ICYMI: A New “Sephardic” Leadership Initiative: The JIMENA Ashkenazi HASBARAH Dominance is Still Dominant!
David Shasha
A New “Sephardic” Leadership Initiative: The JIMENA Ashkenazi HASBARAH Dominance is Still Dominant!
Is it really surprising that Sarah Levin and her HASBARAH Sephardi-hating JIMENA is involved with yet another Sephardi fraud?
Another Sephardi Leadership Initiative!
It gives us yet another chance to review the myriad ways in which White Jewish Supremacy Institutional Intersectionality works to undermine Sephardic continuity:
https://sephardicstudy.org/leadership
We have seen it all before.
The Connect-the-Dots is classic.
Ty Alhadeff:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/f0Fs9NKPvOg/m/E7MN8Z-qBgAJ
Which connects us back to UW and Devin Naar:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/rlu0vCildLk/m/oKigA5pkAQAJ
To Dr. Mijal “I really want to be Bari Weiss” Bitton:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T5hwSK5C4N8Vd50UYMptCy1jmk5LSyJbIUEh-Lq6_s8/edit
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/SOYiusTtXBU/m/8I_VO4LqBgAJ
Back to JIMENA Sarah Levin, a real eJP favorite:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzRZtYI1amnNyGM47ny41p_A32xToEQJPZyUUimzrbI/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs
JIMENA is right there at the very head of the Neo-Con White Jewish Supremacy world in the battle against Gavin Newsom and the California Ethnic Studies curriculum:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SBkVBFplCWMowuOs6V_0aJ1ZDh6JQd8vtwz22A_xdvA/edit
You will want to look at the massive list of prominent self-hater names on their Advisory Committee, many of which should already be familiar to you:
http://sephardicstudy.org/sephardic-study-advisory-committee-sephardic-advisors
Rabbi Marc Angel:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DPCfokksdzUO2iAO1GD-u8B2iNzhnJYmMjlYrC3EtIo/edit
Carole Basri:
https://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/justice-for-jews-from-arab-countries-b.html
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/ggJAFoCD7us/m/llz_Gl0BAgAJ
David Suissa:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c1l0_eK349whup0o6s-Gy_dtWeVCZVQOZC3Q-UFwSQM/edit
David Dangoor, lay head of the Tikvah ASF:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cKispiXs6t14GfQlUw764iNnX6XZTdc9YzMU8LhwHc/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jkws0yY4GqDLXTeGt04TGOjB2GFlpuFlO7kkwpRlmNE/edit
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/LL_Xt1-i9GU/m/CXSPA4wSBgAJ
Rabbi Rolando Matalon:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BPpMs591RzxIIwcH0Lrfbevopl7KtG3p1BA7ohbDM4/edit
Rabbi Joseph Beyda of the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvgd94a2OB84vBnKwa8M8ams-vhm1x2vaXoMl8f3jA0/edit
And, last but not least, Rabbi Elie Abadie, servant of the Gulf Trumpscum Ashkenazi Supremacists:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/mlhpkkDxx7U/m/KrOo8ExVCAAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Xfe27J4ureU/m/8KwG7ZeoAwAJ
Abadie is all about “Gefilte in the Gulf”!
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/cWKlqclIrOg/m/QKLltd_-BgAJ
The very carefully-chosen SLI machers represent many Ashkenazi racist institutions.
Milken:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielle-yael-mokhtarzadeh-960912123/
San Francisco Jewish Community Federation:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danit-trau/
Jewish Federation of Greater LA:
https://www.heyalma.com/author/donna-maher/
American Jewish Committee:
https://sabasoomekh.com/about/
https://www.ajc.org/bio/Regina-Friedland
Jim Joseph Foundation:
https://jimjosephfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rachel_schneider_bio.pdf
Stand With Us:
https://www.standwithus.com/campus-team
The SLI is all about this White Jewish Supremacy Intersectionality, with little if anything to do with the empirical Sephardic community, which has precious little knowledge of its intellectual and religious heritage.
As I have said, and continue to say, it is all about the Ashkenazi stranglehold over our community, which determines what we think, how we speak, and how we are permitted to be represented in a Jewish world that wants nothing to do with us.
Send in your checks to Ty Alhadeff and Sarah Levin today!
David Shasha
A new fellowship aims to connect and support Sephardic Jewish professionals
By: Lev Gringauz
The Sephardic Leadership Institute (SLI) has started running the first national cohort of its Sephardic Leaders Fellowship, a six-month program to help support and build a network of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish professionals.
The fellowship will “provide lectures and talks and discussions about issues pertaining to Sephardic, Mizrahi Jews, the Jews in general – but specifically through a Sephardic lens,” Ty Alhadeff, SLI’s director, told eJewishPhilanthropy.
Topics for the fellowship include “Where do Sephardic Jewish Americans fit in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)?” and “Sephardic Jews as an Intersectional Bridge,” as well as antisemitism and Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in Israel.
The institute, launched in July with funding from the Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund (JCRIF), a coalition of Jewish funders that came together at the beginning of the pandemic, is a project of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA), a Bay area nonprofit that aims to educate about Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. SLI’s focus on DEI comes after JIMENA successfully lobbied for Jews to be included in California’s Ethnic Studies model curriculum, which the state adopted last year.
The fellowship program was piloted last year as a local initiative between JIMENA and the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation to connect Bay Area professionals and increase Middle Eastern and North African representation in Jewish organizations.
Now, Alhadeff hopes that the national scale of the program – with 20 participants across 10 states (and Toronto) – will create stronger educational opportunities for Jewish professionals. For example, Alhadeff points to what participants might learn from his native Seattle, where a Sephardic community has thrived for more than 100 years, about how to represent Middle Eastern and North African Jews in smaller communities.
“It’s been interesting to reach out to people across the country [who] don’t really have the institutional framework, and to see how communities like Seattle might be able to offer guidance,” Alhadeff said, with different lessons to take from the sizeable Syrian Jewish community in New Jersey or the Persian Jewish community in L.A.
Though the fellowship uses the terms Sephardic and Mizrahi, participants come from a range of backgrounds that don’t fit neatly into any one definition, like Carribean Sephardic, Bukharian, and Arab-Jew.
“Who likes using the term Mizrahi? Does that include people that are in the Maghreb in North Africa?” Alhadeff said, using the Arabic term for northwest Africa while relating some of the questions raised in the fellowship. “How far does the East go? Does that include the Bukharian Jews? So these are all good questions.”
Some fellows are Ashkenazi, and were accepted because they work at Sephardic organizations like The Sephardic Foundation on Aging. “They want to make sure that Sephardic culture is being represented within the institutions, whether or not they’re actually Sephardic themselves,” Alhadeff said.
The SLI will also be running the fellowship for a cohort of campus professionals beginning in February. Alhadeff sees the program as another way to educate Jews more broadly on a variety of issues, with Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews having much to offer the predominantly Ashkenazi North American Jewish community. He hopes fellows will help their organizations implement more Sephardic content, and give Sephardic views more prominence in organizations such as Hillel International and the pro-Israel group StandWithUs.
“Whether it’s on topics of antisemitism, or being a persecuted minority, or relationships to Israel, it might be interesting to learn from Lebanese Jews or Iranian Jews, or the Jews from Istanbul, who had, let’s say, 500 years of relative stability compared to the rest of the Jewish landscape,” Alhadeff said.
From eJewish Philanthropy, September 6, 2022