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New Jewish Narrative
#350: Linguistic Justice: How Language Shapes Accessibility in East Jerusalem with Lissan
45 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2025 at 3:21 pm.
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NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined here by Aliza Schoffman Land and Sirin Smoom from Lissan. Lissan, Arabic for language or tongue, advances a vision of a bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Jerusalem by promoting linguistic justice and equal access to basic rights and services for all Jerusalem residents through Hebrew language instruction to East Jerusalemites.


Learn more about Lissan's mission: https://www.lissan.org/?lang=en

Lissan's current programs: https://www.lissan.org/our-work?lang=en

More about New Jewish Narrative: https://www.newjewishnarrative.org/