In Israel why do Ashkenazi Jews discriminate against Sephardic Jews?

Question

Are you even jewish or in Israel Winna....If so how can you not know what Ashkenazi and sephardic are?

Oh yes, it is true and not a "load of crap" lets get real and answer the question honestly..

me thinks you are burying your head in the sand slartibar...

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand your question…

You may say that there is a certain reciprocal tension between the different ethnic groups in Israel (mostly between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews), but it is not something institutionalized…
The Israeli middle class is made pretty equally of Ashkenazi Jews (second or third generation) and Sephardic Jews (second or third generation). The absurd claim that the Sephardic Jews get the worst jobs, don't advance in the army or don't go to universities is practically untrue.

The main embitterment that the Sephardic Jews have towards the Ashkenazi Jews is because of "the melting pot" policy that was accepted by the leadership of Israel (that was back then exclusively Ashkenazi) in its early years. The idea behind the melting pot was the creation of a new nation in Israel made of the different Jewish ethnic groups, and in order to do so the immigrants had to "erase" their old traditions and unique cultures and integrate with the rest of the ethnic groups.
The Sephardic Jews were expected to leave their old culture, but they were not the only ones to do so. Holocaust survivors that came from Europe in the late 40's and 50's had to learn Hebrew, espouse Hebrew names and basically forget their former identity too.

Today, the ethnic discrimination thing is more political than accurate, as the different groups integrate anyway, and a lot of the Israelis bear both heritages proudly (I, for example, am a son of a Moroccan mother and a Russian-German father).

Answer 2

The difference bitween the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, is basically something like bitween the blacks and whites.
Just like some people consider black people to be kinda like all "from getto". The same thing with sephardies. Of course it doesn't mean that all are the same. But I'm just saying that the difference would be the menatality of the two. And the looks of course but there are people who were born in familes where one perant is Sephardic and other Ashkenazic.
Also this is just untrue that Sephardics get the worst jobs i'd say that sephardics are those mostley rule the country.

Answer 3

Since when do Ashkenazi Jews discriminate against Sephardic Jews?

First I've heard of it.
Some Sephardics are a bit sniffy at the others because of the Russians - but that's because they are Russians - not because they are Ashkenazi.

Me thinks you've got something wrong there.
Back to the drawing board.

Answer 4

there is different culture between the Ashkenazi Jews and the Sephardic Jews even though both are Jews..

Answer 5

This is such a load of crap. What has ever been the basis for this claim? And if this were the case, then you wouldn't find so many Israelis with both Ashkenazi and Sephardic heritages, as is the case with me (mother from Yemen, father from Argentina) or many of my friends.

Answer 6

I don't think that Askenazi Jews discriminate Sephardic Jews. Many Jews from many countries life in Israel. There is many cultural differences, that making relations between people many completable

Answer 7

people are not perfect.

naturally bigoted people will find a reason to discriminate.

do you need a reason for bigotry and hate?

edit
nice try mar m but DNA evidence proves that Ashkenazi Jews are from the Middle East. So that would disprove your theory.

Answer 8

They dont discriminate they just dont agree.I ma of ashkenazi desent.Yisrael to be exact.And they dont agree dont anything from religon to family life.

Answer 9

Because Jews are people too. They discriminate just like others discriminate. Palestinian Arabs, as an example, are being discriminated against by the Saudi Arabs, and by the Iraqi Arabs. Christian Arabs by the Muslim Arabs. Ukrainians and Russians are both Slavs, and you cannot tell them apart ever, they are practically the same nation, and yet they discriminate against each other.
People from one building discriminate others from another building! That is just life! These are the rules, the boundaries that we live with. It isn't a good thing, and I wish that it wouldn't exist, but it does.
And it usually doesn't go one way, it is a two-way street.

Answer 10

This is true. Ashkenazim discriminate against Sephardi jews. But hey... there is also a kind of Sephardi - Sephardi discrimination too.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329922,00.html