
Vancouver Hillel hosted Regina Waldman, head of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Gina screened the moving film The Forgotten Refugees, about the 900,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa who have been made refugees in the past six decades. The film provides an outline for one of the least known but vitally central realities in contemporary Middle East history. Her personal story of escaping anti-Jewish street riots in Libya after the Six Day War is moving, emotional and beautifully told. Hers is a story that needs to be heard and she is such a charismatic individual that students felt a bond with her immediately.
