Thursday, March 30, 2006

Rabbi Scroll TextWord

Chana posts about a company called TextWord who publishes "High school textbooks of distinction that promote academic excellence and preserve traditional family values."

TextWord happens to be owned by Mesorah Publications aka ArtScroll. After all, textword.com is registered as follows:

Registrant:
MESORAH PUBLICATIONS
4401 STREET ADDRESS
BROOKLYN, NY
US

Domain Name: TEXTWORD.COM

Administrative Contact:
Zlotowitz, Meir meir@MESORAH.COM
Mesorah Publications
####
Street Adress
Brooklyn, NY
US


Technical Contact:
MESORAH PUBLICATIONS meir@mesorah.com
#### Street Adress
BROOKLYN, NY
US
This is interesting, but I am not making any kind of claim about it, you know, that they aren't open about the fact that the two companies are one and the same. After all, all this info is readily available online (although I did remove their contact info).

TextWord, according to Chana, presents literature so that it can be incoporated into yeshivos without traumatic expressions like אלהים אחרים "ye gods," which are so antithetical to Jewish values. Therefore TextWord cuts up Shakespeare and the like. Chana points out that their literature never points out that they do this.

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