Sephardic Jews Puns

In 1983, the Christian Science monitor wrote an article that brought up that people were wondering how the Mizrahi Jews in Israel went from left wing in the early 1970s to right wing in the 1980s. When the article was describing what the Mizrahi Jews first thought ideologically when they came to Israel, this is what it says: "To the new immigrants from Arab countries in the 1950s, most of them poorly educated, the revisionist ideology aimed at Jewish control of both sides of the Jordan River was strange and irrelevant" (link here to article).

In fact, when the Mizrahi Jews in Haifa's Wadi Salib rose up to protest discrimination against Mizrahi Jews in 1959, they demanded that the government "end the military government that ruled the lives of Israel’s Palestinian citizens" (link to article here).

About 10 years after the Wadi Salib riots, some Mizrahi Jews in Jerusalem formed a protest movement called the Israeli Black Panthers to protest discrimination against Mizrahi Jews. In fact, in the early 70s, the Black Panthers expressed solidarity with the PLO and even sought an alliance with them (link to article here).

But, as many of us know, many Mizrahi ended up throwing their support behind Begin and the right wing Likud Party as a way to protest against the political establishment that had discriminated against them. In fact, many of them went so right wing, that it was reported in a Christian Science Monitor article in 1984 about Meir Kahane that "in lower-middle class, largely Sephardic development towns, the pollster says Kahane won up to a third of the vote" (link to article here).

So, my question for you all is what happened between the 70s and 80s?

Because even in the 1980s the Israeli Black Panthers were still backing the PLO. For example, Charlie Biton, the leader of the Black Panthers, was meeting with Yasser Arafat in 1987 (link to article here). It was until the Second Intifada in the early 2000s that Biton cut ties with the Palestinians and became more right wing, with him eventually endorsing the Shas Party (link to article [here](https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headli

Non Jewish person here. Any Sephardic Jews here? If so what is the main cultural legacy of Sephardim in the USA and the world?

Let me know

Since "Liturgy" is not synonymous to "Genetics", a thing that the Jews today sadly do not know, and because the Ashkenazi rite had took over Europe as a whole in the 16th Century (Yiddish replaced many smaller local Jewish languages) while Sephardic rites took over the Oriental World (sans Yemen, mostly); I find myself write this post for any Jews interested. I will mention each diasporal group by their demographic weight:

1. Eastern European Jews - The Jews who sat from Russia in the East to the realms of the Polish Border are not stemmed mostly/only of the Ashkenazim who settled in Medieval Northern France and Germany. These Jews are recorded to have set all over these lands all along since the 2nd Century AD and have been around and kicking while Ashkenaz was still a functioning Jewish Culture. They are estimated by Cecil Roth in 1969 to be twice (if not more, by others) in size than the Ashkenazim by the year 1500. It may be that they're mostly descendants of Jews who fled from Turkey in the 7th Century and later from Iraq and Persia, where half of the Jews had settled in exile and were mostly found at till the 12th Century AD. There is a reason to suspect some may be of Khazar descent, as well as descendants of locals who married into the Jewish communities throughout the region (as in any Jewish diaspora). The reason why people today have German sounding surnames is that their ancestors have lived under the Austro-Hungarian Empire that forced all it's surnames-lacking residents to adopt names in the German language which the rulership used (the higher you paid, the better name you have got from the clerks; "Stine" and "Berg" were among the cheapest as far as I know, while flowers cost more..) between 1787 to 1831. These folks eventually migrated during the 17th Century and onwards westwards to the other part of Europe and their descendants became part of the newly established Jewish communities in Austria, Germany, France and beyond (Dutch Jews, for instance, were found to be genetically distant as heck from German Jews but closer to both EEJ and Dutch Non-Jews). There are 2 recorded clusters amongst European Jews, one is probably what was the one which stemmed from the historic Ashkenazic (sadly no Archaeogenetic study was conducted that I'm aware of..) and the other is from the Eastern European Jews who adopted the name "Ashkenazim" later on.
2. Sephardim - The descendant of the Iberian Jews. They were estimated to have been at above 400,000 by

What would a typical Iberian Jews results look like? I assume a mix of MENA, Ashkenazi and Spanish+Portuguese?

It always confuses me that religious jews from the middle east wear clothing from Poland/Europe (black hat)? Are there any folks going against this trend? Trying to reclaim traditional clothing?

For example, I am Iraqi-Jewish. It seems strange that I would not dress like my grandparents.

So my composition is as follows:

East Asian & Indigenous American 55.3%

1. Indigenous American 53.8%
2. Japanese & Korean 0.5% Japanese 0.5%
3. Broadly East Asian & Indigenous American 1.0%

European 33.3%

1. Southern European 31.7% Spanish & Portuguese 30.7% Greek & Balkan 0.3% Broadly Southern European 0.7%
2. Ashkenazi Jewish 1.0%
3. Broadly European 0.6%

Sub-Saharan African 7.0%

1. Congolese & Southern East African 3.7% Angolan & Congolese 3.7%
2. West African 2.6% Senegambian & Guinean 1.9% Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean 0.4% Broadly West African 0.3%
3. Northern East African 0.2% Sudanese 0.2%
4. Broadly Sub-Saharan African 0.5%

Western Asian & North African 1.2%

1. Arab, Egyptian & Levantine 0.6% Egyptian 0.6%
2. Northern West Asian 0.1% Anatolian 0.1%
3. Broadly Western Asian & North African 0.5%

Trace Ancestry 0.2%

1. Southern Indian & Sri Lankan 0.2%

Unassigned 3.0%

Recent Ancestry in the Americas

1. Mexico (Highly Likely)
2. Guatemala (High Likely)
3. El Salvador (Likely)

My mother is from Mexico and father is from Guatemala. Maternal haplogroup is B2 and paternal haplogroup is Q-M971.

It is not only the Muslims who suffered from the fall of the last flame of Al Andalus. The Sephardic Jews have suffered as much as (if not more than) our Brethrens in the north. While there are many lands willing to accept the Moorish refugees, there are not nearly as many people willing to take the Sephardic Jews.

Since the fall of Granada in 1492, the now retired Sultan Muhmmad ibn Yahya has been welcoming them into our realm with open arms and no questions asked. Even now, we continue to accept them and help them adjust to their new lives.

Sultan al-Burtuqali has decided, in an effort to help the Sephardic Jews get a chance to recover from the hardship of the last decade, to invest f50,000 in the various Jewish quarters throughout the Kingdom. The famous Rabbi Avraham Adrotil had granted former Sultan ibn Yahya the title of "Righteous Amongst Nations" and as a show of continued support to his protected dhimmi, Sultan Al Burtuqali has hired the Rabbi as an advisor in his court {though he for obvious reasons does not hold much of a title or say in court}. As is commanded by our faith, it is our duty to protect the dhimmi from unfair oppression. With this invest we hope the Jewish dhimmi in our realm will provide to the ever expanding market of our Kingdom

When they meet me and see that I'm brown, they assume I'm one of the mud people and treat me accordingly. Then when I reveal that I'm a sephardic, they change on a dime. I think more than anything seeing their true color is what has turned me off to it all.

I just found a few days ago. This is all new to me and I’m floored. I have no idea where to even begin looking up this info. I’m very lost and don’t how or where to start so any tips would greatly appreciated…

Sephardic Jews have a pretty extensive history in Spain and Portugal. Wondering if any Sephardic Jews in America speak Spanish and do they have any relations with the Hispanic/Chicano Catholic community because of the cultural and linguistic ties or do you feel more comfortable hanging around with the Jewish community?

Sephardic Jews have a pretty extensive history in Spain and Portugal. Wondering if any Sephardic Jews in America speak Spanish and do they have any relations with the Hispanic/Chicano Catholic community because of the cultural and linguistic ties or do you feel more comfortable hanging around with the Jewish community?