Homeland: Ten Stories, One Israel Unpacked

Alain Checroun has a story to tell. His birthplace, Morocco, was once home to nearly 300,000 Jews. But after the creation of the state of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews made their way to the world’s only Jewish state. Like all immigration stories, Alain’s is a story of resilience. Of challenges. Of triumphs. And ultimately, it’s about the joys of coming home.
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For more information on Mizrahi Jewry in general and Moroccan Jewry in specific, see the following sources:
The Jews of Morocco from the Jewish Virtual Library: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-morocco
Jews Under Moroccan Skies:
https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Under-Moroccan-Skies-Thousand/dp/1935604244
Inside Jewish Morocco (A JDC Video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ti-e2bY0mE
Moroccan Jews Celebrating Normalization Deal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXwF5IAurk
The Story of Israel’s Black Panthers:
https://jewishunpacked.com/the-story-of-israels-black-panthers/
Valley of Tears:
https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX6rsqgAIJMPCwgEAAACB
On the Wadi Salib Riots:
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-06-16/ty-article/july-9-1959-wadi-salib-riots/0000017f-f7b1-d044-adff-f7f9dbb80000 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21h4xqw.9?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Mizrahi Jews:
https://unpacked.education/video/mizrahi-jews-the-jews-of-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
Mizrahi Music:
https://jewishunpacked.com/how-mizrahi-music-took-over-israeli-pop/
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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Galina Abramovich-Azoulay has a story to tell. Specifically, the story of Jewish life in the Soviet Union… and the sometimes-difficult adjustment to a new life in Israel. Along with roughly one million other Jews, Galina’s family joined the Soviet Aliyah, transforming the world’s only Jewish state.
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To learn more about Soviet Jewry, check out these resources:
When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry https://g.co/kgs/qmSq4e
Welcome and Our Condolences: https://go2films.com/films/welcome-and-our-condolences/
Jewish Virtual Library Portal on Soviet Jewry: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-in-the-former-soviet-union 
Is Zionism Racism? Understanding Soviet Propaganda: https://jewishunpacked.com/is-zionism-racism-un-resolution-3379/ 
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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Matan Berenbaum-Williams is Black and American by birth. Jewish by heritage. Israeli by choice. And a Zionist in his soul. His is a story of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places… and of building a home in a place where you belong.
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For more information on the Black Jewish community, check out these resources:
Connecting with Black Jewry in Israel 
The Unknown History of Black Jews in America
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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

As a teenager growing up in Australia, Nachi Gelman didn’t pay much attention to politics. Not even those Oslo Accords that everyone around him seemed to be talking about. But then he met Hadassah Even-Chen. And she pulled him into a life he couldn’t have imagined…
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To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, check out these resources:

Understanding the Oslo Accords

The Rabin Assassination: Podcast, Video


What are settlements? 5-part video series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5


Settlement Evacuations: Yamit, Gush Katif


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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Shaya Silber is many things. Haredi. An IDF soldier. And tired of being constantly stereotyped. In this episode, he peels back the curtain on the vibrant and complex Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel.
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For more on the Haredi community, check out these resources:

The Torah Dome 

Is Studying Torah A National Service?

Haredim and Israeli Society


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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.

Roey Pinto’s family has been in Jerusalem for generations. They’ve lived under Ottoman rule and British administration and finally under an Israeli government. But self-determination takes sacrifice. This is the story of what one family gave up for a state.
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For more information on the events of this episode, check out these resources:

Sykes-Picot and San Remo (1916 - 1920)

The Balfour Declaration (1917)

The Hebron Massacre (1929)

Black Saturday (1946)

The Altalena Affair (1948)

The True Story Behind the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem


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This show was made possible by support from the Koum Family Foundation, the Crain-Maling Foundation, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and the Skolnick Family Charitable Trust.