Jews Expelled From Arab Lands Following the Establishment of Israel

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckMarch 27, 2022

Generally speaking, Diaspora Jews living under Islamic rule did not suffer from…

Report: Last Three Jewish Families in Yemen Deported by Iranian-Backed Houthi Rebels

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckJanuary 4, 2022

The Jews of Yemen constituted one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, dating back two millennia. That community…

Sephardim and the Nazi Genocide: Jewish Victims Who Are Largely Overlooked Today

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckAugust 19, 2021

Although the vast majority of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis were…

Marc Lamont Hill: Mizrahi Jews Are Really a Subset of Palestinians, Not Part of the Jewish People

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckApril 20, 2021

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (42) is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He’s a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University and the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English, among other things. Lamont Hill was fired from his position as a commentator for CNN after remarks before the U.N.…

Shlomo Hillel: The Man Who Airlifted More Than 120,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckMarch 7, 2021

The ancient community of Jews in Iraq was deeply shaken by the Farhud, a murderous anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad, in June 1941. The State of Israel was founded just a few years later, a development that further endangered Iraq’s Jews. (Iraq was one of five Arab nations that invaded the nascent Jewish country immediately upon…

An Egyptian-Israeli Talks About Why Her Family Left and Her Love for the Egyptian People

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckJanuary 17, 2021

Up till 1948, Egypt was home to an ancient, large, and important Jewish community. With Israel’s War of Independence — following an invasion by Egypt and four other Arab countries — conditions for Egyptian Jews grew considerably worse. That was further exacerbated by the 1956 Sinai War, which involved military action by Israeli, British, and…

J. Daniel Khazzoom: The Life of Jews in Iraq Before He Fled to Israel

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckDecember 17, 2020

J. Daniel Khazzoom (b. 1933) was raised in Baghdad, Iraq. At age 8, he witnessed the infamous Farhud pogrom against the Jewish community of Baghdad, in which hundreds were murdered and thousands injured. Ten years later, Khazzoom left his family and fled to Israel, where he served in the IDF and earned a doctorate in…

‘Dhimmi’ Status: How Did Jews Fare Under Islamic Rule?

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckMay 16, 2020

A frequently heard view from many historians — Muslin historians in particular — has been that Jews living under Islamic rule fared far better than their coreligionists living under Christian rule. While that may have been true to an extent, the bar for comparison set by Christians was abysmally low. During the millennium of Muslim…

When Up to 850,000 Jews Fled Oppression in Muslim Countries

MIZRAHIMBy Lenny GiteckFebruary 21, 2019

Many people know about the Palestinian nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when some 600,000 Palestinians became refugees in surrounding Arab countries while the State of Israel was being established. Far less known is a Jewish nakba, during which an even greater number of mizrahi (eastern) Jews fled Arab countries, mainly under duress. The majority of those…

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  1. 1. a. V-J Day (Victory over Japan)
Paula Ben-Gurion was born in Russia and grew up in the U.S. before she immigrated to what was then called Palestine.

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  1. 2. d. Eight
Founded in 1654, Congregation Shearith Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in the U.S. All four of the very old congregations listed as the possible answer were founded as Sephardic synagogues.

Learn more about the oldest Jewish congregations in America on Wikipedia. >>

 

  1. 3. c. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
According to Wikipedia, La Guardia’s father, “Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed Catholic from Cerignola, Italy. His mother, Irene Coen, was a Jewish woman from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” Therefore, Mayor La Guardia was a Jew according to Jewish religious law.

Learn more about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia on Wikipedia. >>

 

  1. 4. a. Mendel Berlinger
Gefilte fish, from the Yiddish, originally involved removing the inner flesh from a fish, deboning, grounding, seasoning and poaching it, and then stuffing it back inside the fish skin. Wikipedia notes: “This step has been commonly omitted since the 19th century, and the seasoned fish is most commonly formed into patties similar to quenelles [an egg-like shape] or fish balls.”

Learn more about gefilte fish on Wikipedia. >>

 

WOW! FACTS

Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?

We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!

To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
 

Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google

Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia

Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed

Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed

Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed

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