#350: Linguistic Justice: How Language Shapes Accessibility in East Jerusalem with Lissan
Aug 14, 2025•46 min
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Episode description
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/
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