People have been schmoozing in shul for centuries if not millenia. Akuperma:- This is 1/2 correct but also 1/2 incorrect. Unfortunately as you said this became such a rampant problem in Ashkenazik Shuls, that this is often proffered as 1 of the reasons why a holocaust was necessary; On the end of the spectrum, this was an almost non extant problem in Sephardii Shuls, and hence that for the most part, Sephardi were just about totally spared from the Holocaust.
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