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Category Archives: Sephardim
Looking For A Sephardic Cantor?
Yisroel Kituv ([email protected]) emails: Hey! First I’ll present myself. My name is Yisroel Elituv, and I’m an agent of a group of students who learn at a Sephardic cantorship school in Israel. The school exists about seven years already. Our … Continue reading
Posted in Sephardim
Tagged gmail, graduate student, moroccan, music theory, sephardic, shuls
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Should The Sephardim Go To The Back Of The Bus?
Orthodox rabbi and history professor Marc B. Shapiro blogs Nov. 7, 2007: I read about the outrage taking place in Emanuel, where in the local Beit Yaakov Sephardi students are being segregated from Ashkenazim to the extent that the two … Continue reading
Posted in Ashkenazim, Marc B. Shapiro, Sephardim
Tagged Ashkenazim, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox rabbi, Sephardim, shas party, tannaim
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AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem Interview Part II
Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Ashkenazim, Greece, Jews, Sephardim, Turkey, Yitzchak Kerem
Tagged active world, area specialists, encyclopedia judaica, gaon, jewish communities, loan fund, march of the living, sephardic world
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American Jewish University Professor Yitzchak Kerem Says The Sephardim Were Discriminated Against With Holocaust Reparations
Part Two I met Dr. Yitzchak Kerem at LimmudLA a few weeks ago. "Yitzchak Kerem is an historian on Sephardic Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been the editor of Sefarad, the Sephardic newsletter, since 1991. He … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Ashkenazim, Genocide, Greece, Sephardim, Turkey, Yitzchak Kerem
Tagged american jewish, diaspora jewry, eastern european jews, ecumenical patriarch of constantinople, encyclopedia of the holocaust, former soviet bloc, hebrew university of jerusalem, holocaust reparations, hovel, jewish university, Sephardim
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Sephardim are rational — Ashkenazim, not so much
Dennis Wilen writes: From an essay in Zeek — A Sephardic Answer to Modern Jewish Identity By David Rabeeya: " . . . Ashkenazic authorities traditionally have placed a “fence around the Torah,” enlarging restrictions in order to be sure … Continue reading
Posted in Ashkenazim, Sephardim
Tagged ashkenazic, Ashkenazim, authorities, dennis wilen, fanaticism, fence, integrity, inventions, irrationality, jew, jewish identity, jewish law, latitude, pesach, quot, radicalism, religious leaders, sephardi jews, Sephardim, Torah
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Praise God On Your Own Time, Buster!
I sometimes go to an Ashkenaz minyan in the evening where this Sephardi guy always insists on yelling out, "Barchu et Adonai Hamvorak!" at the end of Ma’ariv (and by reflex the rest of us respond, "Baruch Adonai Hamvorak l’olam … Continue reading
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