This Week in the Self-Hating Sephardim (11/15)
David Shasha
Rabbi Sacks and Rabbi Faur
On Tuesday I re-posted my 2003 EDAH Journal article in praise of Rabbi Sacks’ The Dignity of Difference:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/xoky3O7XU5o
Along with it, I posted two articles critical of the rabbi from Haaretz, which detail his moral contradictions:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/ViNnB7rIjps
The following is a collection of Sacks tributes from leaders of the Sephardic community:
https://www.jewishideas.org/article/jonathan-sacks-universalizing-particularity
https://www.facebook.com/RJDweck/posts/3462458807142524
It is thus interesting to note that Rabbi Marc Angel, David Suissa, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, and the Sephardic Community Alliance all came out quickly to pay tribute to Sacks.
None of them have said one word in regard to the passing of Rabbi Jose Faur.
Jewish Currents Arielle Angel is at the “Bourekas and Haminados” Racism Again!
We have already seen how the JC editor believes that Sephardim are dead:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Q82jUjKiHMk/m/EYOCbUQAAwAJ
On Wednesday we got this gem:
It serves as the perfect companion to the Awafi Kitchen Orientalism:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/X1BJSxbbO54/m/OyPcLX0vAAAJ
Indeed, from what we read in the e-mail, Sephardic culture is indeed quite dead!
Hannah Aliza Goldman narrates our marginality in an Israeli modality:
My background is Ashkenazi on my mother’s side and Sephardi
Moroccan on my dad’s side. I was raised by my mom in a predominantly Ashkenazi
community in Washington, DC, but I visited my father’s family in Israel often.
My paternal grandmother Aisha passed away in 2016, and it was only then that I
learned the traumatic
story of how her child was kidnapped from a hospital in 1961. I began to wonder
what other stories I had missed, what I took for granted, and the questions I
never asked.
Two years later, I went to Morocco with my father and visited the villages my
grandparents grew up in. I came back with a hunger, literal and figurative, to
connect to my Savta Aisha, and the most immediate way I could do that was by
cooking Moroccan food. I wanted to collect recipes, and I also wanted to
collect stories. There is so much culture that was suppressed for Jews from
Arab lands, and I wanted to connect to other women and reclaim aspects of our
culture together.
Don’t read a book – find a recipe!
That just about says it all.
Lyn Julius and CAMERA
We already know that Christian racist John Hagee is using Sephardim for his nefarious CUFI purposes:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/3itc3MH_tQQ/m/qP1ruUm5BwAJ
The Mizrahi initiative was led by African-American Pastor Dumisani Washington and his “diversity” coalition:
https://www.cufi.org/impact/leadership/cufi-team/pastor-dumisani-washington/
Washington pops up in the usual places, like PragerU:
https://www.prageru.com/presenter/dumisani-washington/
The New Convivencia is alive and well among the Self-Haters, as we can see in the following Lyn Julius post:
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/11/campus-campaign-launched-for-mizrahi.html
CAMERA is one of the most radical HASBARAH media organizations:
https://mepc.org/speeches/hasbara-and-control-narrative-element-strategy
And they have just discovered Mizrahi Jews!
“One of our goals at CAMERA on Campus is to educate university students on complex and pertinent issues that are either not normally addressed or may have been discussed with inaccurate information,” said CAMERA on Campus international director Aviva Rosenschein.
It is fascinating to see that it is a student campus initiative, as young Sephardic Jews know nothing about their heritage; though they know plenty about Zionism:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/btjM89dS26s/m/zREFSVaqAAAJ
Count another decisive victory for the Ashkenazim who hate us, as they continue to distort and erase our culture and history for their own racist purposes.
Lyn Julius on “Silent” Ashkenazi Jews in Bahrain
The very next day she was at it again:
Indeed, I was struck by the use of the word “silent,” when the basic idea, as we have learned all too well, is that Sephardim are being silenced by Ashkenazim.
As for Ms. Meyers, her confusion is apparently apparent:
As an American and a member of a high-level delegation, I moved easily across lines. I could speak up and be heard in meetings with men twice my age. I ate lunch with the three female Bahrain Defense Force medical officers who attended our meetings, which would have been inappropriate behavior for my male colleagues. I went shopping in the pearl and gold markets in the evening with the guys from the delegation, while black-veiled Bahraini women shopped in quiet malls during the day.
At least she is not a Sephardi!
Orly Wahba is Really into Henry Ford!
I have no idea whether Ms. Wahba is aware that I have been attacking her over her deployment of Anti-Semites and Fascists, but on Thursday she decided to give us Hitler-lover Henry Ford one more time:
https://www.lifevestinside.com/the-daily-kindness-digest-1213/?mc_cid=00bd2296f1&mc_eid=6025c9bfd2
I suppose when someone tells you who they are the first time, you should listen to them.
I do seriously wonder how Jews send her their money.
The Leo Baeck Institute is Doing Sephardic Culture
It is truly impossible to make these things up:
https://www.selma-stern-zentrum.de/projekte/lbsu/index.html
One of the prominent Ashkenazi educational institutions in the world is pitying us:
For a variety of reasons, Sephardic Studies are still underrepresented at European universities. The LBSU of 2021 is therefore designed to connect European and Israeli PhD candidates in the field and aims to create new networks of scholarly exchange and cooperation. PhD students with projects from all epochs and all geographic areas between Iberia and the so-called Western and Eastern Sephardic Diasporas are encouraged to apply. Especially welcome are projects with historical approaches, be they from the fields of social, cultural or religious history, literary studies or the history of knowledge and ideas. We will invite ten participants to present their projects and discuss new approaches to the field with renowned scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States.
Indeed, “for a variety of reasons”!
David Shasha