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From: stern@steinmetz.UUCP (Harold A. Stern)
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Subject: Re: Re: Down to Brass Tacks
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 15:45:48 EDT
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> 
> Jews do not try to force their beliefs on non-Jews.  However orthodox Jews
> feel obliged to force the religion on secular Jews, if they are given
> the oportunity.  Israel is a clear example of these coercion efforts.
> -- 
> Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
> Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho

I seem to recall (although it was a long time ago, so I could be wrong)
seeing on the news pictures of Orthodox Jews in the US somewhere burning
Israleli flags. The idea was that they were against the government because
it was not Orthodox enough for them. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Also - as a sideline - an article in the Times spoke of efforts in Israel
to ban the production of pork and pork products - sounds like coercion
to me.

-harold A. Stern
GE CR&D
Schenectady NY   <--- don't ask me, I don't know where the hell Schenectady
			is, either

stern@kbsvax.decnet@ge-crd