Join us for a virtual tour of a Jerusalem neighborhood built by Yemenite Jews who came to Ottoman Palestine concurrently with the First Zionist Aliyah. Discover centers of worship, winding streets, and the strong will that guided these millenarian Jews to rebuild a life for themselves in the Promised Land.

Your presenter for this talk is Richard Sassoon, an Iraqi-American of Jewish heritage who graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Fordham University Law School with a J.D. with an LL.M. in European Business Law from Madrid’s Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He currently works at UnitedLex as a Contract Manager, but has previously held roles at Samsung Engineering, J.P. Morgan, and several law firms. Richard is an American Sephardi Federation Broome & Allen Fellow. Richard has a long-standing interest in diverse cultures and regions, having visited over fifty different countries, meeting various high-level diplomats with Jewish organizations, working on three continents, and handling legal documents in five languages.