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From: jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Down to brass tacks...
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 09:47:38 EDT
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> There are groups that (regretfuly, and in contradiction to the
> Torah command of 'love your brother as yourself') hate non-observant
> Jews, other groups that try and encourage (NOT force) these Jews
> to become more observant, and there are groups who just ignore them.

In the US orthodox Jews do not have the power to impose their way
of life on other Jews.  In Israel, on the other hand, the orthodox,
who take advantage of the Israeli parliamentary system,  relentlessly,
try to coerce the secular Jewish society.  The policy of religious
coercion is a standards policy of the religionist parties.  This
policy is supported by all orthodox organozations in Israel, and
probably in the US.  So the above statement that orthodox groups
only encourage and not force other Jews to become more observent
is groundless.

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Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho