Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!fsks
From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: The assimilated, the frum, and antisemitism
Message-ID: <1159@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 12:11:05 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.1159
Posted: Wed Mar 26 12:11:05 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 09:25:44 EST
References: <852@leadsv.UUCP> <691@hounx.UUCP> <1126@unc.unc.UUCP> <1439@mtuxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lines: 17
Summary: 

>Frank Silbermann writes:
>> Have you ever heard assimilated Jews speaking disparagingly of Orthodox
>> (esp. Chassidic) Jews?  If so, then try to find out why.  Whatever
>> reasons you can discover come up with will probably sound like the same
>> excuses gentiles have given for disliking Jews throughout history.

Adam Reed writes:
>I beg to differ. The only secular Jews whom I have known to bear any
>animosity toward the Orthodox, and especially toward the Haredim, were
>secular Israelis who personally suffered as a result of violent coercion
>practiced by the Haredim in Israel.

I wasn't thinking of Israeli Haredim, but the Orthodox here in America.
Maybe it's not full animosity, but I have heard and read of assimilated
Jews expressing frutration and annoyance when speaking of the Orthodox.

	Frank Silbermann