Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lcuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!lcuxc!kenw From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Halacha as Misnomer? Message-ID: <306@lcuxc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 08:20:05 EST Article-I.D.: lcuxc.306 Posted: Tue Feb 26 08:20:05 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:53:24 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 23 References: <16@unc.UUCP> <3780010@csd2.UUCP> <874@cbdkc1.UUCP>, <502@sfmag.UUCP> <273@lcuxc.UUCP> > >> Would you perhaps like to inform some of us well-intentioned >> people of the "extent of the misnomer," i.e., Conservatism using >> the term "halacha"? Try if possible to avoid the comments about >> driving to shul on Saturday; counting women in a minyan; and the >> RA's admission of women rabbis to membership. I for one would >> like to hear some new variations. I'd like to know a bit more >> about how I imperil my share of the Olam Haba by davening on >> Shabbos in a Conservative shul (not temple). > The misnomer is roughly similar to calling your remarks "well-intentioned". Y.S. That's not an answer. -- Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research @ Livingston lcuxc!kenw "Maybe, and that's final!"