[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[David Riceman]

  Me:
>>
>> When I was young I was told that we use the reverse of the course our 
>> ancestors took to get here, which is why we don't use the great 
>> circle route.
>
> RZS:
> From which direction did Jews (let alone "our" ancestors -- whose?) 
> arrive
> in San Francisco?  Did they come from the east or the south?  Should 
> shuls
> in Texas and surrounding states point towards Galveston?
>
>
I asked those same questions, and was told that the bulk of American 
Jewry arrived via the east coast, and the bulk of Jews in the west came 
via the east.  I don't know how this explanation would hold up in the 
era of migration via airplane, but it does explain, for example, why 
Bavel and EY are each north of the other.

But we were talking about Bostonians (before the high tech migration).

David Riceman