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Diplomatic & Congressional Holocaust Remembrance
Greek Jewish survivor David Baruch gave testimony, and members of Congress and foreign dignitaries – including the ambassadors of Greece, Israel, and Portugal, and the spokesperson for the Japanese embassy – also spoke. Press: The Jerusalem Post , The National Herald, Nieuws uit Joods Nederland en Israel .
PFIZER CEO DR. ALBERT BOURLA shared his Greek Sephardic Jewish family’s story of tragedy and survival during the Holocaust at SHIN-DC’s annual Congressional Holocaust Commemoration for the first time ever publicly. See U.S. Department of State. Press: The Jerusalem Post , Kathimerini, Pappas Post, Greek Reporter, UW News, and Morocco World News.
Author Karen Batshaw joined SHIN-DC and the Embassy of Greece in Washington to speak about Greek Jews, the Holocaust and WWII, with opening remarks by H.E. Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the U.S.
Diplomatic & Congressional Concerts
In 2023, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism, joined us for SHIN-DC’s Annual Mimouna Festival of Good Neighbors at the Smithsonian, featuring Moroccan Israeli liturgical artist Shir Ifrah, with partners the Embassy of Israel and the Embassy of Morocco, other members of the diplomatic community, the Offices of DC’s Mayor and the Governor of Maryland, and over 1,000 diverse participants. Press: JTA, Arutz Sheva, Times of Israel.
The Embassies of Israel and Morocco in Washington hosted their first-ever joint Mimouna celebration in partnership with SHIN-DC and the Smithsonian Institution. Press: The Jerusalem Post.
Cosmopolitan Journeys Through Greek Music – Part I: Greek, Iraqi and Sephardic musicians discuss melodies that are shared in their respective traditions and demonstrate the connections between these traditions through musical performances, with opening remarks by H.E. Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the U.S. Download the lyrics here. Press: The National Herald and Tornos News.
Diplomatic & S&P Festivals
October 2020, the Embassy of Portugal to the U.S. partnered with SHIN-DC to bring together Portuguese-Jewish communities from Philadelphia to Lisbon. Domingos Fezas Vital, the Portuguese ambassador to the United States, said that the Inquisition was a mistake. The region “subjected itself to what we would call today, a form of brain drain,” he said. Press: The Jerusalem Post.
Community Engagement
March 2021, The NAACP, SHIN-DC, and a coalition of partners and allies for justice and equality honored FOUR WISE DAUGHTERS for Women’s History Month, as we launched an initiative aimed at working together on issues that relate to our diverse communities. Our inspiration came from Maud Nathan – a Sephardic voice – who said, “Prejudice produces humiliation which is not easy to bear. And the sad part is that the nature becomes warped and the spirit of kindliness and friendliness is changed into bitterness and resentment. To live in peace, there must be mutual confidence, trust, cooperation, no antagonism.”
June 2021, Dr. Laura Leibman shares from her new book Once We Were Slaves, the story of prominent American and Sephardic Jew Sarah Brandon Rodrigues who was born a slave in Barbados in 1798; with participation from U.S. immigration attorney Lauren Levy (a multiethnic and Caribbean/Jamaican Jewish woman of color who identifies as a citizen of the world), Neal Rechtman on behalf of the Jewish Community of Barbados, and H.E. Noel Anderson Lynch, Ambassador of Barbados to the United States. Caribbean music from Lionel Belasco who came from a Sephardic family of Barbados.
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Ladino Concert at the Embassy of Bulgaria, August 2014
Feat. Dr. Judith Cohen, with a Guest Appearance by the late Flory Jagoda.
Ladino Concert at the Embassy of Bulgaria, August 2014
Feat. Dr. Judith Cohen, with a Guest Appearance by the late Flory Jagoda.
DC Mayor Bowser officially proclaimed Monday, April 5th, 2021 as "MIMOUNA - A FESTIVAL of GOOD NEIGHBORS DAY IN WASHINGTON"
SHIN-DC Mimouna at the Smithsonian with the Embassy of Morocco 2019
SHIN-DC Mimouna at the Smithsonian with the Embassy of Morocco 2019
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