זשאַבע-זיללאַ<p>"Like many in my community, my <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> upbringing was purely <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Bukharian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bukharian</span></a>. We ate <a href="https://babka.social/tags/bakhsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bakhsh</span></a> on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Shabbat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shabbat</span></a>, danced in the traditional joma during celebrations and held annual <a href="https://babka.social/tags/yushuvos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yushuvos</span></a> — memorial dinners — for my late grandfathers. While I was exposed to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ashkenazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ashkenazi</span></a> traditions in high school, I never quite had meaningful interactions with <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Sephardim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sephardim</span></a> outside of my community — that is, until I became a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Sephardi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sephardi</span></a> House Fellow at the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> Sephardi Federation (ASF)."</p><p><a href="https://www.heyalma.com/finding-a-sephardic-jewish-community-changed-my-world/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heyalma.com/finding-a-sephardi</span><span class="invisible">c-jewish-community-changed-my-world/</span></a></p>