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- From: jjsulliv@COLBY.EDU (Nice Young Lady(tm))
- Subject: Re: Conversion Question
- Message-ID: <9211191341.AA28592@host0.COLBY.EDU>
- Originator: scj@israel.nysernet.org
- Sender: scj@israel.nysernet.org
- Reply-To: <jjsulliv@COLBY.EDU (Nice Young Lady(tm))>
- Organization: Nysernet
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:38:41 GMT
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- stephenp@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stephen Phillips) writes
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- >In-Reply-To: <11Nov92.023342.14066@granite.ciw.edu> cohen@quartz.ciw.edu (Ronald
- > Cohen)
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- >> +From : cohen@quartz.ciw.edu (Ronald Cohen)
- >> +Subject : Re: Conversion Question
- >
- >> In article <92315.121602YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Yaakov Kayman <YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNE
- >> wr
- ites:
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- >> I think Rambam had the right point of view on this. He states
- >> that one should not investigate a family to see if they are
- >> Jewish if they claim so. Their claim should be accepted unless
- >> they are mean-spirited, in which case the presumption is that
- >> they are not Jewish!
-
- >This may have been the case in the Rambam's day when such things as
- >Conservative and Reform didn't exist. But today, when I believe that
- >the majority of the Jews in the U.S. belong to one or other of these
- >movements, I don't think that one can so easily make such assumptions
- >as to a person's Jewishness, especially, as I have said above, when
- >it is fairly easy to check up on these things.
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- Hm.. I have yet to see a book of Jewish history that denies that, whatever
- they called themselves, there have always been various sects/cultic groups
- within Judaism. I doubt Rambam's time was an exception.
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- JJ
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