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From: samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet)
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Subject: Re: Re: Calling all Self-Righteous Orthodox (and I mean Right)
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 00:44:17 EST
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> Orthodoxy certainly does NOT constitute "a sect of Judaism today whose
> adherents without exception abide by this very clear Biblical precept."
> Nobody "excommunicates" orthodox Jews who don't follow the laws of
> kashrut as he or she happens to interpret them.  In fact, there is
> quite some latitude within the definitions of what Orthodox Jews on
> the one hand will eat, and on the other hand will condemn someone
> else for eating.  These remarks of Avi Gross are without foundation.
> 
> --J. Abeles

Pure ignorance. Excommunication by beis din is no longer practiced for
practical reasons, mentioned in the shulchan Aruch. Despite latitude, a
Jew CAN be excluded from the community in other ways for violating specific
precepts, including kashrus. Depending on the severity of his violation
a Jew can be invalidated, as a witness, not counted for a minyan, subject
to social sanction, not called for an aliya, denial burial places etc.

					Y. S.