Y. L. Faynshteyn @derpayatz@masto.jews.international

@abgd @jessmahler @eladhen I have more, but it's important to note that sacred Hebrew and Israeli Hebrew are essentially different languages with VERY different uses, and (as someone who grew up in Israel) I do feel that diasporic communities should be able to pull on the language without giving special consideration to Israeli Hebrew and its speakers

A Palestinian person told me today that they have been trying to follow Queer Jewish facebook pages for a while but always something would happen and they would have to unfollow, but knowing it's me who runs my page helps them feel secure in it. ❤️

@kittybecca In other languages there was a state that enforced the standard language in schools etc, sometimes using deadly violence like in Italy and Spain

@jessmahler people sometimes get mad at the shit I talk about our Reform siblings

@geske love it

@jessmahler I grew up in Israel as a secular Hebrew speaker btw so I do remember we exist :)

I haven't lived there in more than a decade, however, so I have no idea what is being developed

I'm not too worried about the Orthodox; I'm more worried about how well those innovations integrate into the greater Hebrew grammar, phonetics, etc

Particularly given that there is a LOT more to Hebrew than the radically simplified version spoken in Israel, and many phonetic variants globally

@geske I am curious however what that actually looks like though. I've heard of such things but I've never seen them

@geske oy, idk if I went to chabad that would have the opposite effect of cooling my head lol. I guess it would redirect my anger...?

@jessmahler (and I say that as a Hebrew teacher in a Reform congregation so pls don't get mad)

@jessmahler Yeah I'm a descriptivist too. When I say properly, I mean in a way that is going to make sense enough to be adopted by a broad cross section of Jewish communities (including those with a high level of Hebrew literacy, i.e. not Reform)

We have a strong committee and support from the parts of the congregation and rabbinical team.

Hi all, I did end up getting fired from my synagogue—for organizing. But I'm getting my job back, because I've been organizing 😉

@geske how do you handle the different minhags of all those communities?

@jessmahler but also I 100% can't handle this site's aesthetic so nvm I guess

@jessmahler I'm going to have to learn about this as a Hebrew teacher but boy do I not trust anyone to do this properly

@kittybecca Also it's relevant that Yiddish Ashkenazi culture was successfully wiped out as a major presence in Europe. I don't think the Nazis were this successful with any of the other groups they targeted.