Syrian- sorry to break it to you, but MOST of my friends are Syrian Sephardic. My kids attend Sephardic Schools and I identify myself with the syrian sephardic community. Please don’t go on making assumptions about other people. Just because I may not look or dress like the typical “SY”,or have the means to able to go to Deal, for the summer, doesn’t me make less of a Sephardic person than you are. I cook the same foods as your mom does, albeit incorporating some ashkenaz foods on Shabbat (gefilte fish or kugel anyone??) I daven/pray/sully Nusach Aydot Ha Mizrach. I don’t understand how you can presume most of friends are Ashkenaz. Is it because I don’t go to Deal for the Summer?? Does that make my friends Ashkenaz?? Yes, I have few ashkenaz friends, actually, my best friend is ashkenaz, but most of my friends include people from my husband’s Sephardic shul, parents from my children’s sephardic school,friends who attended the same sephardic schools growing up, and my family. Didn’t you read in some of my threads that my father was from a middle eastern country,though my mother is ashkenaz,she learned to speak Arabic and that is what my parents spoke to each (especially when they didn’t want me or my siblings to understand). I managed to be able to understand Arabic, but I don’t think I’ll be able to be as fluent in the language as my parents are. My mother ONLY makes middle eastern foods, that your own mother makes. I am sorry but I think, you as young person, you have alot to learn about people,
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