<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body lang="en-US" style=""><div><br></div><div>It seems there is a tremendous influence imposed by Minhag E"Y on local minhog here</div><div><br></div><div>EG</div><div>When I was a boy, virtually all minyan men in mainline nusach Ashkenaz Shuls wore Tefillin duringChol HaMoed</div><div><br></div><div>The Ben-Yehudah Mivta was odd. I remember when we first heard a Professor from Israel using Modern Israeli pronunciation in shul over stanadrad AshkenazI and we thought it was hilarious. Now it is uniquitous.</div><div><br></div><div>Many Ashkenaz Shuls have abandoned Baruch Hashem L'olam at Ma'ariv</div><div><br></div><div>Of course some of these may be attributed to the Influence of the GRA and to the Rav A"H. But it seems that the E"Y influence is even more common. EG an Israeli who davens "nusach sefarad" skips Baruch Hashem L'olam. I don't believe this is due to the influence of Nusach Arizal, nor to the influence of the GRA. It appears to me that the most powerful common denominator is that Minhag E"Y has spread to American and changed nusach and minhog quite extensively within the last 50 years.</div></body></html>