Hello Ben: I hate to say it ... but it depends! Who are the Deaf people that you would be serving? Would they already be speakers of ASL, or might some of them be Israeli? The Deaf shul-goers that I know here in Boston are primarily speakers of ASL, who prefer to have services signed in ASL (and they themselves davven in ASL). It would seem logical to use Israeli Sign Language as an equivalent to an English-speaking person using Hebrew in synagogue, but that is not what I've seen in actual practice thus far. Since religious vocabulary in ASL tends to be heavily Christian-influenced, there are a good number of loan words that have migrated into ASL from Israeli Sign Language for use in Jewish contexts -- but they are different and separate languages. The book "Signs in Judaism: A Resource Book for the Jewish Deaf Community" by Adele Kronick Shuart has been very useful to me, despite it not being so new (Block Pub Co, 1986, 0819705055, ISBN-13 978-0819705051). Best, Kimberley Shaw Wellesley College Language hard-of-hearing since birth, learning ASL since 2003
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