Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: panix!wlinden@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Will Linden) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sotah 49a-49b Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 07:19:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [Will seems to be confused about something I also found a bit odd. The original comment was "I can not understand the rationale for claiming that an atheist who sneers at Torah and halakah but made the right choice of mother is somehow MORE Jewish than Moshe Rosen." Chris Redmond then explains to us that we are inappropriately using Christian concepts. You are Jewish if you are born Jewish. Of course this would leave the "Messianic Jews" Jewish, and it's the denial of this that started the whole discussion. --clh] THEN WHAT IS THE WHOLE %$@!%!@% CONTROVERSY ABOUT? It seems to be saying to "Messianic Jews"-- "You are Jewish because you were born Jews-- unless you say you are." -- Will Linden MCI: WLINDEN Internet: wlinden@panix.UUCP "On to the castle, to kill the royal UUCP: ...cmcl2!panix!wlinden family, and claim the throne that Compuserve: 72737,2150 isn't mine by right!"