Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!dcs From: dcs@homxa.UUCP (D.SIMEN) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Re: Smikha Message-ID: <204@homxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-May-84 14:40:27 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.204 Posted: Wed May 16 14:40:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 03:22:07 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 9 What makes one branch of Judaism "fraudulent"? Since when are there different "versions" of Judaism? I know of only one, although different branches stress the importance of mitsvot more or less -- more less than more in the Reform movement, more more than less in Orthodoxy and Conservatism. (I don't know enough about the Reconstructionist branch to comment on their view of mitsvot.) David (ben Mord'kai) Simen ...!homxa!dcs