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From: ornstein@fdcv09.DEC (Ian Ornstein PK03/2-28C DTN 223-9145)
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Subject: Re: Stop the anglo-saxon hebrew!!
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 09:28:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 09:28:21 1985
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	As far as I can remember, I have never expressed this in writing
before.  When I was eight years old, I began to learn at the "after school"
Hebrew School.  Our teacher was an imigrant, a displaced person who knew
very little english.  That first year I was taught, and attempted to learn,
Ahkenazim pronunciation which, of course was used for tephilot.

	The second year(@1951) our new teacher began to teach us  Sepharadit,
because that was how Hebrew was being spoken in Israel.  I have to tell you
that the confusion set me back some.  Years later, I was glad that I had
had the exposure because I can even understand the discussion today. My
emotions tell me though that we have lost something in our expressiveness.  

	As an adult, currently studying Hebrew in an Ulpan, I would prefer
to read the transliterated hebrew in "miftah Yisraelit."  If those regular
contributors would put aside their differences in this first step they would
receive the gratitude of those of us who are readers and trying to learn from
the message of the learned.
					Yitzhak Ornstein