[BrooklynGOP]

I don't know how the fact that you accept it is relevant here, apart from not being very suprising in light of what I was saying.

Well. You asked me. I told you. If now you don't find your own question to be relevant, then you have in fact caught your own tail :)

The Bolsheviks destroyed almost all the churches in Russia. The grunt of oppression was on the church, after the Bolshevik revolution.

Oh? There were quite a few churches in Odessa, but not a single temple (keep in mind, that odessa was 30-40% Jewish at one point)

I asked to confirm my guess about you.

That's a very good guess. Shows that you know that there were no temples and no Jewish schools in USSR, yet you still attempt to show that Bolsheviks were anti Christian, where in reality they were more anti religion (any religion). My grandmother's grandfather was a Rebbe. Not a Rabbi - a Rebbe (for those who don't know, in Hasidic branch of Judasm, rabbi is more like a priest - someone who does service in the synagogue, where Rebbe is more like a Bishop - a regional authority figure on religious issues). My grandmother went to a Jewish school in Ukraine before the revolution, and her whole family was quite religious. The only reason that I am not is... surprise, the revolution. You can rest assured that my kids will be much more religous that I am. So, kopchenaya kolbasa and etc, is quite temporary, even those who shop on brighton manage to give their kids opportunities to become more Jewish (so to speak) then they had..
I don't remember participating in that discussion, because the quesion is a weasely one, used to disown "atheistic" Jews.

Not at all. Being Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion.. You are even trying to prove it by saying that Jews that are not religious have something else in common?

LOL! You have caught your own tail, so far, and keep chasing it.

Guy, you need to chill out with a nice cold bottle of Baltika

[madrussian]

Well. You asked me. I told you. If now you don't find your own question to be relevant, then you have in fact caught your own tail :)

You told me and started to theorize why I asked you. I find it kind of amusing how you misinterpert the simplest of things.

Oh? There were quite a few churches in Odessa, but not a single temple (keep in mind, that odessa was 30-40% Jewish at one point)

How many temples were there before Bolshevik revolution, and how many churches?

That's a very good guess. Shows that you know that there were no temples and no Jewish schools in USSR, yet you still attempt to show that Bolsheviks were anti Christian, where in reality they were more anti religion (any religion).

Bolsheviks were anti-religion, but what motivated them right after the Bolshevik revolution, was destroying the traditional Russian culture. Christians were persecuted MUCH MORE than Jews, with thousands of priests executed and churches destroyed.

Not at all. Being Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion.. You are even trying to prove it by saying that Jews that are not religious have something else in common?

You'd have to do better than quote from your memory.

Guy, you need to chill out with a nice cold bottle of Baltika

I have finally found someone from Brighton Beach, who emigrated from Odessa. Finally my stereotypical Ukrainian Jew is on FR!