Please join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami Sunday December 4, 2022, at the Jewish Federation 4200 Biscayne Blvd. 11:00 am, for the program Voices from Jewish Refugees of Islamic Lands. The program commemorates Yom Haplitim, the day designated by the Israeli Knesset in 2015 to acknowledge the expulsion of more than 850,000 Jews from the Arab world during and after the formation of the modern State of Israel and to honor the survivors.
The program will feature
audiovisual presentations, remarks from community leaders, and testimony from survivors
of the expulsion. The moderator and
keynote speaker will be Professor Henry Green, Professor of Religious Studies
at the University of Miami and founding Director of the Sephardi Voices digital
archive. Other scheduled speakers
include Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniela Cava Levine, Consul General of Israel
in Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Foundation
Director Scott Kaplan, and survivors Michael Sabet and Elise Diaine.
This event is cosponsored by
the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Sephardi Voices, Miami-Dade
County, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Consulate of Israel in Miami,
and Anu- the Museum of Jewish People (Israel).
Please RSVP no later than
November 30, 2022 – you may register online with JGSGM.VPProgramming @gmail.com
More information at www.jgs-miam.org
