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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If teaching Hebrew makes Sela a "Jewish" school, then apparently the exact same logic would make any school that teaches Spanish a "Catholic" school, since most people who speak Spanish are Catholic.

Faulty logic.[/quote]

Oh wow, the real faulty logic here is clearly yours.  Spanish has not been kept alive by Catholicsm--you might have had a point if you had said Latin. Might.

The Hebrew language only exists today because of Judaism, and spoken Hebrew was 'reborn' in the 20th century. [/quote]

Ladino is an centuries-old Spanish-based language kept alive by Jews.  Yiddish is centuries-old German-based language kept alive by Jews.

History shows that Jews aren't just about keeping Hebrew alive.

And, in fact, Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish are all Latin-based languages that were kept alive for hundreds of years from the fall of the Roman Empire by monastic scribes who were part of the Catholic church, promoted through various powerful Catholic institutions to include the Holy Roman Empire, to its successive kingdoms and monarchic dynasties that split off from Charlemagne's heirs, all swearing allegiance to the Catholic Church, and which still had significant influence right into the last 100 years.

Brush up on your history.

You really won't win any arguments about who's keeping what alive if you are going to selectively pick and choose your arguments.[/quote]

It's Friday night. You high on something? There seems to be a disconnect between your words and the actual origin of Romance languages.[/quote]

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