JewterpretorJan 7, 2023

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A short #JWHIA #SchoolLetter! Lots of #names, some #OldFriends, and tasty #snacks If I skip something you are curious about, @ me. Onward!

#Gveret (also #Geveret, #Giveret, G'veret) /'g(ə)veret (Hebrew)/ = lady, madame, Ms. (can be used as a title)

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🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll (@[email protected])

#DearTeachers, I can hardly believe I am writing to you again, but we are finally at the final holiday in the #Christian #Holiday #Season. (No wonder Geveret Di Pasquale looks so tired— she must be exhausted from all the yom tov prep!) This chag is the 12th day of the #Christmas season, best known as Yud Bet Christmas. #Christians often call it “Epiphany”. Some #Christian minhags state that Yom #Epiphany is the day after Yud Bet Christmas, thus Yud Bet Christmas may be Erev Epiphany. 1/x

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Show threadJewterpretorJan 2, 2023

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#Gveret (also Geveret, G'veret) /'g(ə)veret (Hebrew)/ = lady, madame, Ms

(but see Gever, below!)

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🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll (@[email protected])

Dear Geveret Smith, I am writing to address some concerns that you expressed in your letter about the class #holiday activities held over the past week. First of all, I want to express that our #PublicSchool loves ALL our #students. We have a #diverse #student body, we hold #diversity training every year, and we prioritize being good #allies to our #Christian students. 1/x

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Show threadJewterpretorJan 2, 2023

It's my understanding that in modern Israeli Hebrew, 1) #Gever and #Gveret aren't actually equivalent: Gveret is a title but Gever isn't, it just means "man," and the titles used instead are Mar (=Mr) or Adon (=Mr, Lord); but also 2) people default to first names in most contexts and don't really use title+surname as a common form of address.

The JWHIA folks do everything intentionally, so what's up? some hypotheses:

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