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- Date: Sunday, 22 November 1992 14:38:27 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
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- Subject: Re: Conservative vs. Orthodox Halacha (was Conversion Question)
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- In <1992Nov12.175344.16158@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, friedenb@birch.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) wrote:
- # Let's face it, the only minyanim that hold to C halacha is at JTS.
- # Individual synagogues have "Ritual Comittees" of laymen making
- # halachic decisions.
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- You may be glad to be wrong; Beth Joshua in Scottsdale was founded
- with a charter reserving traditional decision-making authority to
- it's rabbi. Odd bunch; they are refugees from congregations with
- dominant machers and heavy-duty politics.
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- The rabbi, David Mayer, is an Israeli educated at an Orthodox
- yeshiva, and considers himself somewhat of a missionary to the
- decaying American Jewish community.
-
- --- D. C. Sessions Speaking for myself ---
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