Ashkenazi

While the culture and history of European Jewry is taught and imparted in Israel’s education system, that of Mizrahi Jewry is not.

These dishes were adapted to the kosher Ashkenazi kitchen, with recipes that were passed down from one generation to the next – just as was done with recipes in Sephardi communities. 

The Baba Sali’s white-domed neo-Moorish mausoleum, located in a park and palm forest developed by the Jewish National Fund, is a magnet for some 800,000 visitors annually.

If Israeli Jews are white, then who are the people of color that these “white Jews” must be oppressing through their white supremacy? The Palestinians, of course.

Legislation to prohibit hateful symbols is expected to be passed in early 2022. 

Tay-Sachs is an inherited disorder that is almost always fatal and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews. Currently, there is no viable medical treatment available.

The truth is that in the past, and perhaps even today, many Ashkenazim also viewed the Mizrahim as a collective – an inferior collective.

Israel is expected to tell the Egyptians that any agreement should include the return of the bodies of two soldiers believed killed in the 2014 Gaza war.

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The series is the brainchild of two recent college students who found themselves craving a way to get to know other people whose identities overlapped with their own.