#Shavua_Tov! Friday’s Sephardi World Weekly​ featured articles on Barefoot Iraqi Selichot​, Halabi Israelis Condemn Assad, Tributes for Tunisian Rabbi, An American Jew in Kurdistan, and Yom Kippur​ PiyyutimThis Week’s Articles:1.) The Tunisian-born former Chief Rabbi of France/ Grand Rabbin Joseph Haim Sitruk​uk, passed away on 25 September at the age of 71. Charismatic and humane, R’ Sitruk was remembered as a rabbi “who could make people like reading.” He made headlines in 2015 by expressing solidarity with Tunisia​ after the country suffered a terror attack, stating for the record that the land of his birth is a “land of coexistence and tolerance.”2.) Avraham Shama remembers walking barefoot to attend Slichot, petitions for forgiveness offered in the period leading up to Yom Kippur, as a six-year old child in Iraq​. Shama was told, “If we step on gravel or shards and hurt the soles of our feet, then our pain will count toward our suffering for the destruction of the Temple.” Now a successful professor of international business living in New Mexico​, Shama, “drives to the synagogue wearing designer shoes and socks of any color.”3.) Some Israeli Jews​ originally from Aleppo, Syria​ fondly remember the city while simultaneously loathing the blood-soaked dictator currently at its helm, Bashar al-Assad​, “Sometimes, I’m sad that I left Aleppo, because there I knew which house belonged to whom. There was a yard that where everybody gathered every Shabbat… I had Arab friends, customers who cried when we left. Because of this, it’s very painful for me when I think of those people....”Feature of the Week: Yom Kippur Piyyutim MedleyThe great Moroccan-Israeli payytan, Emil Zrihan​, sings a medley of piyyutim, including piyyutim for Yom Kippur.This SWW is dedicated to Ronald P. Stanton, A”H