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Re: IDF officer discharged for insulting Conservative and Reform Judaism( soc.culture.jewish)

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From: Sheldon Glickler
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:00
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In article <84dht4$qo5$1@news1.bu.edu>,
  simon1@bu.edu (Simcha Streltsov) wrote:
> X-Orig-MsgId: <84dhss$q4r$2@news1.bu.edu>
>
> Sheldon Glickler (sheldong5178@my-deja.com) wrote:
>
> : 1 - A debatable point that R & C caused millions of Jews to leave
> : Judaism (though that point is clearly arguable in the reverse;  that
> : they were the reason for the retention and for the attraction of new
> : converts).
>
> : vs.
>
> : 2 - Six million Jewish human beings slaughtered (which is clearly
not,
> : in any way, arguable).
>
> just nitpicking:
> the latest point is not true AFAIU, as the latest number of Jewish
> victims is 5.3 mln. Also, most authors for some reason do not count
> victims of USSR as "Holocaust victims", and AFAIK there is no
> reliable number for those.

Other than 700,000 innocent Jewish lives, what difference does that
make to the comparison of (1) and (2)?

>
> as to the comparison: again, what did the officer compare?

You answer my question first -- the one about the shoe on the other
foot.

Shelly

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