Immersion Hebrew
Published: May 8th, 2012
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tell a friendAbout the Author: Joojoon is a Persian/Jewish artist whose raucous cartoons celebrate everything sweet and absurd about life in Tzfat, Israel. Joojoon & Co (who categorically deny all knowledge and responsibility for the views expressed herein) recently made Aliyah from California, USA.
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In my limited experience I have found that Iranian and Iraqi Jews, as well as other Mizrahi Jews, speak Hebrew very well.