Well let me first explain that the difference between Sephardi and Ashkenazi are wide and varied. For instance a good majority of Ashkenazi can trace their roots back to the Khazars of what is now modern day Georgia and Northern Armenia, as well as from Russia, Poland. They are more Eurocentric Jews and the Sephardi, well, we're more Mediterranean and Arab Jews. I'll use myself and my chiropracter for example, who happens to be Ashkenazi. I'm part Spanish, Moroccan, Cape Verdian, and a little bit of Turkish and Israeli Jew, which the Israeli Jew is called Mizrahim but that is another day and conversation. I'm short, have dark brown black cherry red hair, have a heart shaped face and very much olive skin toned. I don't sun burn at all and have brown eyes that can change color depending on my mood. In Sephardi culture, we're quite a bit more traditional, focus almost solely on the Torah or the Tanakh (The entire old testament including the apocryphal works) and don't have little to no sects of Judaism like the Hasidim, or the Kabbalists, or any of that guff. We focus more on the living than on the dead in that even with our Hebrew Naming ceremony for our children we name them after a living relative. Sephardi's tend to actually vote more Republican and are generally more middle of the road or conservative than our Ashkenazi counterparts. While I do identify with the simple explanation of being a Zionist, I'm anti-globalist and think that we should focus more on improving our country or origin (in my case the United States), rather than imposing the will of our belief system on others. I admit in some aspects to being more laid back like I'm some sort of Jewish Hippy mom, and nothing like the Celebrity Jews in Hollywood.

Now for the Ashkenazi chiropracter. His family is originally from Russia and his father was born in the Ural Mountains in the 1940s. Not long after that his family fled to America, where they lived in New York City until about 10 years ago when my chiropracter decided to move down to the South where we live. He's very tall, black headed, and is very much white, with more red undertones in his skin. I'm not even going to lie and under the cloak of anonymity for myself so my husband won't see this but my chiro is HOT. He as well as a good bit of the Ashkenazi's I've ever met and been around, and I've been around a ton, tend to be a little bit more materialistic, as well as liberally minded. Most of them are hardcore Zionists, and focus more on Talmudic and Rabbinnical Judaism than on the actual Torah. The Ashkenazi synagogues also tend to focus on activities and it's almost like they have their sects and groups all sectioned off because they want to categorize everybody. Honestly If there are any Ashkenazi Jews on here, I am very sorry if this offends you but this is my own personal experience upon growing up my entire life around these groups of people, over 35 years at this point.

If you look into the Hollywood Jews you will see a big difference in Sephardic vs Ashkenazi. Well a few good examples that I can think of off the top of my head are Hank Azaria off of the Simpsons and Rob Schneider are Sephardic, and Adam Sandler and Steven Speilberg are Ashkenazi. Benjamin Netanyahu is Sephardic, while the Rothschilds are Ashkenazi, Gene Simmons is Sephardic and Anthony Weiner is Ashkenazi.

In conclusion, while we are all ethnically and culturally Jewish, there are quite a few differences, especially if you just sit down, read about the differences, and just watch the personalities of some of these people. I hope this helps.