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MEDIA
SUPPORT
Dear
Media Representative,
The
International Society for Sephardic Progress is one of
the most effective advocates for the Sephardic Jews in the United
States. If you would like statements, analysis, a Sephardic expert
or statistics on matters related to the Sephardic Jews, feel free
to contact us for an immediate response. We are available to comment
on breaking news stories related to the Sephardic or general Jewish
community, read. If we cannot assist you, with our worldwide connections,
we can locate an expert on the subject matter you need.
ISFSP
has been contacted and has provided information to CNN, World
Net Daily, the Forward and several other news agencies.
If
you are seeking information on what Kabbalah is, please see
our official primer and fact
sheet on what Kabbalah actually is. This document was produced
for the media by an authentic Jewish organization
If
you are seeking an accurate description of who the Sephardic Jews
are, please feel free to use any of the following, but please
credit the ISFSP:
Sephardic
Jews have been erroneously been described as almost "any"
Jews which are not Ashkenazi, meaning descendant from Eastern
Europe and Asia such as Russia. This is a politically correct
term, but it is not an accurate one and thus should not be perpetuated.
A more accurate statement would read more like the following:
Who
are the Sephardim?
The
Sephardic Jews make up the second largest division of the
Jewish population. The Sephardim have their historic roots
in Spain, Portugal, North Africa as well as Mesopotamia and
Arabia. They developed and shared common religious and cultural
bonds with their fellow co-religionists from the Iberian/North
African Atlantic seaboard to the eastern portion of the Fertile
Crescent for at least the last 1,500 years. Sephardim have
developed and possess a shared relationship based upon unique
religious traditions, collective ideals, customs and ethnicity.
Today,
Sephardic Jews inhabit all corners of the earth, with large
populations living in North and South America as well as France,
Turkey and Israel. Smaller populations exist in Amsterdam,
Britain and Greece.
Shelomo
Alfassa
Executive Director
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