{"id":312904,"date":"2025-11-25T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:30:09","slug":"bipartisan-bill-in-congress-would-create-jewish-refugee-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312904\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan bill in Congress would create \u2018Jewish Refugee Day’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States would recognize Nov. 30 as \u201cJewish Refugee Day\u201d under a bipartisan resolution sponsored by two Jewish members of Congress.<\/p>\n

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat, and Texas Republican Craig Goldman submitted the resolution<\/a> on Friday, saying that the day would be known by both its English name and the Hebrew translation, Yom HaPlitim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was proud to introduce a bipartisan resolution with Rep. Craig Goldman to honor Yom Haplitim and Jewish communities forced out of North African and Middle Eastern countries where they lived for millennia after Israel became a country,\u201d Wasserman Schultz said in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. \u201cTheir resilience is inspiring and a testament to the improbable survival of Jewish people throughout history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wasserman Schultz, who was the first Jewish woman elected to represent Florida in Congress, initially introduced a similar resolution<\/a> in 2024, but it expired before the start of the new Congress. She was the sole sponsor of that resolution.<\/p>\n

The holiday, which was first adopted by Israel in 2014<\/a>, commemorates the departure and expulsion of roughly 900,000 Jews from Arab countries following the founding of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n

The date Nov. 30 was selected by the Israel\u2019s parliament, the Knesset, because it follows the date on Nov. 29, 1947, when the United Nations approved the partition plan for the Palestine Mandate and the creation of Israel, which spurred hostility toward Jews in Arab nations.<\/p>\n

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The Departure and Expulsion Memorial in Jerusalem. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n

In 2021, the first physical memorial<\/a> for the mass expulsion was erected in Jerusalem by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.<\/p>\n

The resolution states that Congress \u201ccontinues to support the security of the State of Israel and the Jewish people around the world.\u201d It also calls for \u201ceducational efforts throughout the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa to teach the history of the forced displacement and exile of the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRecognizing Jewish Refugee Day helps to ensure that Congress continues to bring awareness to the history of antisemitism and stand with the Jewish community around the world,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n

The resolution was referred to the House Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce and Foreign Affairs for consideration.<\/p>\n

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