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From: R. Feldman
Subject: Context tokens for gentile populations
Date: 20 Elul 5782
The chair believes we may have been overcomplicating this.
Our existing tokens are not exclusively for our communities. SHUL is a place of communal gathering and worship. This describes churches, mosques, temples. JRS is a geographic context. Gentiles also live in Jerusalem. The tokens are already inclusive.
What Dr. Rosenberg has helpfully identified is not a gap in the registry but a gap in our documentation. We should clarify that our tokens describe universal categories, not exclusively our own institutions.
If gentile communities find that our categories do not fully capture their needs, the specification provides a path: they may publish their own registries. We have built the infrastructure. They are welcome to use it.
I believe this addresses the concern. The registry is already diverse. We simply need to say so.
—Yaakov Feldman, Chair
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