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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews

This article is about Mizrahi Jews, their native backgrounds, and how they ended up in Israel. All of the information is relevant and there was plenty of information provided. I think that the article could have talked more about the issues between Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel since it only touched upon it. What was interesting was the part about the rejection of Mizrahi Jew’s Jewishness by certain Ashkenazi circles and how they are put into the same category as Ethiopian Jews as black Jews. I think the article could have talked more about this since it is a current issue still taking place in Israel.

The article seems relatively neutral but it does make reference to the divide between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews. It is hard to say that this viewpoint of Ashkenazi “racism” is overrepresented since it is a highly contested issue right now, but there could have been more background information on the topic as well as some clarification that not all Ashkenazi Jews think this way. I also think that using the term “oriental” Jews is outdated and wrong, so they could definitely remove that terminology.

The citations work and the references seem very appropriate as many are written by a Mizrahi Jew herself. However, there were a lot of grammatical errors in the article. There are a ton of fragmented sentences. For example:

“Many Jews originated from Arab and Muslim countries today reject "Mizrahi" (or any) umbrella description, and prefer to identify themselves by their particular country of origin, or that of their immediate ancestors, e. g., "Moroccan Jew", or prefer to use the old term "Sephardi" in its broader meaning.”

“A study conducted by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), Mizrahi Jews are less likely to pursue academic studies than Ashkenazi Jews.”

“The term Mizrahim or Edot Hamizraḥ, Oriental communities, grew in Israel under the circumstances of the meeting of waves of Jewish immigrants from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, followers of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Temani (Yemenite) rites.”

There are grammatical errors in the talk page as well. There are a lot of debates as to which Jews identify as Mizrahi in the talk page. I also agree with one reader that there could be more information about Mizrahi Jews who do not live in Israel and still live in other areas of the Middle East. Apparently there are also quite a few numbers which are wrong and outdated. This article is a part of 5 wiki projects. This page is different from the way we talk about Jews of color in class because it is way more broad. We do a better job at breaking it down and allowing others to decide their background for themselves.