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- From: simon@school.enet.dec.com ("Curioser and Curioser...")
- Subject: Re: American Jews and Lubavitch
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.190812.6584@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: simon@school.enet.dec.com ("Curioser and Curioser...")
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.171712.5102@starbase.trincoll.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:08:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.171712.5102@starbase.trincoll.edu>,
- nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
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- >Now Habadniks are not communists, but their logic regarding
- >Jewish-Gentile relations is the same. Let the nation's
- >governors indeed declare that this is a Christian nation,
- >let the public schools once again require that Jewish
- >children participate in Christmas and Easter celebrations,
- >let the Pat Robertsons and Pat Buchanans (and their friends
- >on the Supreme Court) beat back whatever gains have been
- >made over the years toward separation of church and state;
- >then America's Jews will realize that their well-being
- >consists in withdrawing from the general society into..a
- >European-style ghetto with its own schools, etc. Intermar-
- >riage would vanish and most Jews would become baalei teshu-
- >va. One sure winner in such a scenario would of course be
- >Habad since it has already acquired considerable experience
- >in handling new arrivals (the fact that I admire and respect
- >this aspect of Habad's work is irrelevant).
- >
- >That, as I see it, is the logic behind the whole thing.
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- Being an atheist myself, and having a background of a Russian Jew
- who moved to the USA eleven years ago, and being privileged to
- have a Chabad rabbi (in Framingham, MA) as a friend for the last
- seven years, I can only say that the above is a nice conspiracy
- theory.
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- --
- Leo Simon simon@school.enet.dec.com
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- Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart.
- Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.
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- -- Attributed to many
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