Thursday, November 16, 2006
Jewish Temple Does Not Want to Caption
The "Temple of the Air" in Beverly Hills, California states in their captioning exemption petition that it would be "cost prohibitive" to closed caption a once a year, 30 minute program on Yom Kippur services. I thought that meant they were just a small program aired locally. I was wrong! Google unearthed a September/October 2006 newsletter at TempleoftheHearts.com that states "Temple of the Air will broadcast the Yom Kippur service for the homebound again this year on PAX TV to millions of viewers." Not only that, the same newsletter states that they are planning "state of the art" improvements to their facilities for future broadcasts and webcasts. Yet they say they can't afford to closed caption for 30 minutes a year? The FCC has not yet decided whether to grant their petition for a closed captioning exemption.
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Seriously I cannot fathom anyone located in Beverly Hills crying financial hardship.
Let alone a program that will be televised in PAX, boardcasting to millions of viewers, at a state of arts setting.
This request is downright insulting.
mishkazena
many jewish jokes come to mind.
Can I ask to be excommunicated from the Temple? Or is that an anti goyim request? The temple in Beverly Hills, one of the wealthiest communities in the United States, certainly has a lot of chutzpah for making this request.
I remember way back in the 1960’s when Israeli religious policy would not permit a deaf person to be part of the minyan for the temple service on the grounds that the deaf person would not have sufficient understanding of language to participate appropriately and comprehend what was going on. Needless to say, I was furious, and told my extended family I wanted nothing to do with Judaism until Israel atoned for this sin on Yom Kippur and change the policy. It has been changed since then.
And now this captioned exemption rap. I consider myself superior to all those Hebrew hearies because with a Hebrew interpreter, interpreting from the Hebrew language into ASL, I could follow the services conducted in Hebrew while most of the hearies faked their way through with mock facial expressions, lip babble like a puppet. and all, just like us deafies do all the time without interpreters.
Written by a deafie and proud of it!
The Christians do it so why not the Jews too? And the Muslims and the Buddhists and the .....
A lot of those requests for exemptions are from religious groups. All faiths!
So what you going to do? Whine and complain amongst yourselves? Or go to FCC and tell them you are opposed?
Actually... many Christian programs are captioned... I agree with the other bloggers that, hey, this shul is from Beverly Hills and they can't afford to pay for closed captioning? It probably cost less that what it would to provide one kiddush lunch... Which is a better mitzvot???
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