parochial school

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:36 PM -0400 4/6/11, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
>>[JJJRL] A reason for using "parochial school": if you said "religious
>>school" your listener might think of Sunday School, Jewish "Hebrew
>>schools" which meet in the afternoon or evening to give one or two
>>classes in Hebrew and Judaica, vacation Bible Schools, etc.
>
>Exactly like a conversation I had with a friend.
>
>Friend: "My son now goes to Hebrew school"
>Me: "Oh? I didn't know they had one in Milwaukee or nearby."
>F: "No, no. He goes on Tuesdays at the temple for bar-mitzvah lessons."
>
This was standard usage on Long Island when I was attending "Hebrew
school" of exactly this sort  at my local Reform synagogue for
exactly this reason in...let's see...1957-58.

LH

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