I’m a Sephardic Jew and it’s complicated

It means that Jewish is my religion and that my cultural and culinary heritage come from the Arabic world. Actually, my DNA shows an ancestry that is mostly Arabic, Egyptian, Italian. To me, North Africa is this distant region of the world where my parents were born and that I ‘ve never seen. Arabic is this language my grandmother was using to soothe me, in tender words that I could barely understand: Habibi, laziza and so many more that disappeared from my memory after her passing. As a Sephardic Jew, I always counted my blessings, grateful that my family didn’t experience the horror of the Nazi extermination camps, nor the destruction in pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe. Today, I start understanding that things are not that simple. <a href="https://fabyoulicious.medium.com/im-a-sephardic-jew-and-it-s-complicated-035da2e30110">Click Here</a>