Talk:Shas

Introduction

The longstanding introduction to this article begins:

Shas (Hebrew: ש״ס, an acronym for Shomrei Sfarad, lit. Sfarad's guards (of the Torah))

An editor has recently changed this to

Shas (Hebrew: ש״ס, an acronym for שומרי ספרד Shomrei Sfarad, "Sephardic Guardians")

I do not believe the latter to be an improvement, so have reverted to the original. The main problem is that using a mixture of Hebrew and English text in the sentence "an acronym for שומרי ספרד Shomrei Sfarad" does not read properly. Number 57 12:29, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Party leaders

Hi, I think there should be two boxes, not one, for party leaders. Rabbi Shalom Cohen did not just start on the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah in 2013. It would make more sense to have a separate box for the five current members of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah and the dates they took office. I have just expanded Shimon Baadani to a respectable length, and he needs to be mentioned on this page. As I have little experience creating boxes, I hope another editor will take care of this. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Shas is mainly North-fArican by leadership and is Anti-Palestinian

I'm an Arab-Aramean ex-jew from Israel. I want to clarify, Shas is one of the most misunderstood phenomena. It's leaders are all North-Africans by origin (Haredi), especially Moroccan. They claim and protest against Ashkenazi repression, but not to stop the crimes against Palestinians.But to gain a share of the both regime, and better control of the Mizrahi population. They are Anti-Palestiian and Anti-Arab, this is not recognized, for they are opportunist and change according to the regime. But in essence they are Anti-Palestinians, for example Aryeh Derie took central part in the Judaisation of Galilee. A famous expression of Ovedia Yosef that "all arab should die/serve us" made it's way to the press, but he and almost all of the leaders are like that, the others beside Ovadia maybe more tactical and rhetotical.

Shas is enthusiastically serving the Israeli regime and it's Zionist Narrative, with strong influence on North-African Jews. But they try to delate any other Mizrahi community here in term of identity, that is, they ask from the Yemeni, Kurdish, cts, not to be Yemeni or Kurdish, but to be "Sephardi" or "Mizrahi" in more religious terms, and they indeed use Judaism for that. In other word, it's dominated by North-African haredi that want to control all the "Mizrahi" population under pretex of ("we are all") "Mizrahi-Haredi", and hence take a share in the regime and become it's, in a way, puppet.

Academic secular Mizrahi (mainly Iraqis) severley critisized them. But most of the North-African secular academics themselves support, this way or another, in the movement. Ovadia Yosef was Iraqi by origin, but this was used for them as a cover, and they see in the Iraqis the "sephardic bridge" to control all of the other Miuzrahi Haredi communities.

The cover they get generally as representatives of "Mizrahi" is than misurable and only serves their own self-representation and propaganda. Indeed the Mizrahi crowds many of them fall in there hands, mainly emotionally (using also the religion) asto feel some worthy or comforn from the Ashkenazi repression. Indeed Shas uses the Ashkenazi repression, and combines it with religion to buy those voices and gain power. They did nothing to secular Mizrahi nor other religious group but mainly to their own shas-controlled institutions.

As i said, i want to stress: they protest for the Anti-Mizrahi of the Ashkenmazi insitution, but are themselves Anti-Arab, Anti-Palestinian, and anti all other non North-African "Mizrahi" communities, using religion and Mizrahi Haredism (Sephardism) for that. One can look for part of what i said here in the reports or articles of Avishai Ben-Hayim. Much info. available about Arie Derie as well. His corruption and many of it's leaders as well. I preffer not to tide but i'll do it if asked by the managers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.111.208.168 (talk) 19:28, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Still somewhat non Zionist

It’s more friendly to Zionism than UTJ, But it is opposed to conscription https://www.timesofisrael.com/shas-rabbis-tell-followers-to-ignore-draft-orders-as-idf-preps-for-haredi-enlistment/ Brandon4433 (talk) 02:17, 18 May 2025 (UTC)