LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.19 (01) [EN]

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From: Mike Morgan mwmbombay at gmail.com

Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.18 (04) [EN]


A gutn tag, Ron,

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 (פֿאָרווערטס), 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.

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.

An interesting trivium (to a goy anyway) that I only learned recently is,
to quote wikipedia, that:

"Most of Squirrel Hill is surrounded by a consecrated wall (an
"eruv<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv>"
using telephone poles and wires as the "wall") which permits orthodox Jews
to carry things like books and push strollers on the
Sabbath.[11]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_%28Pittsburgh%29#cite_note-10>The
*eruv*'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 *eruv*'s boundaries all the way from the north
end of the Hot Metal Bridge
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Metal_Bridge>to the intersection of
Wilkins and South Dallas in Point
Breeze <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Breeze_%28Pittsburgh%29>."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Hill_%28Pittsburgh%29]

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.

... 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 יאַרמלקע), 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  طاقية‎ (Taqiyah) I often keep in my back pocket
in case I want to slip inside a mosque... but thought better of it ;-)

mwm || *U* C > || mike || мика  || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W
Morgan)
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist
new affiliation coming soon: NFDH Kathmandu, Nepal

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From: Mike Morgan mwmbombay at gmail.com

Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.18 (04) [EN]


oh, and btw, the Dunkin Donuts here is Kosher ;-)

mwm

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Mike Morgan <mwmbombay at gmail.com> wrote:

> A gutn tag, Ron,
>
> 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...
>
-- 
mwm || *U* C > || mike || мика  || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W
Morgan)
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist at large / "Have
language(s), will travel"

*"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)
"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.* *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)*
been there, done that...


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