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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Who is a Jew
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Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:43:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 01:43:58 1984
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Read the damn article!  You specifically state:

An American Jew, for example, is very concerned with the fate and status
of a Jew in, say, the Soviet Union, but still has more  in  common  with
his Gentile neighbor or even with a Baptist from West Texas.

By definition you are not 'oheb Yisrael if you believe this.  Talk about
arrogance.  Its pure hutspah to suggest that either a 'adish Yisrael  or
sone'  Yisrael  has  a  right  to  input  about  the organization of the
community even if he does happen to be accidentally Jewish  (I  did  not
invent  the  concept;  I believe Cynthia Ozick did but she used the term
non-Jewish Jews).

This touches one of my main gripes against Ashkenazim.  For  almost  all
Sefardim  when  they hear or read about the sufferings of Ashkenazim, it
is like it happened to their own families.  When we tell the  Ashkenazim
about  our  sufferings,  for most Ashkenazim we could have been Martians
for all they seem to care.