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<font size=3>At 01:32 AM 6/17/2011, Ben Waxman wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>There are
things that I might change but my starting point is not "what bubby
and tzeidi did was the absolute best and it has all gone bad since
then". <br>
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</font><font size=2>The German community was just one more community in
the galut (yes I write galut and not galus). It has its pluses and
minuses, just like every other community. </font></blockquote><br>
I would have thought that you would prefer the term galus, since
from your standpoint it is the galus pronunciation and more poignantly
points out what this term refers to.<br><br>
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</font><font size=2>IMO the author of the web site is trying to bring a
dead horse to life and is fighting a lost battle.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, "<font size=3>The reports of the death of
Nusach and minhog Ashkenaz have been greatly exaggerated."<br><br>
Please see
<a href="http://www.moreshetashkenaz.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.moreshetashkenaz.com/</a> ,
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3vfp956" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/3vfp956</a>,
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3qhdk4b" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/3qhdk4b</a> and
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3lqqjjc" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/3lqqjjc<br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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