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From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.18 (04) [EN]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span></span></p>A gutn tag, Ron,<br><br>I happen to be visiting friends in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (for those unfamiliar with US geography, I would describe
it as being about as far west as one can go and still MAYBE qualify as
beign a part of the North eastern US). Anyway, the neighbourhood my
friends live in, Squirrel Hill, is about 40% Jewish. It has been ratehr
heavily Jewsih since the 1920s of there about, and I can remember when
my friend first moved back here in the late 1980s, whenever I visited, I
could count on overhearing Yiddish and being to easily get a copy of
the Forverts (<span lang="yi">פֿאָרווערטס</span>), a favourite Yiddish
socialist weekly. The starting in the 1990s there was a big influx of
Russian Jews, and Russian began to replace Yiddish as the most likley to
be heard other language on the Hill.<br>
<br>Due to the large Jewish population, and to the diversity of American
Jews, you can see the full range... there is even a Chabad (חב"ד)
(Lubavitcher) Chasid day school.. one of the three Jewish day schools I
can think of here. There are at least 7 or 8 large Temples ... and, i
assume, a few smaller ones off my beaten paths that I am unaware of. <br>
<br>An interesting trivium (to a goy anyway) that I only learned recently is, to quote wikipedia, that:<br><br>"Most of Squirrel Hill is surrounded by a consecrated wall (an "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv" title="Eruv" target="_blank">eruv</a>"
using telephone poles and wires as the "wall") which permits orthodox
Jews to carry things like books and push strollers on the Sabbath.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_%28Pittsburgh%29#cite_note-10" target="_blank"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup> The <i>eruv</i><span style="padding-left:0.1em">'</span>s
boundaries are quite irregular and contain portions of other
neighborhoods as well, with one writer noting that "an Orthodox Jew
could carry something within the <i>eruv</i><span style="padding-left:0.1em">'</span>s boundaries all the way from the north end of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Metal_Bridge" title="Hot Metal Bridge" target="_blank">Hot Metal Bridge</a> to the intersection of Wilkins and South Dallas in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Breeze_%28Pittsburgh%29" title="Point Breeze (Pittsburgh)" target="_blank">Point Breeze</a>."<br>
[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_%28Pittsburgh%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_%28Pittsburgh%29</a>]<br><div id=":16g"><div><br>Oh, and as a side note, it was a Chabad house that was one of the targets of 26/11 -- the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008.<br>
<br>... although my most amusing tale of Jews in India was sitting in a
corner of the rooftop resturant of my hotel near the shore of the lake
in Udaipur (Rajasthan) as Shabas (Sabbath) eve approached, and suddenly
being surrounded (on 3 sides) anyway by a bunch of young Israelis. Most
the men had no kipahs (or <span lang="yi">יאַרמלקע</span>), and so they
hastily looked around, and paper napkins were the best they could do. ..
I thought for a second about offering one of them the <span lang="ar">طاقية</span> (Taqiyah) I often keep in my back pocket in case I want to slip inside a mosque... but thought better of it ;-) <br>
<br>mwm || <u>U</u> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>new affiliation coming soon: NFDH Kathmandu, Nepal<br><br>----------<br>
<br>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.18 (04) [EN]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span class="gI"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">oh, and btw, the Dunkin Donuts here is Kosher ;-)<br><br>mwm<br>
<br></p><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Mike Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A gutn tag, Ron,<br><br>I
happen to be visiting friends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (for those
unfamiliar with US geography, I would describe it as being about as far
west as one can go and still MAYBE qualify as being a part of the North
eastern US). Anyway, the neighbourhood my friends live in, Squirrel
Hill, is about 40% Jewish. It has been rather heavily Jewsih since the
1920s of there about...<br>
</blockquote></div>-- <br><div><div class="im">mwm || <u>U</u> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br></div>sign language linguist / linguistic typologist at large / "Have language(s), will travel"</div>
<div><br><b>"If one has no affection for a person or a system, one
should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so
long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence." (MKG)<br>
"You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its
orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such
allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.</b> <b>A good
person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of
the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty." (MKG)</b><br>
been there, done that...</div><br></div></div><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
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