AJC LA Director Rick Hirschhaut and Assistant Director Saba Soomekh spoke at "The Untold Story of Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands and Iran." It was a pleasure to join Consul General of Israel in LA - Hillel Newman, JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, Former LA Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Iranian American Jewish Federation President Susan Azizzadeh, Rabbi Nicole Guzik and many others for this important event.
Amid rising antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad, AJC has designated Monday, January 6, as #JewishandProud Day. Join us in this worldwide show of Jewish pride.
The son of Pakistani immigrants who lived in suburban Milwaukee, Akhtar, now 45, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first play, “Disgraced,” the tale of an ambitious young New York attorney who attempts to mask his Muslim faith and his ethnic identity, to tragic consequences.
