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Talmud Class with Rachel Korazim: The Wadi Salib Riots of 1959

Published: April 1, 2023, 4:44 p.m.

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\\u201cThe past is never dead. It\\u2019s not even past.\\u201d - William Faulkner\\xa0

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Faulkner\\u2019s famous quotation underlies all of Rachel Korazim\\u2019s sessions in this series about the crisis in Israel today. To understand the push for reform, and the protests against reform,\\xa0we went back to the Altalena incident in 1948\\xa0(March 18 Talmud class)\\xa0and to what Arabs in Israel have come to call their naqba, also 1948\\xa0(March 25 Talmud class).\\xa0 Rachel takes us to the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa on July 9, 1959, when police shot and wounded a man named Yaakov Elkarif, as a result of which riots ensued.\\xa0These riots were fueled by tensions between Ashkenazis and Mizrachis\\u2014all of which is brought to life by the\\xa0poems\\xa0we will consider tomorrow.\\xa0The tensions today are in part fueled by unresolved tensions between Ashkenazis and Mizrachis.\\xa0The past is never dead. It\\u2019s not even past.\\xa0We here may not be able to solve the tensions at play on the streets of Israel today. But Rachel\\u2019s teaching will enable us to better understand them.\\xa0Learning is always good.\\n\\n

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