#sefardim

[jewish-microwave-laser]

a lot of goyische anti-zionists treat mizrahim and sefardim the way a lot of perisex queer people do intersex people—

you don't actually care about their personal struggles, the histories of their oppression, their desires, or their humanity. you only see them as a rhetorical gotcha you keep in your back pocket

mizrahim and sefardim are not your "evidence" that medinas yisrael is a racist state who wants to turn everybody askenazi. intersex people are not your "evidence" that trans people deserve respect. they're human fucking beings

[sefaradweb]

Historia de Sefarad: judíos y conversos en Guadalajara

🇪🇸 Emisión en Sefardí: El programa presenta investigaciones sobre la Judería de Guadalajara, sus procesos inquisitoriales y su convivencia pacífica en tiempos de las tres culturas. Destaca la historia de Joseph Nehama, un sabio sefardí superviviente del Holocausto que contribuyó notablemente a la literatura y el léxico judeo-español. Además, el programa incluye patrimonio musical sefardí con canciones dedicadas al shabat y otros kantes tradicionales, así como poesía contemporánea de autores sefardíes. Finaliza con el kante "Abraham Avinu" interpretado por Soledad Bentolila.

🇺🇸 Broadcast in Ladino: The program features research on the Jewish community of Guadalajara, their inquisitorial trials, and their peaceful coexistence during the era of the three cultures. It highlights the story of Joseph Nehama, a Sephardic scholar and Holocaust survivor who made significant contributions to Judeo-Spanish literature and lexicon. Additionally, the program includes Sephardic musical heritage with songs dedicated to the Sabbath and other traditional kantes, as well as contemporary poetry by Sephardic authors. It concludes with the kante "Abraham Avinu" performed by Soledad Bentolila.

[sefaradweb]

Salónica: tipo de viejo judío. Centro de Investigación de Colecciones Especiales de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Michigan.

Recién catalogado para nuestra Colección de Postales Judías de Salónica: Salónica, tipo de viejo judío.

Salonique: type de vieux juif. U-M Library Special Collections Research Center DS 135 .G72 T41 T97 1907 

Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Salonique, type de vieux juif. Read more!

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me, Ashkenazi, sobbing and crying: please just tell me if I can buy secondhand glassware and kasher it

Every resource I’ve found: here are at least three mutually exclusive opinions ranging from “no you absolutely cannot” to “you don’t have to do more than just wash them”

[torahtot]

my parents were like yeah we'll have kids who are 1/4 hasid 1/4 misnagid and 1/2 BT surely this will lead to a normal identity

[batshua]

Sefardim don't say "Happy New Year", they say "Tikhle shana v''kileloteha", which means "May the year and its curses come to an end" and I think that's beautiful.

[shrimpsthings]

OC art resesign old art

Sefardim Halo

Rang: Beastmaster

Unit: Hunter

@ilovedainironfoot

[sethshead]

So, far from being a mirror image of the U.S., the Jewish presence and pursuit of self-determination in their people’s ancestral lands — in the context of a competing Palestinian Arab national claim — is unique and complex. When Coates insists on analyzing it in the language of an American paradigm, he disqualifies himself from offering truly useful insight on a deeply painful situation.

Coates also proves to be the ultimate colonialist and American chauvinist by projecting American history and race relations onto a very different place and situation.

Israel and the Palestinians is a religion-tinged land dispute between two peoples indigenous to the land, not settler-colonialists vs. natives. The oppression has never been one-sided: Jews lived in abject and ritualized humiliation under Muslim Arab and Ottoman rule, subject to injustice and regular violence. Zionism was not just the liberation of Ashkenazi Jews in Christian Europe, but of Sefardim and Mizrahim in the Islamic MENA as well. Finally, fear of continued Arab violence is not a threadbare excuse to oppress a marginalized people more harshly, but a real threat posed by heavily armed militaries with clearly stated goals of genocide. There are no valid comparisons to the US.

Coates in “The Message” lacks the powers of observation, critical thinking, imagination, and humility. He has clearly, by his own admission, taken on a subject he neither understands or cares to understand. His 10-day tour is no substitute for study and contextualization. But Coates is American, and Americans are arrogant, believing the whole world shares their history or reflects it. In distorting the Israeli-Palestinian (and broader Israeli-Iranian) conflict to fit his own nation’s narrative, Coates does a disservice to his subject, and to both peoples’ aspirations and suffering.

[hero-israel]

You know, for alleged anti-racists, the lefty anti-Israel crew sure does engage in a lot of "😮 scary savage desert brown people" fear mongering with regard to Israelis. No wonder they go to such trouble to call all Jews, even Mizrachim and Sefardim, white Europeans.

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[grecoromanyaoi]

✌☯️☪️

✌️ - answered

☯ : what do you love about your language? I love how ancient it is + how expressive and floral and poetic it is + how fun and easy it is to create new words from existing onew

☪ : what do you hate about your language? the strict gender rules + how messy it is to try and translate/import social justice language good lord (like 4 example u cant rly say 'ppl of color' in a way that isnt 'colored ppl'. so ppl usually use nonwhite or specifically mizrahim/sefardim/nonashkenazi instead poc)

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

is keeping the laws of niddah difficult? I understand not touching for 7 days while on one's period but the extra 7 days after one's period ends seems so difficult.

It's VERY hard as someone whose primary love language with her husband is touch, but mitzvos aren't necessarily supposed to be easy. And if it's not hard to refrain from all physical contact with your spouse for an extended period of time that's probably not the best sign.

I will say a few things though:

In general I'm not a fan of romanticizing mitzvos, because that makes it sound like the point is how ~beautiful~ and ~spiritual~ the mitzvah is - and so what if you don't feel that? What if it's not like that for you? Do you just give up on it? Obviously it's very nice if someone does feel that way, but not every mitzvah is going to be sunshine and roses for every person, different people struggle or excel with different things, and it's important to keep the focus on the fact that we do these things Because Hashem Said So and not because they feel nice (even if they do feel nice). That said, in this case I do see a lot of truth in the cliché kiruvy way of selling taharas hamishpacha that not having access to each other 24/7/365 allows an element of renewal to the physical side of the relationship that wouldn't be there otherwise. But you have to go through the difficult separation to get there. And if the separation were easy, it wouldn't have the same impact.

As a minor note of correction, it's a minimum of 5 days for the period (4 for at least some Sefardim I believe) and then the 7 clean days. Some women do take longer than that for the period to stop to the point where they can start the clean days, though, so it depends.

If you're not living it, it looks from the outside like you're perpetually going to be ≈2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. The truth is though that for many people the proportions end up looking a lot different from that for significant portions of their lives. Pregnancy is 9 months of no niddah. After postpartum bleeding ends, many breastfeeding women don't get a period for quite some time. And nowadays with various forms of hormonal birth control available, women can sometimes choose to skip their periods for months at a time. So realistically a woman in her childbearing years who is not experiencing a form of infertility that includes monthly periods may be niddah much less often than you might think.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

on the shabbat night of august 23, 1929, and into the following day (18 av 5689), riots broke out in the city of hebron (khevron/al-khalil) in response to disinformation spread that jews in british mandate palestine were going to take over the haram el-sharif/temple mount [1], which was building off a feeling of societal imbalance following the recent influx of ashenazim who had emigrated there to attend the sladboka yeshiva four years before [2]. this disinformation was fomented by outright calls for violence by many religious and bureaucratic leaders of the area [3]. rabbi ya'akov slonim and a sefardic rabbi named franko tried to ask for help in the hours before, fearing the worst, but they were turned away [4]

the massacre began with arab youths throwing rocks at a group of jewish yeshiva students, with the first death occurring that night when some of those youths broke into the yeshiva to find shmuel rozenholtz, age 23, alone and studying, and killed him as he read [5]

the group went house to house, killing and mutilating and raping as many jews as they could come upon. at one point, they approached the son rabbi slonim, eliezer dan slonim, and told him that if he agreed to hand over all the ashkenazi yeshiva students who were sheltering in his house, then they would spare the sefardim from their attacks [6]. slonim, who was well known in the community for being an activist for improving the relations between the arab and jewish populations in the region, responded "we jews are one," and refused [7]. he and about 40 other jews (who had been davening (praying) at the time) were killed in that home [5]

at the end of the massacre, almost 70 jews lay dead (the counts are usually either 67 or 69, depending), and countless more were gravely wounded and raped, and many were left with life-altering mental and/or physical injuries from the event. this event marked the end of the mostly peaceful coexistence between arabs and jews in the city (though it was by no means a utopia) that had gone on for hundreds of years. it is important to remember, however, that "some 400 jews were saved by their arab neighbors" [8]

may the memories of those whose lives were lost on that day, and of the survivors of the massacre who have died since, be for a blessing to us all

[1] https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-week-in-jewish-history--massacre-in-hebron-kills-67-8-3-2020

[2] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-756156

[3] https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/plb/1929/09/08/01/article/11/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1%5d

[4] http://pdfs.jta.org/1929/1929-09-01_1455.pdf - let me know if you can't read this and i'll transcribe the article for you

[5] http://en.hebron.org.il/history/1270 - oded avisar, who compiled the first hand testimonies written out here, uses some words that would not be considered proper today to describe the arab perpetrators. this source also has some very graphic descriptions and photos of what happened. if any of that is something that may bother you it may be a good idea to look over this source

[6] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-hebron-massacre-of-1929

[7] http://en.hebron.org.il/history/520

[8] yossi klein halevi, letters to my palestinian neighbor, pg 77

[sefaradweb]

Retrato de grupo de estudiantes en una escuela de negocios.

Entre los que aparecen en la foto están (primera fila, de izquierda a derecha): Jamila Kolonomos, Roza Kamhi, Redjina Shami, Rebeka Pardo, Marie Romano; (¿tercera o cuarta fila?): Joco Beraha y Leon Faradji.

Derechos de autor: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Procedencia: Jamila Kolonomos - nació en 1922 en Monastir (Bitola), en la provincia de Macedonia del Reino de Yugoslavia. Su familia era parte de la comunidad judía que había vivido en Monastir durante dos mil años. Para 1940, la población judía había disminuido a 3242 debido a emigraciones y otros factores. En abril de 1941, los alemanes invadieron Yugoslavia, lo que llevó a la aplicación inmediata de leyes antisemitas en Monastir. El padre de Jamila, Isak Kolonomos, perdió su trabajo en un banco después de que las autoridades alemanas confiscaran su contenido. Sus hermanos no podían asistir a la escuela, y la familia enfrentaba una creciente persecución. Durante la ocupación, Jamila se unió a la Resistencia Yugoslava, eventualmente convirtiéndose en Comisaria. En 1943, toda la población judía de Monastir fue capturada y enviada a Skopje, luego al campo de concentración de Treblinka, donde fueron asesinados. Jamila logró evitar ser capturada y se unió a los partisanos, participando en operaciones para liberar ciudades como Ohrid y Struga. A pesar de haber sido herida en una batalla, continuó sirviendo como Subcomisaria para la 42ª División Yugoslava. Después de la guerra, Jamila se mudó a Skopje, donde se convirtió en Profesora Emérita en la Universidad San Cirilo y San Metodio, y fue reconocida por sus contribuciones a la resistencia y sus logros académicos.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

"sefardic jews … are from the iberian peninsula, so spain and portugal. sometimes the term sefardic also refers to north african and some middle eastern jews, mostly because the sefardic culture was really proliferated through that area"

not really a refutation, i'm just adding that this is due largely to the expulsion of jews from spain in 1492; many jews ended up fleeing to north africa because life under muslim rule was less oppressive than life under christian rule. this is what happened to important figures like maimonides (who, importantly, became the central figure in many yemeni traditions)

askenazi jews were bonded through their common use of hebrew and yiddish

famously, the only ashkenazim that knew hebrew were the men who studied torah regularly, and it was NEVER used colloquially. it only became a common language through the haskalah

mizrahi jews are the jews we would most think of as being ancestrally and genetically tied to the land of israel

i have no idea who thinks mizrahim are somehow more tied to eretz yisrael, but whoever does, generally, is wrong. ALL major jewish populations studied are found to have genetic ties to eretz yisrael. here are some studies that are publicly accessible: x, x, x; and here are some that require institutional access (i have pdfs saved, dm me if you can't access them yourself) x, x

i also want to note that this idea of genetic ties to a culture is. fucking stupid. as we've seen with discussions around blood quantum and as is very lovingly discussed by wc anderson in "nation on no map," genetics should not be regarded as the end all and be all of a cultural claim

israel’s settler colonial policy has really prioritized immigration and settlement of ashkenazi jews—not sefardic jews and not mizrahi jews. it’s also really important to note that ethiopian and black african jews were really excluded from immigration efforts to israel

if we're measuring "immigration efforts" in terms of literal airplanes sent to a land to pick jews up from a place and bring them to eretz yisrael, this is completely, blatantly wrong. for ethiopian jews alone we got operations x moses x, joshua x, and solomon x, the latter of which ended up getting a world record for most people on a flight x. this could and should be a series of posts in and of itself so i'm just gonna link the wikipedia page to the jewish exodus from the SWANA region, x; it's a good starting point lmao

given that like 50% of israelis are mizrahim and/or sefardim x, if the baby state of israel didn't want them to immigrate, they really failed in realizing that lmfao

there have been some really harmful eugenicist policies in israel, like the nonconsensual (forced) sterilization of ethiopian jews who immigrated there. the israeli ministry of health actually admitted to the nonconsensual sterilization of ethiopian jewish women in 2013

nope. that's simply wrong. x, x, x. tge moment in 2013 that a lot of people say is medinas yisrael "admitting" to this, is actually them saying that if there is any doubt in the person's level of consent, then the shot should not be given. basically, the cause of the decline of birthrates of beta yisrael are in dispute, and if it was due to the administration of depo shots, it wasn't out of malice but rather out of miscommunications and grey areas. it's important to note that the original report only spoke to 30 women, not a great sample size

also, if medinas yisrael wanted to decrease the number of black jews in its midst, why all the covert operations to save ethiopian jews specifically?

the differentiation between mizrahi jews and sefardic jews would have helped to legitimize their ancestral ties and genetic ties to the land of palestine

all jewish communities have genetic and ancestral ties to eretz yisrael. see above. also, the history of mizrahim is way more complex than this. they didn't just spring into existence because the state of israel willed them to. many of these communities are (were) the oldest jewish communities in the world (before they were forced from their homes by pogroms)

my family is ashkenazi—we are ethnically polish, with a little bit of lithuanian—which is how i know that our origins are not in palestine

ALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES HAVE ANCESTRAL AND GENETIC TIES TO ERETZ YISRAEL HOW DO YOU THINK THE JEWS GOT TO POLAND AND LITHUANIA???

[my grandfather’s] genetic origins were in poland, where my father was a rabbi. like, look at my face, look at my skin, look at my freckles. i am not genetically mizrahi, i do not have ancestral ties to palestine

please be so for real right now. you are lITERALLY DOING RACE SCIENCE ON TIKTOK TO INGRATIATE YOURSELF TO ANTISEMITES WHO WANT TO ERASE JEWISH HISTORY. YOUR PEOPLE'S HISTORY

[keynewssuriname]

Joden Savanne derde World Heritage site voor Suriname

Suriname heeft een derde Wereld Heritage Site erbij. Jodensavanne is na jaren lobbywerk eindelijk geplaatst op de World Heritage Lijst van Unesco. Stephen Fokke, Secretaris van Stichting Jodensavanne en tevens World Heritage Site Manager, was aanwezig bij de 45ste vergadering van de Unesco in Al Murabba, Saudi Arabie. Fokke was niet verrast toen ons land had vernomen dat Joden Savanna officieel op de lijst zou worden geplaatst. "Het was te verwachten dat de site geplaatst zou worden, omdat de Advisory Body (ICOMOS) reed positief had geadviseerd. Maar het uiteindelijk besluit ligt bij het World Heritage Committee. Het bleef dus toch nog spannend tot dat het moment aanbrak dat het Comité het formele besluit nam", zegt Fokke. Het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap had reeds eerder bekendgemaakt dat Jodensavanne op de World Heritage Site geplaatst zou worden, echter was dat nog niet officieel. De officiële benoeming heeft dus zojuist plaatsgevonden. Suriname tracht sinds 1998 om Jodensavanne op de werelderfgoedlijst te plaatsen. Jodensavanne beschikt over twee historische plekken: de Cassipora kreek begraafplaats en een nederzetting van de Joden. Sinds 1998 heeft de stichting Jodensavanne lobbywerk verricht om deze goedgekeurd te krijgen. Ondanks de benoeming zal Suriname nog steeds hard moeten werken om op de lijst te blijven. Fokke geeft aan dat er tal van aanbevelingen zijn waaraan ons land zou moeten werken. "Er zijn een aantal aanbevelingen gedaan die uitgevoerd moeten worden. Voor 1 december 2024 moeten we daarover rapporteren. Het is gebruikelijk dat er een aantal aanbevelingen worden gedaan", merkt Fokke op.  Het vaststellen van de bezoekerscapaciteit van de site (hoeveel bezoekers kan de site aan) is een van de aanbevelingen waaraan gewerkt moet worden. Volgens Fokke krijgt Suriname en Joden Savanne de internationale erkenning die zij verdient met deze benoeming. "Het is Suriname's 3de werelderfgoed site en het verhaal van Jodensavanne krijgt hiermee internationale bekendheid als plek waar Sefardische Joden die gevlucht waren van de Inquisitie in Suriname een nieuw thuis vonden, een thuis binnen een slaven samenleving en binnen Inheems territorium", merkt Fokke op. De kolonisatie van Joden In 1630 kwamen de eerste Joden aan in Suriname. In 1664 kwamen er ongeveer 200 Sefardische Joden (Joden die waren gedwongen om het christendom in Spanje in 1492) uit Cayenne, die door de Fransen zijn gevangen genomen van de Nederlanders. De leider van de eerste joodse kolonisatie-inspanningen in Amerika, heette David Cohen Nassy (1612-1658) en had een dubbele identiteit. Hij was ook bekend onder de aliassen Joseph Nunez de Fonseca en Christovao de Tavora. Nassy woonde in Nederlands Brazilië en werd later een patroon (professionele kolonisator) een functie die in 1629 werd gecreëerd door de West-Indische Compagnie om kolonisatie in de Nieuwe Wereld aan te moedigen. De patroons waren de bestuurlijke en gerechtelijke leiders van deze koloniën. Nassy begon nederzettingen te stichten voor mede-Sefardim, van wie velen, net als hijzelf, nieuw-christenen waren geweest voordat zij openlijk terugkeerden naar het joodse geloof in hun toevluchtsoorden. Dat de joden gedwongen waren om zich te bekeren tot het christendom, gaf aanleiding tot het fenomeen van crypto-jodendom, waarbij belijdende katholieken van joodse afkomst zich bleven identificeren als joden of in het geheim het jodendom praktiseerden. In het begin heette de gemeenschap van David “Congregatie van Cayenne”. In 1665 kregen de joden belangrijk privileges van de Engelse koloniale regering: Vrijheid van meningsuiting en toestemming om een synagoge te bouwen, vrijheid van eigendom, het recht op een eigen rechtbank en onderwijssystemen, en het recht op een eigen militie. In hetzelfde jaar kregen de joden een stuk land dicht bij de Cassipora kreek om een synagoge te bouwen en een begraafplaats aan te leggen. Kort daarna verhuisde de gemeenschap naar een heuvel met uitzicht op de rivier. De joden behielden deze privileges nadat de Nederlanders de macht overnamen van de Engelsen. De joden hielden zich bezig met landbouw en verbouwde voornamelijk suikerriet. Andere landbouwproducten waren ook koffie, cacao en hout. Jodensavanne als nederzetting De belangrijkste reden waarom ze de Jodensavanne kozen als locatie voor een nieuwe joodse nederzetting, was de ligging op een heuvel en de constante beschikbaarheid van gezond bronwater. In 1658 vond de inauguratie van een tweede synagoge plaatst, genaamd ‘Beraha Ve Shalom’ (zegen en vrede). De synagoge was gemaakt van geïmporteerde Europese bakstenen. De joden in Jodensavanne kregen de kans om hun leven te leiden als een autonome- religieus-culturele enclave. Binnen het gebied Jodensavanne bespraken en streefden de joden van elke jood in diaspora om zelf rechtspraak in hun eigen koninkrijk te hebben. En was Jodensavanne toen een van de weinige voorbeelden voor de oprichting van de moderne staat Israël, waar de joden in diaspora politieke autonomie hadden. De autonomie die zij toen hadden in Jodensavanne was ongeëvenaard. In 1683, toen de eerste Gouverneur van Suriname de Suriname rivier opvoer, was Jodensavanne welvarend. Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck vond 25.000 huizen en een fort in Paramaribo, honderden huizen in Thorarica (toen nog de hoofdstad van Suriname) en in Jodensavanne zestig huizen. In 1684 telde Jodensavanne 105 joodse mannen, 58 joodse vrouwen en 69 kinderen, met 543 mannelijke slaven en  429 vrouwelijke slaven. Op Jodensavanne woonden ook enkele Inheemsen – sommigen ook in slavernij gehouden, maar de meeste van hen leefde als vrije mensen. In 1684 vormden de joden een kwart van de Europese bevolking in Suriname. Later bleek ook een klein aantal Duitse (Asjkenazische) joden op Jodensavanne te hebben gewoond. Ze kwamen daar door het huwelijk. In 1694 was het aantal joden dat in Jodensavanne en omgeving woonden opgelopen tot 570. Zij bezaten toen 40 suikerplantages waarop 9000 slaven werkten. In 1730 telde Suriname ongeveer 400 plantages waarvan er 115 in joodse bezit waren. De gemeenschap bloeide meer dan een eeuw, een periode die de Surinaamse kolonie tot een van de rijkste in Amerika had gemaakt. In de gouden tijden financierde de bevolking van Jodensavanne de Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, New York. In 1674 verscheepten ze 8000 pond aan suiker, bestemd als bruidsschat voor de dochters van een zekere J. Brandon in Amsterdam. De rijkdommen en kennis van de Surinaamse joden maakten hen tot een van de hoekstenen van de samenleving. Eigen defensiedivisie De joodse natie in Suriname had een eigen defensiedivisie of ook wel civiele militie die werd geleid door een civiele kapitein. Terwijl het in de 18de eeuw in de hele wereld leden van de joodse gemeenschappen verboden was om wapens te dragen, bestond in Jodensavanne een joods leger en een burgerwacht, die de mensen verdedigde tegen opstandige voormalige slaven bendes die regelmatig de plantages van de joodse eigenaren aanvielen. Van alle mannelijke kolonisten werd verwacht dat ze zouden deelnemen.  Van alle militie divisies in het land was de joodse militie een van de best functionerende milities. Dit had te maken met de committering die ze hebben gemaakt om te blijven en verdedigen van joodse natie. Nadat de rebellen slaven Immanuel Machado, een gruwelijke plantage-eigenaar in de Cassiwinica rivier, liet Governeur Scharphuysen het nemen van wraak aan de joodse militie. David Cohen Nassy had in de 18de eeuw meer dan 30 expedities geleid als kapitein van de militie divisie tegen de Marrons. Bron: Informatie over jodensavanne, Stichting Jodensavanne Read the full article

[kalopyrgos1]

Jews lived in North Africa since old times. But in 1492 came a new wave, Jews which were expelled from Spain, along with the Muslims of Granada. The Jews from Spain are called “Sephardic” because a Jewish name for Spain was “Sefarad”. The Sefardim still speak their old Spanish.