Finding a Sephardic Jewish Community Changed My World

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Finding a Sephardic Jewish Community Changed My World

Sephardic Jews are loud, spirited and filled with Jewish joy. Ironically, we also tend to keep to ourselves. In America, at least, Sephardic communities often live in tight-knit enclaves: Syrian Jews in Brooklyn and Deal, New Jersey; Persian Jews in Great Neck and Beverly Hills; Bukharian Jews in Queens. I proudly belong to the last group. Like many in my community, my Jewish upbringing was purely Bukharian. We ate bakhsh on Shabbat, danced in t…