Word: ashkenazim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably 250 dysautonomic children. All but two families are of Ashkenazic (North European Jewish) extraction, from which more than 98% of American Jews are descended. In those two families, the mother does not know of any Jewish ancestors. In Israel, the forebears of 30 such children were all Ashkenazim rather than Sephardim (Mediterranean Jews). How did dysautonomia become an Ashkenazic malady...
...most Orthodox Jews the world over, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is the supreme spiritual authority in religious matters, and for Jews in Israel it also has full, legal jurisdiction over marriage and divorce. The two major divisions of Judaism-the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim-are each represented by a Chief Rabbi of their persuasion, and these two jointly head a council of five Sephardi and five Ashkenazi sages. Since 1959, the chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded...
...division of Judaism into Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...
...what I did today?" he roared in shame. "I sat down to lunch at a sidewalk cafe and left without paying." Many French Jews are less than happy to see their ranks swelled by the North African migration. Like most of world Judaism, the Jews of France are predominantly Ashkenazim, who follow the traditions that developed in the ghettos of Central Europe during the Middle Ages...
Most of the North African Jews, who follow the stricter Sephardic tradition, regard the Ashkenazim in France as doctrinally unorthodox and lax in their observance of religious duties. French Jews, in turn, privately dismiss the Sephardim as "backward and bigoted," fear the "superstitions" that the newcomers could impose upon Judaism in France...