Many " Mizrahi " (" Oriental ") Jews today reject this ( 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 " Sephardic " in its broader meaning.

Most of the so-called Oriental Jewish or Mizrahi communities spoke Arabic, although Arabic is now mainly used as a second language, especially by the older generation.

Refuge in Israel was not without its tragedies: " in a generation or two, millennia of rooted Oriental civilization, unified even in its diversity ,” had been wiped out, writes Mizrahi scholar Ella Shohat.

Mizrahi Hebrew or Oriental Hebrew refers to any of the pronunciation systems for Biblical Hebrew used liturgically by Mizrahi Jews, that is, Jews originating in Arab countries or further east, and with a background of Arabic, Persian, or other languages of the Middle East and Asia.

Levy distinguished himself as the first of many young working-class members of the party from a Mizrahi ( Oriental ) background.

Mizrahi music ( Hebrew: מוזיקה מזרחית, Muziqa mizraḥit, " Oriental music ", " Musica mizrahi ") refers to the music integration that combines elements from Europe, the West, and Middle Eastern / North African countries, transported to Israel by migrating Jews.

The same claim is sometimes made for Yemenite Hebrew or Temanit, which differs from other Mizrahi dialects by having a radically different vowel system, and distinguishing between different diacritically marked consonants that are pronounced identically in other dialects ( for example gimel and " ghimel ".

** Mizrahi Hebrew used by Jews of the Middle East and North Africa

* Mizrahi Netzarim Judaism has the Cushite Hebrew Yeshiva, which is a non-messianic Yeshiva that follows the customs of North African Jews, and is located in Atlanta.

* pharyngealized voiceless alveolar plosive ( in Arabic, Mizrahi Hebrew )

* pharyngealized voiceless alveolar sibilant ( in Arabic, Mizrahi Hebrew )

* " Habibi Yah Habibi, a well-known Hebrew zemer of Asher Mizrahi

According to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, in the 1880s ( the time of the beginning of the Zionist movement and the Hebrew revival ) there were mainly three groups of Hebrew regional accents: Ashkenazi ( Eastern European ) and Sephardi ( Spanish / Portuguese / Italian ), and Mizrahi ( Middle Eastern ) both largely used by Israelis of Iraqi, Moroccan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Yemeni heritage.

The House on Chelouche Street is a 1973 film by Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi, filmed in Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic, and Judeo-Spanish ( a Jewish oriented dialect of Spanish ).

Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim (), also referred to as Adot HaMizrach ( ע ֲ דו ֹ ת-ה ַ מ ִּ ז ְ ר ָ ח ) ( Communities of the East ; Mizrahi Hebrew: ), are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus.

" Mizrahi " is literally translated as " Eastern ", מזרח ( Mizraḥ ), Hebrew for " east.

* Mizrahi Hebrew

** Mizrahi Hebrew – Mizrahi Jews, liturgical

* Mizrahi Hebrew language ( liturgical )

This feature is also found in Mizrahi Hebrew, but is not found in Israeli Hebrew.

Spanish and Portuguese Jews traditionally pronounced it as ( as do most Mizrahi Jews ), though this is declining under the influence of Israeli Hebrew.

* The pronunciation of tāv without dāḡēš as ث as in " thick " is shared with other Mizrahi Hebrew dialects such as Iraqi.

This is in accordance with most of Mizrahi Hebrew.

He claimed that ' it seems that for women there is a higher standard and she must be motivated in order to have this permission to learn ' in his response to the Mizrahi tradition.

* In Israel although it shares a similar agenda with the Sephardic Shas political party, Shas is more bipartisan when it comes to its own issues and non-nationalistic-based with a huge emphasis on Sephardi and Mizrahi Judaism.

In keeping with this understanding, certain verses of it are read by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews on Shabbat eve, to symbolize the love between the Jewish People and God that is also represented by Shabbat.

Allah ( literally, al-ʾilāh ) is also the Arabic name for the God of Abraham in general, as it is used by Arab Christians and traditionally, Mizrahi Jews.

Jeffrey Masson is the son of Jacques Masson, a French Mizrahi Sephardic Jew of Bukharian ancestry, and Diana ( Dina ) Zeiger from an Ashkenazi strict Orthodox Jewish family.

The term Mizrahi is used in Israel in the language of politics, media and some social scientists for Jews from the Arab world and adjacent, primarily Muslim-majority countries.

Khat is consumed by older Mizrahi Israelis, and the raw plant is available for sale in several open markets.

These two are part of the United Synagogue, also included, but independent, is the Southgate Ilan ' Bel-Air ' Kahlani Synagogue, serving Yemenite Jews of Adeni extraction and other Mizrahi Jews.

By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi woman who marries into an Orthodox or Haredi Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her children to be Ashkenazi Jews ; conversely an Ashkenazi woman who marries a Sephardi or Mizrahi man is expected to take on Sephardic practice and the children inherit a Sephardic identity, though in practice many families compromise.

In current use, Mizrahi Jews is a convenient way to refer collectively to a wide range of Jewish communities, most of which are as unrelated to each other as they are to either the Sephardi ( in the narrower sense ) or Ashkenazi communities.

She is also notably popular in Israel among Jews ( of Mizrahi / Arab background ) and Arabs alike, and her records continue to sell about a million copies a year.

Sephardic law and customs means the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim.

However, turbans are still worn by Mizrahi Jews, that is, Jews of Middle Eastern descents.

This is most prominent in areas with Mizrahi, Sephardi, or modern Israeli influence.

The Maccabi Haifa 1993 / 4 squad including Eyal Berkovic, Reuven Atar, Alon Mizrahi and Serhiy Kandaurov, and is considered one of the best squads in Israeli football history.

Sephardic Judaism is the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi ( Spanish and Portuguese Jews ), Maghrebim and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim ( German Rite ).

His halakhic responsa are highly regarded within Orthodox circles and are considered binding in many Mizrahi communities, among whom he is regarded as " the most important living halachic authority.

As such, Mizrahi Hebrew is actually a blanket term for many dialects.