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It depends on what the question is asking. It is also worth noting that only a subset of Sephardic Jews, the Mizrahi Jews from Arab Lands, are relevant to this query. There are large numbers of Spanish Jews that have no connections to Arabs.
1) Question: Did Mizrahi Jews and Arabs intermarry?
The general historical narrative from both the Mizrahi Jewish and Arab Muslim communities is that there was not a high degree of intermarriage between Jews and Muslims during the period of the Islamic Empires and the overwhelming occurrences of such intermarriage were of Jewish women marrying Muslim men, resulting in Muslim families (since the Islamic Empires were governed by Islamic Law that holds that any children of a Muslim father are Muslims).
The DNA evidence is ambiguous on this for three major reasons: (1) Most Arabs in the Levant, Iraq, and Northern Africa, where the largest populations of Jews were, were not ethnically homogenous with each other or with the Arabian Arabs. Since most were descended from the Pre-Islamic Semitic civilizations, they would naturally bear more genetic similarities to the Jews who were local Semites as well. (2) A large number of Jews converted to Islam and took on the Arab identity in order to avoid additional taxation and gain the right to government participation, so we would expect a large number of Arab Muslims to share genetics with Mizrahi Jews. (3) The similarities are what we would expect whether the historical narrative was correct or incorrect, giving us no new information.
2) Question: Did Mizrahi Jews live alongside Arabs in a cosmopolitan way?
Yes and No. Jews typically were required to live in specific districts of a given a city, although, unlike the European ghettos, they were not locked into these areas. Jews and Arabs had a high degree of interpersonal relations and most Arabs had Jewish friends or neighbors and vice versa. However, during periods of upheaval or Arab pogroms, relations became estranged during the violence visited on the Jewish communities. Suspicion of Mizrahi Jews grew immensely in the 1940s when it was believed that they could be a fifth column for the Zionist movement in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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What religion is Michael Morpurgo?
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No. The Sefardic Jews are a slight minority in Israel.
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Who told you that they don't.
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Why are Ashkenazic Jews stricter than Sephardic Jews?
Ashkenazi Jews aren't more strict than Sephardi Jews, this question is based on a false assumption.
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