while its of course necessary to perserve culture and heritage, that cannot be the only consideration. my parents escaped camel-back from iran when my mother was expecting me and my brother was two. they went through a hellish escape through the arabic deserts and through pakistan with basically no food. my husband left his family and came to america alone at age 16 to go to yeshiva. and yet, despite the fact that my husband learns in a sephardic kollel and teaches in a sephardic shul, and despite the fact that i teach in the top sephardic yeshiva, we have decided to send our sons to an ashkenazic yeshiva. having both gone through the ashkenazic system, and observing both communities from up close, we choose the more “lumdish” “yeshivish” sheltered lifestyle for our kids. and we don’t see it as giving up the heritage. i see it as continuing the heritage of “above all, sacrifice for Torah.”
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