On Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:10 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: > On 15 Mar 2003 at 22:59, Han Tacoma wrote: > > > My opinion is that the French have the same misgivings as the American > > Jewish community has:
I retract my _generalization_ of the American Jewish Community in the context that I used it. When I quoted from the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/national/15JEWS.html?th I choose only one of the four (4) branches that Hannah Rosenthal, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs described, -- Reconstructionist; Reform; Conservative; and Orthodox, in the article to make the point: "the United States had 'gravely weakened the institutions of internationalism so painstakingly erected after the Second World War'." > > > > | But some Jews are increasingly concerned about the lack of > > | widespread international support for a pre-emptive strike, and > > | skeptical that the United States can create a stable post-war > > | government in Iraq. > > | > > | Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological > > | Seminary of America, the academic and spiritual center > > | of Conservative Judaism, said at a lecture this week, "We live in a > > Ahem. Some points - he is conservative. His views also only reprisent > a proportion of the *conservative* Jewish views. (I am Masorti, which > is roughly the UK equivalent of Conservative). Please don't read any > major (or even minor) overall Jewish stance into his viewpoints. I realize that Rabbi Schorsch's views are his. While you don't indicate what you mean by "proportion" (i.e. a percentage), it seems to me that you are using the word as an implication -- that it is a minority -- to justify your opinion that one should not read a stance. While holding the posistion he does, I would hardly see him offering a view that would contradict the feelings of the majority of that branch of conservatives, and therefore I accept his statement as representative of that branch. Cheers! -- Han Tacoma ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
