Kesher Talk

Minister bans gossip in church: I saw this Anova item and immediately thought of shuel instead. There are pluses and minuses to this sort of edict. On the plus side, you discourage the breaking of L'shonhora (Jewish rules on appropriate and inappropriate speech). But at the same time, the synagogue is supposed to be a meeting place, where both the essentially secular Jew and the highly observant can come and be part of the community. As far as I am concerned, as long as folks are babbling outside the prayer hall itself (i.e. not disturbing anyone), I see no problem with it.

posted by Howard @ 5/28/2002 02:16:32 PM