Back in 1974, I volunteered for a liaison program with the Israeli Air Force. The requirement was that I take a 44-week Hebrew course. Four weeks short of finishing, the funding for the project went away. We finished the class but never got to use it. The American Christian instructor said that Yiddish was the language of the ghetto and REAL Jews spoke Hebrew. His wife was orthodox Jewish and the instructor took part in the Jewish rituals. There a few holocaust survivors at the hospital where I volunteer and I try to hit them with some of the Hebrew that I do remember, and they’re always amazed that a “goy” can speak it.
Yes, real Jews speak Hebrew and even Ashkenazi Jews know that Hebrew is more accurately spoken with a Sephardic dialect (what you learned) than an Ashkenazi one.
Before the Migdal Bavel (that’s the Tower of Babel for all of you in Rio Linda) where mankind went from one language to seventy, the single language was Hebrew. Mankind is on track to speak a single language again and from what I can see it will be Hebrew again or some proto-Semitic language that sounds similar.
Teach your children and grand children today how to speak it and they’ll be ahead of the curve.