Ron Schorr (rwwschorr@...) asked: What does "Cong. Adas Israel Anshei Galicia Menach Sfard" mean?
"Adas" (other spellings: Adath, Edat) means "community of" and is related to the Hebrew word for "witness". "Anshei" means "men of", in this case Galicia distinguishing them >from the men of someplace else. "Menach" no idea. never heard of it. Maybe someone else out there has. "Sfard" This does not mean they are of Sefardic ancestry but that they use a Hasidic siddur which has Sefardic features.
I suspect that "Menach" is actually "Nusach", again referring to the form of the siddur. See e.g. the Wikipedia article on "Nusach Sefard".
Robert Israel israel@... University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
