This Week in the Self-Hating Sephardim (11/1)
David Shasha
It Was Big White Jewish Supremacy Week for Mijal Bitton!
The Ashkenazim at the American Sephardi Federation posted an interview with her on the subject of Rabbi Jose Faur:
https://mailchi.mp/asf/sim_oct2020a?e=9f39c396e1
We will of course recall that the ASF publications editor is Aryeh Tepper, a Tikvah Fund Straussian who works to promote his hero’s attacks on Maimonides as a lying and duplicitous cheat:
https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/aryeh-tepper/
https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Minds-Conservative-Politics-Maimonides/dp/1438448449
Strauss was, as I can recall from Faur’s teaching, an avowed enemy of the classical Sephardic-Maimonidean heritage.
The very brief ASF-Bitton interview that is designed, as we will soon see, to appeal to Neo-Con Ashkenazi Jews in its politics and its White Jewish orientation.
Indeed, almost immediately the interview migrated to Tikvah Mosaic magazine:
Note the title well:
An Idiosyncratic Rabbi Who Learned from the Best and Dismissed the Worst of Postmodernism
Faur is “Idiosyncratic,” which we should take as an insult given his loyalty to the Sephardic heritage. But it also takes a pronounced stand on “good” and “bad” Postmodernism.
It is interesting, given that there is now a veritable cottage industry in fake Ashkenazi Orthodox Post-Modernism that utterly ignores Faur:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/JaCGbj6aTNU/m/a_p4YEkuBQAJ
We will of course recall Robert Alter’s epic smashdown of Faur and Jewish Post-Modernism in The New Republic:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1NQdm28qvvXeFJDdkdrYmVVQUk/edit
Indeed, the reason for Faur’s current inclusion has to do with Ms. Bitton’s inclusion in the White Jewish Supremacy, as can be seen from her participation in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s program on the current political situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHX-HTtjCng&feature=youtu.be&mc_cid=48edcda06d&mc_eid=ce188d0296
Bitton has not changed her mind about things, but as she works Neo-Con Tikvah Ashkenazim her profile is elevated and she, like Rabbi Marc Angel before her, will set herself as the Go-To Sephardi, even though she has no real clue what the Sephardic heritage is all about.
And that is just what the Ashkenazi racists want from her.
Joel Wolowelsky and Rabbi Marc Angel: A Mach Made in YU Heaven!
This one will be a little obscure for those who do not live in the Brooklyn Syrian Jewish community, but it is relevant nevertheless:
https://www.jewishideas.org/article/reading-abraham%E2%80%99s-stories
Last Sunday Rabbi Angel reposted an article from his inaptly-named journal Conversations that reinforced his deep and abiding love for the Anti-Maimonidean Sephardi-hater Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveithcik:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/oh-jil6C4c0/m/JxvGvCl8AgAJ
Wolowelsky naturally refers to Soloveitchik’s mentor Samson Raphael Hirsch, another prime Sephardi-hater:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/e0iJfTL3GNo/m/3vDpxMq6BwAJ
And where would we be without Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and his Modern Orthodox Settler Da’as Torah:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NQdm28qvvXSS1iRkhpQk1ZWkE/view?ths=true
And his fake Jewish Humanism:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NQdm28qvvXaXZQd3hKUld2ZHM/view?ths=true
Even as principals have changed over the years, Wolowelsky has continued to oversee the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School in Brooklyn with his iron fist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_B._Wolowelsky
Indeed, for YOFHS alumni Wolowelsky is the White Jewish enforcer of the institution, as we can see in the following SHU posts that do not feature his name, but do represent his Ashkenazi-centrism:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/fqNkqS3zv4w/m/pyYTGcSo97UJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/EMoSaXR3lGA/m/9s4-ss1KAwAJ
As I indicated in that post, the school population has moved from majority Ashkenazi to majority Sephardi, without any substantial change in curriculum.
Wolowelsky keeps a low profile, but his Anti-Sephardic vision remains a constant, as we saw recently when the YOF Elementary School proudly brought in Rabbi Meir Soloveichik as a speaker:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Gm1W7pJHRYI/m/LArV53KjBQAJ
That Angel is pals with him is not a surprise.
ASF Gives Us Maimonides “Bourekas and Haminados” Sephardischkeit!
Last August I made note of ASF’s food education program:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/0tmlKaqqSCA/m/DdfNA9FMAgAJ
Here is the formal announcement of the program:
https://mailchi.mp/asf/announcing-sephardic-culinary-history?e=9f39c396e1
Last Sunday we got Maimonides:
https://mailchi.mp/asf/reminder-sephardic-culinary-history3?e=9f39c396e1
Maimonidean Jewish Humanism is alien to the White Jewish Supremacy that the ASF represents, but we can be proud that he is now relegated to the kitchen.
David Suissa is Still an Ashkenazi Idiot!
I have written reams of articles on David Suissa, the publisher of The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles and a very prominent Self-Hating Sephardi.
Here is my favorite:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/iIXLxvBZExU/m/TiJV8KuVAwAJ
Rather than speaking his mind and taking a side in the current political mess, he attacked the process, calling out “hate” in a duplicitous manner:
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/323895/trump-vs-biden-vote-your-conscience-veto-the-hate/
After reading the article it is unclear to me whether Suissa is even voting in the election.
He has over time shown himself to be fully amenable to White Jewish Supremacy, extremely ignorant of the classical Sephardic heritage, and has now affirmed that he is someone who has no courage when it comes to fighting Trumpworld Fascism and Anti-Semitism, but who also has no courage when it comes to expressing his actual views on Trump.
He is a pusillanimous ex-Sephardi who cowardice shows from every single pore of his being.
David Shasha