Re: Lebanon catches a break

On 2025-04-17 3:18 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <vtri5l$175q8$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:
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I wonder how censorship works with Odelya Halevi? The actress is a
Sephardic Jew, born in Israel. Her family emigrated from Yemen. The
character she plays on Law & Order is a Lebanese ethnic born in the
United States.

 

I just read that when she first came to the United States, she couldn't
speak English, but everyone in Israel learns English.

 hahahahah.  Plenty of folk in Israel don't even learn Hebrew (except
for the Biblical version. WHich is kind of like trying to converse
with an English speaking American but using terminology from the KJV
of the bible)
 

People educated in Canada are *supposed to* learn English and French to at least a moderate level but here in the English part of the country, a whole lot of people would deny any knowledge of French once they're out of school, at least in my generation. Mind you, French immersion schools, where the entire day is in French, has been very popular in this country for some time. The schools I went to when I was driving school buses were both French immersion schools, one public and one Catholic. (Ontario taxpayers fund both public/Protestant and Catholic schools until the end of high school.)
Maybe Halevi means to say that her English is very poor because it was a subject that didn't interest her back in her school days? A lot of my peers had that attitude when I was in school because they felt that they'd never use the language so it was a waste of time. (One exception to that was my classmate "Tex" who openly lusted for Mrs. Kennedy, the French teacher. His marks in French were abysmal but he loved to go to French class to enjoy Mrs. Kennedy, who had a passing resemblance to Raquel Welch.)
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Rhino