‘The Hate Around Us’ exhibit at the Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum-FIU 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

January 2024 — July 2024 Hatred is perhaps the oldest of human emotions, forming the basis of much of our recorded history since the biblical story of Cain and Abel. One particularly virulent form of hatred stands out for its uncanny ability to adapt to varying cultures and historical conditions: antisemitism, the hatred of the Jews. […]

Event Series Jews of India

Jews of India

Jewish Museum-FIU 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

India is known for its antiquity and modern high-tech. Spirituality and Bollywood swagger. Bustling cities and pristine nature. A cultural kaleidoscope that’s the world’s largest democracy. But what’s typically not known is India’s long history as one of the most hospitable homes in the Jewish diaspora. For centuries, its three distinct Jewish communities – the Cochini, […]

Event Series Operation Moses

Operation Moses

Jewish Museum-FIU 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, United States

On November 19, 1984, Tudor Parfitt, an FIU professor, arrived in Sudan. He had been sent by the London-based Minority Rights Group to investigate reports that the Ethiopian Jews or Beta Israel as they called themselves, were being poisoned by Christian Ethiopians in the refugee camps. The camps had sprung up along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border to provide […]