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Article #156Re: IDF officer discharged for insulting Conservative and Reform Judaism( soc.culture.jewish)
From: Sheldon Glickler
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:00
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$2@news1.bu.edu> > > Sheldon Glickler (sheldong5178@my-deja.com) wrote: > > : 1 - A debatable point that R & C caused millions of Jews to leave > : Judaism (though that point is clearly arguable in the reverse; that > : they were the reason for the retention and for the attraction of new > : converts). > > : vs. > > : 2 - Six million Jewish human beings slaughtered (which is clearly not, > : in any way, arguable). > > just nitpicking: > the latest point is not true AFAIU, as the latest number of Jewish > victims is 5.3 mln. Also, most authors for some reason do not count > victims of USSR as "Holocaust victims", and AFAIK there is no > reliable number for those. Other than 700,000 innocent Jewish lives, what difference does that make to the comparison of (1) and (2)? > > as to the comparison: again, what did the officer compare? You answer my question first -- the one about the shoe on the other foot. Shelly -- Please reply to sheldon + lg@earthlink.net. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1552e4,dc45e1d400da9166 X-Google-Attributes: gid1552e4,public From: Sheldon Glickler <sheldong5178@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: IDF officer discharged for insulting Conservative and Reform Judaism( soc.culture.jewish) Date: 1999/12/29 Message-ID: <84dsbd$aim$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 566216279 References: <83tktm$ng4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991223224255.01753.00001392@ng-bk1.aol.com> <8488r3$h6r$2@news1.bu.edu> <joel-2712991852010001@ip204.baltimore25.md.pub-ip.psi.net> <84anel$dro$3@news1.bu.edu> <joel-2812991356030001@ip58.baltimore20.md.pub-ip.psi.net> <386910ea.7461451@news.erols.com> <84d2dh$o2f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84dht4$qo5$1@news1.bu.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x28.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 63.64.185.2 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 29 21:02:38 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDsheldong5178 Newsgroups: bu.localpostings X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)