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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Yom Ha'atzmaut
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 17:19:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 17:19:54 1984
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 Dear Mr. Posner,
   As I remember, and I may be wrong, the only way to reinstitute smicha
is if all Jews agree on the person to be musmach. And even if it is only for
Israeli Jews to decide, then it applies only to those living in the 
Halachik boundaries of Israel, which are nothing like the present day
borders. And, even if it applies only to the Jews in the Halachik boundaries,
no matter how much you dislike the niturei karta ( and I like them even less),
they are Jews, and they live in Israel, and they'd never agree on a candidate
for smicha.

				elli teitz.