LazerA #fundie reddit.com

[An article describes how Italian Jews are having trouble finding rabbis willing to let them perform their uniquely Italian traditions due to the influence of Ashkenazi Orthodoxy.]

A lot of this so-called Italian tradition is only a century or so old, and is just a mixture of assimilation and ignorance. American Orthodoxy had the same problem in the first half of the 20th century.

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Even if [...] halachic observance was often quite weak among Italian Jews, that does not mean that laxity in observance became the minhag [tradition] of Italian Jewry! Laxity in observance is not a minhag, regardless of how widespread it becomes.

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