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On Tuesday 14 February 2006 1:33 pm, Seth Gordon wrote: > My wife quit her job as the editor of a synagogue newsletter after she > got tired of arguments over how to romanize various Hebrew words ("shul" > or "shule"? "Shabbat" or "shabbos"? etc.) and which words were foreign > enough to be italicized. I observed that we could moot all these > debates if we wrote the whole thing in Hebrew characters and called it > "Judeo-English". The Reform prayer books now have a gender neutral version. My synagogue has a mix of both, and it is somewhat comical during responsive reading to hear both texts simultaneously in English. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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