Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY

I have been to several simchas at the Kol Eliyahu sephardic shul in Sheepshead Bay. Its a beautiful shul with a very welcoming tzibur that follows a Lebanese hashkafah. It seemed a bit more “modern” than the Syrian Sephardeshe shuls I’ve been to but others here in the CR may know better if they rigidly follow the Syrian takana on geyrim.

In any event, there are countless non-Syrian Sephardic Shuls in Brooklyn.

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I don’t want to share which one me and my three wives are due paying community members of, since GodolHaDofi will then start picketing outside every Shabbat that we are there.

“I don’t want to share which one me and my three wives are due paying community members of, since GodolHaDofi will then start picketing outside every Shabbat that we are there.”

Sad that he hasn’t even looked up to the ezras nashim and realized that Nos. 1 and 3 quietly walk across the street after the start of davening to the Ashkenazi Shtiebel

There are many different Sephardi and Eidot haMirzrach (strictly speaking, a Sephardi is someone who is descended from Gerush Sepharad) communities. So far as I know, the takana only applies to the Syrian community (and not all Syrian rabbis supported it).

No one is against geirim from outside communities
After all it a mitzva deoraita to love a ger
The takana was for people in those communities

Maybe try Chaim Sha’al on ave N and east 12th. They’re mostly Israeli, with mixed Sephardic background, I highly doubt they care about the Ger rule. There is a Moroccan shul on N and 14th, called Yismach Moshe. They probably don’t either care about the Ger rule.

The SY geirim takana is only applicable in the SY community. NOT in any other Sephardic communities.

Shul membership and burial is only available for SY community members. Any non-member isn’t qualified. It isn’t that geirim are banned but rather any non-member of the community.

A Ashkenazi cannot become a member either. Nor can a Persian, Yekke, or Chosid become a member.

Have you met any SYs with the last names Teitelbaum, Katzenelenbogen or Deutsch?

They give aliyas to geirim who happen to come to their minyanim. They just don’t sell memberships to non-SYs.

I doubt geirim get Aaliyah’s in non-sy shuls

In the average Ashkenazic synagogue,
the % of kohanim is around 1% to 3%.

In the average Syrian synagogue,
the % of Kohanim is around 30% to 35%.

Since the Torah prohibits Kohanim from marrying
converts [gerim], is it wise to permit converts in
a community where 30% of the men are Kohanim?

Additionally, some poskim [whose names I unfortunately
cannot remember] have written that Kohanim who are
Syrian and/or Sephardic have a greater [or better]
mesorah of kehunah than Ashkenazic Kohanim,
which makes the prohibition against Kohanim
marrying converts even greater for Kohanim
who are Syrian and/or Sephardic.

For example: When a Syrian Kohen performs a
Pidyon HaBen, he NEVER gives the money back,
because the Syrian Rabbis hold that there is
no doubt [safek] on the identity of their Kohanim.

Compare this to Ashkenazic Kohanim, who return
the Pidyon HaBen money, because they fear
a doubt [safek] on their identity of their Kohanim.

Is it wise to permit converts in a community
where 30% of men are Kohanim, who have
no safek on their yichus as Kohanim?

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