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To: Alouette

I always wondered if Eric Yoffie was a red diaper baby, or at least an SDS type back in the 60's. I can well imagine that he was involved in leftist protesting at whatever college he attended. Saperstein too, though he seems even more of a hard leftist, if that is possible.

Anyway, Yoffie, as the chief rabbi of Reform Judaism, is one of the reasons I stopped going to our Reform temple.

I've sometimes found fault with elements of the "Religious Right" myself, but I have to say that I don't see anyone over on the Religious Right comparing the Religious Left, of which Reform Judaism is a part, with Joseph Stalin and his many followers. And it's sure as hell a more apt comparison than that Hitler one made by Yoffie.

Yoffie needs to read the Torah, Genesis in particular, to see its take on homosexuality, if that book is still used as an authority by his denomination.


114 posted on 11/19/2005 4:58:19 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: Sam Cree

I parted company with the Reform movement back in the late '60's when I became involved in campus activism for Soviet Jewry. The rabbi of the Temple my family belonged to told me that Jews in the Soviet Union were "happy under Communism" and that only "fanatics" (i.e. Orthodox) were trying to stir up discontent.


118 posted on 11/19/2005 5:05:28 PM PST by Alouette (Gaza: Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum (thanx: Pettigru).)
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