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From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span></div>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Culture"</span><br><span><br></span>Dear Ron,<div><br><div><div>You wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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In Israel, there is now a new kosher mobile telephone on the market,
specifically designed for ultra-orthodox people. The interface is in
Yiddish, and access to "inappropriate" sites is blocked so as to remove
temptation.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please don't refrain...what do you think personally of such an evolution? Is this wishful?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><div> <br>----------<br><br><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
Subject:
Culture<br></div><big><small><br>Thank you for the question, dear Luc.<br><br></small></big><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">Please don't refrain...what do you think personally of such an evolution? Is this wishful?</span><br>
</div><br>Refrain from what? Not speaking candidly, personally?<br><br>I would be lying if I said that I, like most other non-orthodox Jews, did not have problems with many aspects of <font size="2">Ḥ</font>aredi (חֲרֵדִי, ultra-orthodox Jewish) views, especially with those <font size="2">Ḥ</font>aredim of the West Bank settler type and those that, although they don't even recognize the State of Israel, want to dictate Jewish life there and elsewhere. However, aside from politics, I am not paying lip service when I say that, despite enormous differences between them and me, I respect them and their views with regard to their own choices, just as long as they do not dictate those choices outside their own world.<br>
<font size="2"><br>Ḥ</font>aredim, like most other orthodox Jews, take a literalist view of the Scriptures, while most non-orthodox Jews take a metaphorical view and assume that the Scriptures are man-made, albeit "divinely inspired." Unfortunately, there is that great gulf between us. Non-orthodox Jews by far dominate in the USA, home of a little above half of the world's Jewish population of close to 13 million. Jewish Israel is mostly divided between a non-religious majority and an (ultra-)orthodox minority that has been given more than its fair share of power. This, and the fact that the <font size="2">Ḥ</font>aredim are procreating rapidly (if not "rabbitly"), has been increasing the divide between us American Jews (many of whom are leftish and leftists) and currently mostly rightist Jewish Israeli politicians in power. Please stay tuned for the next chapter.<br>
<br>To give you a comparison, I ask you to examine your Christian <i>Weltanschauung</i> (if any) <i>vis-à-vis</i> extremist Christian Fundamentalists.<big><small><br><br>And please take all this as a personal, marginal postscript (though Judaism is not totally irrelevant to the Lowlands).<br>
<br>Thanks for the interest!<br></small></big>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA<br><br><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">
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