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From: dcs@homxa.UUCP (D.SIMEN)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Re: Genuine S:abuot Minhagim
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 08:47:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 08:47:01 1984
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> I think that Susan Sludsky has fairly accurately reproduced the type of
> bigoted ignorant abuse to which my family and most other oriental Jews
> were subjected when they emigrated to Israel.

> Westerners in their cultural chauvinism assume that when women from
> an oriental society are not encouraged to fill exactly the same social
> roles as men, there must be systematic abuse of women.  And then of course
> there is the general principle if you don't understand it dump on it.

>                   Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo
>          	 (An Equal Opportunity Offender)

I am amazed that Y. Martillo doesn't recognize his own style, which Susan
Slusky reproduced so well!  Her article was funny because it was such a
brilliant pastiche of Martillo's style -- with a perfect reproduction of his
own "bigoted abuse" (although I cannot and will not accuse him of ignorance)
and "cultural chauvinism".  It was certainly not a "dump" on Sefardi customs;
the only dumping I've seen in this newsgroup has come from Martillo himself.

Somewhere I remember a mitsva that reads "V'ahavta l're`aka kamoka".

						David ben Mord'kai Simen
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