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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mountain Jew is probably the drink I can tolerate the most from Pepsi, but I would choose Coke, L&P, even Sprite if I could.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Sparkling Water is best

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Oct 30 (Reuters) - The Jewish community of the mostly Muslim region of Dagestan, focus of international attention since an attack on passengers flying in from Israel as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza intensifies, traces its origins back to the 7th century.

The community, shrunk by emigration to around 300-400 families from a peak population of over 10,000 in the middle of the last century, is based in the even more ancient city of Derbent on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, on an old north-south trade route skirting the Caucasus mountains.

Known locally as "Mountain Jews", they speak a dialect of the Farsi or Persian language spoken in Iran to the south.

This fact led Soviet authorities to designate their "nationality" - or ethnicity - in passports as "Tat", an umbrella term for Persian-speaking peoples who lived in many parts of the northern slopes of the Caucasus.

Some scholars believe that the first Mountain Jews, like members of many other Jewish communities, started to emigrate to a prospective homeland in what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine as early as the 19th century.

Shneor Segal, the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Azerbaijan, which borders Dagestan to the south, said the latest events were a terrible reminder that "even in our region, the Caucasus, where Jews have already been all but decimated, anti-Semites will use any excuse ... to terrorise the dwindling numbers of us that still remain".


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[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

is that like a rooftop korean?