"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.“


-Isaac Mizrahi

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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

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