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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster claiming that Hebrew schools are white is also being offensive because for most of history jewish people have not being viewed as white and most people don’t consider themselves so.

[b]Sephardic Jews do not look white [/b]and there are plenty of them in the US and it is also offensive to gloss over them being white to support your point. Many of them look darker and the ones from Latin America look like the population there.

Reform Judaism does not focus solely on the religious component of it, they believe in the tribe too and but has expanded the definition. Whether you agree or not it is now the largest growing Jewish group and the movie is a reflection of what their synagogues are like. [/quote]

Sephardic Jews do not look substantially different from Ashkenazi Jews. And none of us look that different from Italians, Lebanese Christians, or Algerians.

"The ones from Latin America" look like the communities their grandparents immigrated from in (usually) Eastern or Southern Europe. [/quote]

Sure. Tell that to my Sephardic Jewish grandparents that were heavily discriminated against for being too brown. 
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Well my Ashkenazi mom is often mistaken for Hispanic, and my Guatemalan contractor once griped about my Ashkenazi neighbor while calling her "that Spanish woman," so...

I don't know the specific circumstances, but the "color" thing is not so relevant in Jewish history where inter- or intra- relations are concerned.[/quote]

The “color” thing is relevant here because there are literally people here claiming that the Jewish experience in the US is white and the movie wrong for showing a diverse class when that is clearly not the case. (Asides from NJ Hebrew schools) which I have no clue on. My Sephardic relatives get mistaken for hispanic all the time. So is it crazy to see Hispanic faces in class? Answer is no.

To add injury to insult most jews don’t even consider themselves white and have been told to their faces they are not white.[/quote]

You're responding to me. The source of their not-whiteness is the Jewishness, not the Sephardicness. DNA testing shows the same amount of European genetic material in Sephardic Jews as Ashkenazi Jews, and it dates back to the initial phase of exile in Rome in both cases. Since branching apart in the early Middle Ages, both groups have been mostly endogamous. We look a lot like each other. I dont consider myself white as an Ashkenazi Jew, but America typically does. [/quote]

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