This Week in the Self-Hating Sephardim (4/4)

[David Shasha]

Rabbi Marc Angel and His Rav Muvhak!

 

Yes, it is that time of year again.

 

The Marc Angel Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik yahrzeit tribute!

 

https://www.jewishideas.org/article/rabbi-joseph-b-soloveitchik-judaism-and-modernity

 

On Wednesday, Rabbi Angel sent out this article once again – just to remind us of where his bread gets buttered.

 

I have written a good deal about the anti-Sephardic views of Rabbi Soloveitchik and his progenitor Samson Raphael Hirsch:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1osm0botpWsc_L-yS0ZvOOD-FPmIY75vb7T83BjQI9wE/edit

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19iVeUgl2UVZwYW2dg3hkknljJqfPwcwiApvO3ejCi9s/edit

 

Perhaps even more to the point is the JBS corruption that can be seen in the “Rupture and Reconstruction” article written by his son Haym:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAKy9ek6rd-SvtND_OMlJxGiNvQh1Qj0/view?ths=true

 

Here is my discussion of the racist article:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NBCYyz07l0iTs34hfKZuCZ9croAiB8Mb-JK4Gx9BOFE/edit

 

Angel’s London ally Rabbi Joseph Dweck had a strange reaction to “Rupture”; insisting that Sephardim were not Modern in the first place:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BOrUXGLCx9GUx4jpQER9pqSyVgMMe3Sw/view?ths=true

 

And here is my discussion of that article:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d9D5dXU_9WgFa2Chna1m_byzPUe1WaW3VbR1Qk_zQWs/edit

 

Like Dweck, Angel sees Modernity as European only:

 

The modern era in the Western world has witnessed numerous assaults on the patterns of traditional religious life. Science has changed the way people think; technology has changed the way they live. Autonomous, human-centered theology has come to replace heteronomous, God-centered theology. Rationalism and positivism have constricted metaphysics. Respect for authority and hierarchies has been replaced by an emphasis on individuality and egalitarianism. The challenges of modernity are symbolized by such names as Darwin, Schleiermacher, Freud, Einstein, Ayn Rand.

 

Sadly, Angel has allied himself to the very White Jewish Supremacy that has sought to erase Sephardim from Jewish intellectual and religious life today.

 

And he is proud to do so!

 

ASF and Mimouna

 

This is the season of Mimouna; a catch-all for “Bourekas and Haminados” Sephardischkeit.

 

And the Ashkenazim at the ASF want you to know that they are all in:

 

https://www.jewishideasdaily.com/881/features/mimouna/?mc_cid=b382082973&mc_eid=9f39c396e1

 

Jewish Ideas Daily was the precursor of Tikvah Mosaic magazine, and Aryeh Tepper, publications editor at the ASF, is pure Zalman Bernstein Straussian:

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/aryeh-tepper/

 

https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Minds-Conservative-Politics-Maimonides/dp/1438448449

 

Mimouna is just more Orientalist claptrap; Bread and Circuses to keep Sephardim quiet.

 

 

 

 

 

David Shasha