Docu-film: Ashkenaz (2007, 72 min), directed by Rachel Leah Jones

September 27 at 4:00pm at Congregation Nahalat Shalom

While Ashkenazi Jews (of European descent) present as the social and cultural norm within

Israeli society, they don’t necessarily see or think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms

because by now, "aren't we all Israeli?" Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, exile with

occupation, the shtetl with the kibbutz. But what are the views of the Mizrahim (Jews of

North African and Middle Eastern descent)? How did the "Others" of Europe become the

"Europe" of the others?