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AddReply(419343,"The New Religion","Norman Cohen","Los Angeles","03/30/09","The new religion is secular leftist ideology, the new god is big government, and the new synagogue is the Jewish community center.  \"Jewish community\" because about 20% of the members are non-Jews.\nBut such a movement carries the seeds of its own demise.\nYou don\'t have to be a Jew to be a good Democrat or to like \nlox & bagels. And as we form new generations the memories of the shtetl, bubbe & zayde and Yiddishkeit fade away.    ");
AddReply(418094,"SarahRachel, do you want mamzerim?","dati leumi","Israel","03/26/09","The leniencies in giving a Get some women\'s groups demand will cause just that: mamzerim, children born by a married Jewish woman who conceived from a man not her husband. The women who re-marry after receiving false Gittin will be guilty of the transgression of adultery and their child will pay the price. According to Jewish law these children are severely limited to whom they can marry. Also, the cases mentioned in R. Horwitz\'s #19 post are not new cases. They are the total number of cases on the books. Having even one agunah is an unacceptable situation, but we must work within halachah to solve the problem. Eternal Jewish law cannot be broken or even bent because of our modern problems.");
AddReply(417953,"To Yvonne","Shy Guy","Jerusalem","03/26/09","Many things you wrote are historically and halachically wrong.\n\nA child born to a non-Jewish woman is not Jewish. Period.\n\nWhat historically led to the Reform movement in Germany some 160 years ago was not Jewish divorce laws. If anything, it was the temptation to marry the Christian girl next door and dine on pork and caviar with her.\n\nKing Solomon\'s wives were converted - every last one of them. Unfortunately for him and for us, some of these conversions were insincere. King Solomon is specifically blamed and called to accountability for this. See 1 Kings 11:9-13.\n\nFor more details on Solomon\'s wives see: Talmud-Shabbat 56b and Sanhedrin 21b. The Talmud especially criticizes Solomon\'s marriage to the Daughter of Pharaoh Necho of Egypt. While this marriage was a political coup for Solomon, the princess\'s secret idolatrous activities would sew the seeds for many problems to come.");
AddReply(417871,"#19 R Horwitz","SarahRachel","Los Angeles","03/26/09","Now why dont you add the numbers of women who have been in Agunot for YEARS, for DECADES?\n\nYou cannot cite one year\'s worth and say that any other number is an exaggeration. \n\nThere are literally thousands of women out there who are in Agunot and many have been for years and years.\n\nFix the corrupt and broken Gittin system. Do you expect women to just continue to put up with this nonsense, lay there like dogs and take it forever?");
AddReply(417700,"some strange effects...","yvonne","cary","03/25/09","Orthodoxy leads to holding a child responsible for the actions of the father. Many a child of a jewish man has heard, and repeatedly, *it would be better if you had never been born*, and sometimes it is the father who says this. He, however, does not leave his shiksa wife, and also absolves himself from any adult responsibility. The same attitude applies to jews who will not recognize that child as one of their own. This child is a jew according to Torah. It is a child according to genes and blood, name and neshama.It is a matter like this one, and the matter of the agunot which has led to the reform movement in the first place. Solomon married non jewish wives and their offspring were jews. So did Moses. To be unfaithful and leave one\'s wife is adultery. The man who does so and refuses to give his wife a get, is guilty. A matter of simple morality. Halacha should never be immoral.");
AddReply(417693,"a new religion?","yvonne","cary","03/25/09","I do not think that a new religion would serve any purpose. Reform would then be in almost the same category as *Messianic* *judaism*. But it should engage the orthodoxy to solve a few problems with orthodoxy, such as the issue of agunot. These women did not marry their husbands with the intent to be divorced. Most often it is the man who leaves such a marriage and then refuses to divorce his wife, leaving her in limbo. That does not only occur, by the way, in judaism. Other men also refuse to de facto divorce their wives, even after they obtain a legal divorce themselves. They form new families with their new wives, often serially, and constantly harass their first wives, financially and otherwise. Another problem is that of the child of a jewish man. HE decided to have offspring, not the child. To hold the child responsible and look down upon it, is irrational. Let us be rational.");
AddReply(417690,"REFORM"," HOWARD HERSH","JOHANNESBURG","03/25/09","A SEPERATE RELIGION -PERHAPS A NEW HOLY BOOK-INSPIRED WHOMEVER AND WRITTEN BY MAN-PERHAPS A NEW HOLY LAND-PREFERABLY AS FAR AWAY FROM ISRAEL AS WHAT THEY THEY BELIEVE IN IS FROM TORAH MI SINAI");
AddReply(417646,"Ford Foundation here too","Elisheva","Cleveland","03/25/09","The push for anti-Judaism models in Israel, such as reform, are funded by Ford Foundation, same as funds the Arab antijudaism propaganda mill. ");
AddReply(417602,"Two issues for Sarah Rachel","Shy Guy","Jerusalem","03/25/09","1. In Talmudic times, Chazal issued decrees against Tzedukim (Sadducees) and similar groups even though it applied to individuals who were born to Jewish mothers. On the other hand, many halachic authorities will state that today we cannot establish such new gezeirot (halachic decrees). Do the old decrees apply to today\'s heretical streams of Jews? I don\'t know.\n\n2. What would you like to see changed in the Jewish divorce process? I know I would like to see a pre-nup formally all would agree upon and a streamlining of the divorce Bet Din process, as well as strict enforcement tactics. Were you thinking of something else?");
AddReply(417559,"Exaggerated number of Agunos","r horwitz","Philadelphia","03/25/09","In 2007, an Israeli survey revealed that there only 180 cases of refusing-get husbands including 69 documented agunah cases. In contrast, there are 190 cases in which the wife refuses to give the husband a divorce.[7]");
AddReply(417388,"TRUE peace with arabs never possible!!","g stern ","uppa ","03/25/09","ISRAELI JEWS ARE DUMB AND ISRAELI RABBIS WHO THINK **TRUE** PEACE IS POSSIBLE WITH ARABS ARE DUMBER. HOW MANY MORE TIMES MUST \nHAMAS REPEAT THAT ALL JEWS MUST DIE AND ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP? GERMAN JEWS ALSO STUPIDLY DIDN\'T BELIEVE HITLER WOULD HOLOCAUST. CHAMBERLAIN\'S APPEASEMENT WITH HITLER WAS A DEATHLY FAILURE. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE TRUE PEACE, THERE MUST BE **TWO** HONESTLY WILLING PARTIES. THAT HAS NEVER BEFORE EXISTED AND DOES NOT NOW. HAMAS AND ABBAS IRREFUTABLY ARE JEW MURDERING TERRORISTS. THEY MUST BE KILLED AND ALL PALESTINIANS MUST BE REMOVED FROM ISRAEL, AS \"PROPHET\" RABBI KAHANE URGED. USING SOLELY UN-MANNED DRONE FIGHTER BOMBERS, GAZA AND WEST BANKS MUST BE 24/7 BOMBED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION UNTIUL THEY BEG FOR MERCY, RELEASE SHALIT AND START MOVING OUT OF ISRAEL FOREVER. THE ARAFAT MAUSOLEUM MUST BECOME RUBBLE AND THE BODY FED TO THE SHARKS.     ");
AddReply(417377,"hey #3 Dan","SarahRachel","Los Angeles","03/25/09","There would be no need for Blue Greenberg and JOFA if the Orthodox community would FIX the horribly corrupt and broken Gittin in the first place.\n\nBy refusing to fix the situation which leaves thousands of women in such a terrible state of Agunot, the Orthodox community has CREATED the need for JOFA to try to fix it themselves!\n\nFix it or live with the consequences of others trying to fix it. It\'s that simple.");
AddReply(417376,"They Would Have To Get Rid of Their BIRTH Status As Jews TOO?","SarahRachel","Los Angeles","03/25/09","Yes, they can declare themselves a separate religion, but HALACHA governs Jewish status issues like conversion and marriage in Israel.\n\nSo if they declared themselves a different religion, it wouldnt really matter because according to HALACHA they are still Jews if their mother\'s mother was a Jew. \n\nSince they have no way to remove that status at all, they would still be subject to the Halachic rulings they are subjected to NOW as Jews.\n\nThis is an issue which would have to be worked out. Even if the Reform declared that they are nullifying the halacha that a Jew is a Jew if he or she is born from a Jewish mother, the ORTHODOX which run the country would NEVER recognise such an attempt to change Halacha, and would still consider these people as Jews and subject to Halacha which the Rabbinate follows in governing Jewish status issues in Israel.\n\nSo then what? ");
AddReply(417242,"An orthodox Jew is not allowed to pray at Reform Temple","JK","NY","03/24/09","You are not allowed to pray at a reform temple .The omein yehe shmei rabbo that you answer and the omein, go directly to give strength to the kelipot, the other side called sitra achra, this is very clear from the teachings of our Rabbis from the previous generations.\nIt is better for you to pray at home.\nAbout the Jews that go there ,they are precious souls that need to be helped on the right path. ");
AddReply(417240,"Fivish on Piece Plan","Aubrey Wulfsohn","Leamington spa","03/24/09","Halachic and reform are mutually conttradictory. What\'s convenient on reform temples -  faivish can drive his car there on shabbos with no feeling of guilt?  He could pray just as well in a church.");
AddReply(417176,"Just like Christianity Reform created a completely NEW book called the OLD Test.","JMK","NYC","03/24/09","and just like Christianity and Islam is complete fiction, forgery and fabrication. ");
AddReply(417168,"Yes! Let these people go!","CDG","Yerushalayim","03/24/09","Let \'em go back to Egypt, if that\'s what they wanna do!\n\nSeriously, it\'s about time the die-hard \"Conservatives\" and \"Reforms\" declared the truth -- that their religion is a separation from Judaism. I have a suggestion for their new name: Assembly of Diversitism, or AD. \n\nHopefully this name befittingly pompous; it contains one of their favorite politically correct words (Diversity -- even though most of them come from Ashkenazim, which I find rather ironic) and is synonymous with Mixed Multitude, or, in Hebrew, Eirev Rav.\n\nAnd then, let the real Jews (and those who truly desire become Jews) sitting with them stand up and walk out! If I could do it, so can they.\n\nThank you, Rav Shafran, for informing us about this \"development.\" I hope it succeeds. Then they can stay separate from us once and for all.\n\nHaShem yimloch le\'olam va\'ed!");
AddReply(417159,"At loggerheads","Schvach","","03/24/09","A Jew is a person born to a Jewish mother, so says halacha.\nThe Reform and Conservative Movements will still be confronted with this fundamental assertion of Judaism, the old assertions and arguments will continue, and in the end nothing will have been solved, regardless of the declaration of a new religion.");
AddReply(417158,"\"have his faith and delete it too\" LOL","yaakov","","03/24/09","");
AddReply(417152,"Reform is a different religion, Kariaties different,","JMK","NYC","03/24/09","Christianity different, nobody except Jews fooling themselves were ever fooled by Reform nonsense. By the way Jesus and Mohammed NEVER existed and the Christian Bible and the Koran are 100% total and complete fictions. No god, No inspiration. ");
AddReply(417120,"\'Reform\' Judaism belongs in the Galut and should stay there.","Uzitiger","Cincinnati","03/24/09","Reform \'Judaism\' had no business in Israel.  It is a product of the galut and should stay there.  We have enough problems with the leftists undermining Israel\'s Jewish character and we don\'t need another movement to undermine our Jewish character with leftist idiotology they call Judaism.  The \'Reform\' movement follows the New York Times as law instead of Torah mi Sinai.");
AddReply(417118,"Be careful of criticizing the individuals","Jonathan","New York","03/24/09","I agree with this article 100%.  I grew up Reform and am a Baal Teshuva now.  \n\nMy only comment is for those posting the comments to show caution as indiviudals, not the \"Rabbis\" of \"Reform of Conservative\" might take the harsh comments very personally.   \n\nWe have to remember that a Jew is a Jew. \n\nLet us be the bigger person and criticize the Rabbi\'s opinion, but not \"reform jews\" or \"Conservative Jews\" as a whole.");
AddReply(417071,"They really are NO part of Judaism","","","03/24/09","The Reform movement & all the like have nothing to do with Judaism since they have disassociated themselves from Torah & Halacha.  Their main goal was to transform Yahadut to assimilate with other nations & their religions. Since Yahadut, Torah is not a religion, but the eternal truth (Emes), they really do not have a connection with the Jewish people, unless they repent.  They are what you call \'chotim u\'machtim\' (sinners who cause others to sin). There is no such thing as denominations in Judaism; either one observes the laws or doesn\'t. But, no one has the authority or right to change one iota of our Holy Torah.  It\'s only because of the ignorance of many Jews that this movement has had the impact to influence so many Jews. Read Rabbi Solomon\'s \"The ErevRav, 3000 years of Treachery\". All the isms that are here today started with the erev rav.");
AddReply(417070,"Reform & Conservative?","Irwin Ruff","US","03/24/09","This sounds like a good idea; it\'s finally admitting the facts. One thing should be avoided, though. If they want to break away and form their own \"religion\", be honest in naming it - nothing like \"Messianic Jews\" which is intended to confuse the difference.\nOne question that I would anticipate: should these people be treated as Jews, and if so, to what extent? Would they require conversion to become Jews, and would the status of ancestors who were members of this new sect have to be taken into account when one of their members wishes to become a Jew?");
AddReply(417014,"Reform by affiliation is not another religion","Fivish","London","03/24/09","Many halchic Jews such as myself attend Reform shuls as a convenience not as a conviction. There, at least 50% of the children are not and do not even consider themselves Jewish! WE attened and are observant no more or less than when we were members of an Orthodox shul. I do not see Reform as an alternative religion as only the upper enchelons of Reform hold extreme left wing views which may cause doubt on its validity as Judaism.   \n");
AddReply(416933,"\"Orthodox\" Feminism is also a separate religion","Dan","Jerusalem","03/24/09","Orthodox Feminism, e.g. Blu Greenberg & JOFA, is an attempt to destroy Judaism from within, by using the Agunot problem to overturn the laws of gittin.");
AddReply(416920,"What the Talmud Says","Randy Lazarus","Mitzpe Yericho","03/24/09","The Talmud had to react to many splinter groups in its day.  The approach is harsh, uncompromising, and, of course, victorious.  Lest our contemporaries want to be named among the likes of the Baitusim, they really should back down from this course of action.  Or maybe they\'d prefer for their children the fate of Mendelsohn\'s...");
AddReply(416889,"Deceptive to assoc term Judaism for groups that repudiate Halacha Moshe M\'Sinai ","moshe","tehachapi","03/24/09","Good point Rabbi Shafran,\nWhat right to claim the mantra of Judaism do groups who repudiate Torah/Halacha Moshe M\'Sinai have?\nthat they may happen to include many Jews by birth is no right otherwise:\ngreek helenism,\nislam when forced conversion,\nearly christianity,\ncatholic spain  that included many conversos and claimed replacement foolology, messianic\'s who think Yoska was more then any other Jew, \ncommunism and socialism had many weak Jews but were honest enough to not claim to be a branch of Judaism, with assimilation and sham conversions, soon % of Jewish people in reform movement may be less then % of Jewish moose club members.\n\n\n");

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