Aaron Wiederman

It has happened that in Israel, a bus driver while driving kids back home from school, called a girl, an Ethiopian jews, “monkey” intimating her to go home or to the zoo. You can read the article here and here. Now, in spite of all the things that can be said about this disturbing bus driver who keeps on denying the fact by saying that the family of the girl is trying to make easy money (…), I…

I was recently thinking: what would I see if I walked down the street of a Jewish neighborhood of New York? One of those neighborhood inhabited by ultra-orthodox Jews who could be compared to those who live in Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem?

Samaritanism can be summarized in five points. Five tenets, actually. Some of them do not differ much from Jewish ones, but there are others which are quite unique and distant from the orthodox Jewish tradition.

Mr. Berlusconi, during a meeting that took place in Milan, explained this way why, in the past, he suggested to mr. Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, that he could have played the part of a Kapò in a movie. However, this time he added the stimulating details that for Germans, the Concentration Camps never existed – rousing indignation all around Europe.

It has happen that in Israel, a bus driver while driving kids back home from school, called a girl, an Ethiopian jews, “monkey” intimating her to go home or to the zoo. You can read the article here and here. Now, in spite of all the things that can be said about this disturbing bus driver who keeps on denying the fact by saying that the family of the girl is trying to make easy money (…), I think that it could be interesting to overlook the fact from a different prospective. I mean: is this a common attitude among Israelis? What do Israel think about Ethiopian Jews? What’s the role of Ethiopian Jews in this context?