[Avodah] Consumer Alert: Minhog Scams On The Rise! Mislabeled, Cheap Middle Eastern Imports Flooding In, Threatening To Overwhelm Natives!

[Prof. Levine]

At 11:42 AM 6/16/2011, Lisa Liel  wrote:

> >At 03:10 PM 6/15/2011, Ben Waxman wrote:
> >>It's called kibbutz galiyot and bitul hagalut. Get onboard professor!
> >
> >On board what?  Living in EY should not cause one to abandon
> >Ashkenazic minhagim.  (BTW, the person who writes this blog lives in EY.)
>
>Of course it should.  Minhag goes by makom; not by ancestry.
>
>Lisa
  If it is true that  Minhag goes by makom, not by ancestry,  then 
why doesn't all of America follow the minhagim of the 
Spanish/Portuguese Jews who first came here?   All of the shuls 
founded in America until the middle of the 19th century followed the 
Spanish/Portuguese ritual.

Did not the followers of the GRA who came to EY follow their minhagim 
and not those of the Sephardim who were already in EY?  Shouldn't 
they have followed the minhagim that were in effect when they 
arrived, according to you?

YL
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