I see our friend Okunov has already had an effect on Chabad civilization.
Schneur | 11.29.06 - 10:43 am | #

Schenur, this has nothing to do with Chabad.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 11.29.06 - 10:45 am | #

The Ashkenazi tochuses didn't look that bad to me....
ShmorgelBorgel | 11.29.06 - 1:27 pm | #

Yeah, I can think of better examples of frum blandness.
Yos | 11.29.06 - 7:50 pm | #

Maybe it's me, but the one on the right sure doesn't look Moroccan.
Nir | 11.29.06 - 10:41 pm | #

Nir, I mixed right and left, sorry.
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 9:34 am | #

That makes more sense. But even the one on the left can pass for an Ashkenazi, so maybe she's only half a Maroc.
Nir | 11.30.06 - 2:20 pm | #

No she is a Moroccan but she told me that people think she is "Amercai"
Tzemach Atlas | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 2:21 pm | #

you know, ive noticed something.. all the people in your pictures always seem to have the same look in their eyes - this amused/shocked/pleasantly confused shine.. makes me want to look at what theyre looking at..
anonym00kie | Homepage | 11.30.06 - 10:48 pm | #

just get yourself a picture of TA and you're set!
uhu | 11.30.06 - 11:14 pm | #

"one on the left can pass for an Ashkenazi, so maybe she's only half a Maroc."
Nir | 11.30.06 - 2:20 pm | #

"No she is a Moroccan but she told me that people think she is "Amercai""

Re: these commments and just a pet peeve that I feel compelled to comment about even though I am sure a lot of people know this already--people from sephardi and edot ha mizrach backgrounds are lav davka darker, and ashkenazi peeps can often be swarthy & dark skinned (remember, when Jews lived amongst Northern and Eastern Europeans gentiles, who typically were fair of hair, eyes and skin, we were often stereotyped as being "dark" (whether the stereotype was accurate or not)).The comments remind me of an annoying statement presented as fact once made by the host of a dinner party I attended once in Park Slope, the host was a secular Jew from Long Island, raised Reform, who lived in Israel for about a year where he picked up his secular Israeli Ashkenazi kibbutznik wife.In short, he knew very little about Jewish religion and culture bichlal, although being married to an Israeli and having lived for a while there he can manage a sort of Ivrit-English creole.For some reason, (can't remember what the discussion was about) someone said something about "Sephardim" and one of the guests, an African-American, not Jewish, asked "I've heard these terms before, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, what does that mean?" And the host, as an expert on Israel and Judaism, hastened to explain to his guest and the others at the table--"Ashkenazic means the Jews in Israel who are light-skinned, and Sephardic means the Jews in Israel who are dark-skinned." He said it with conviction and authority and that was the end of the story as far as everybody at the table was concerned (I was the only other Jew there besides the host and his wife) and nobody was interested in hearing me explain that his comment was a gross oversimplification--(by the tewrms of his explanation, my olive-skinned and tan-all-year round father, whose grandparents came from Romania and Poland-was a "Sephardic"!)Anyway, I am also sure that nobody here is interested in reading this now!
ShmorgelBorgel | 12.01.06 - 1:31 pm | #