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From: dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green)
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Subject: Re: Message to non-ultraorthodox Jews re: fundraising
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 13:11:21 EDT
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> The current non Orthodox movements are at best 200 years old.  We know that
> the 'arcane belief structure called Halacha' has kept Jews together through
> some rough times.  

Two questions:
1. How old is the so-called "orthodox" movement? 
2. How does Halacha keep Jews together through rough times?

> I do not have the figures, so I am only making an opinion: the rate
> of assimilation has been growing in the last 100 years, until today it is
> a major problem.  Could it be that the rate is higher as the restrictions
> of Halacha are relaxed.  One can only look at the record of the early Reform
> movement, where, to make Jews more like everyone, Shabbat was *moved* to
> Sunday.  
> Michael L. Schneider

Are you trying to say that only non-orthodox Jews assimilate?
Shalom,
Dovid HaMelekh, Chelm Hill, New Joisey.
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