Our initiatives empower educators, students, and communities to preserve Sephardic and Mizrahi heritage while fostering awareness and combating antisemitism.
AIMEE - Advocates for Inclusive Middle Eastern Education
AIMEE is an organization dedicated to improving how the Middle East and North Africa are taught in K–12 schools. It advocates for accurate, inclusive, and nuanced representation of the region’s diversity.
Advocating for Jewish Refugees at the United Nations
The ultimate objective of JIMENA is redress for former Jewish refugees and their descendants in the form of official international acknowledgment, uniformly articulated across all branches of US government policy and mainstream Jewish communal life
Sephardic and Mizrahi Communal Response to Jewish Voice for Peace
In a letter to Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), JIMENA, along with a coalition of Sephardic and Mizrahi synagogues and communal organizations called on JVP to remove all references to Mizrahi and Sephardic history in their organizational literature.
Sephardic and Mizrahi Communal Statement on Academic Research
The past few years have seen an extraordinary flowering of interest in Middle Eastern Jewish life and history. Internationally, the Abraham Accords have opened new opportunities to excavate and reinvigorate Jewish culture and history in Arab nations...
JIMENA has been an outspoken advocate of the IHRA definition for many years. Given the horrific attacks against Israel and the Jewish people, our support took on ever greater importance and we accelerated our efforts.
Supporting U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism
To help advance the Federal Government’s U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, JIMENA curated this collection of lesson plans and educational units on antisemitism and Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.