Cultural exchange with /r/Arabs!

[u/ContentChecker]

Hi everyone,

Today we will be having a cultural exchange with r/Arabs - beginning at 8AM EST, but extending for about 2 days so feel free to post your questions/comments over the course of that time-frame.

The exchange will work similarly to an AMA, except users from their sub will be asking us questions in this thread for anyone to answer, and users from our sub can go to a thread there to ask questions and get answers from their users!

To participate in the exchange, see the following thread in /r/Arabs:

https://old.reddit.com/r/arabs/comments/1gd9eb3/cultural_exchange_rjewsofconscience/

Big thanks to the mods over at /r/Arabs for reaching out to us with this awesome idea! Thanks to MoC for posting the original post.

• Previous thread

[u/comix_corp]

Hello, one thing I've noticed is that the newer generation of anti Zionist/left wing Jews seems to be more interested in Yiddish than Hebrew. Is this because people feel that Hebrew is tainted by association with Israel, or are there other reasons?

[u/bogby55 → u/comix_corp]

I mean I feel like everyone has a different answer to this. My own personal journey to learning yiddish largely stems from the fact that I am an askenazim, and yiddish was the language (among others) that my ancestors spoke.

This being said, I have been in some capacity speaking/learning modern hebrew (some call it israeli hebrew) for practically all my life and I think it's an incredibly useful and interesting language in it's own right. It is unfortunate that, yes, it is inherently associated with israel. However, I think, again in my opinion and experience, it has transcended being solely the language of israel and is now a pretty well respected and important jewish language right up there with yiddish, and will continue to be after the state of israel ceases to exist.

I also just love learning languages so perhaps I'm a bit biased here ;)

اسلام عليكم ✌️