[Avodah] Minhag Anglia

[Dov Kaiser]

<<There absolutely is still a strong Minchag Anglia, including wearing Tefillin on Chol Ha Moed.  I do not understand why you changed your custom.  However, that is what is aiding the ever accelerating lurch to the right.  Repent ye!>
 
I didn't change my custom in England.  (In any event, I am an Aussie!)  I changed my custom upon arrival in EY, where no-one puts on tefillin on ChM - it is clearly minhag hamakom.  My question was what I should do when I visit England.  This also applies to saying Hallel in shul on Pesach night.  
 
My argument is that there is no Minhag Anglia, because communities of Jews who arrived in England since the 1890s have brought their own customs and established their own batei din.  
 
In answer to R. Wolpoe, my Dutch friend arrived as an individual, not with a whole community.  This goes some way to explaining the p'sak he received from R. Yisraeli.  Speaking of whom, I happened to see a copy of his Perakim b'Machshevet Yisrael on Shabbos.  It is a wonderful handbook of Jewish thought ripe for translation to English.  It's a pity ArtScroll wouldn't touch it because of its provenance.  His discussion of the argument between Chassidus and Hisnagdus is particularly interesting, as he discusses both the social and theological differences between the groups.
 
To be pedantic - I think it should be repent thee!, no ye!.  Ye is the old English second person plural.
 
Kol tuv
Dov Kaiser 		 	   		  
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