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| (...) Or me either. You Americans don't know how lucky you are to at least have SOME degree of separation between the two. In Israel the two are totally mixed, wisted and intertwined to a horrible and utterly disgusting mess. The orthodox Jews have (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Err, just to make myself clear - I don't mind teaching the bible, as long as it is taught as a foundation to our country (Israel) and not as a practice we should all believe in. I also believe that it should not be enforced after grade school (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The Plagues, I guess. I think that's a great way to teach religious things in school. If you want to believe that a higher power caused them, knowing how the power did it should only reinforce your belief in the power (by saying that not only (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) One that always does get me a bit of a laugh is that Massachusetts had the "blue laws" longer than the south. They didn't START to be dismantled totally until the 70s (in the late to mid 70s they broke down and allowed stores to open on Sunday (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) They finally figured out that "banned in Boston" made the book they were banning a bestseller. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:52:01 GMT "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Mormon bashing again': (...) sad, but true. On the other hand, Israel is, and was always defined, as a JEWISH state. So total and complete seperation was never (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:58:58 GMT "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Mormon bashing again': (...) exactly, I agree. I was never tought that "I should believe in the bible", not even by the part of my family that _is_ religious. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yes, but where do you draw the distinction between Jewish by heritage and Jewish by religion? I'm Jewish by lineage, but I am not Jewish by religion. Are all heritage-Jewish people in Isreal automatically assumed to be religion-Jewish? If not, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, that's also what happened with Mark Twain's _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, from what I heard on a PBS program... --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Here in Texas, we were finally able to buy hardware on Sundays starting in the mid-1980s. The only remnants of the blue laws that are left that I can think of are (1) no purchase of alcohol (in wet localities) on Sunday until noon and (2) car (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) How about kibbutzim? (sp = pluralize, btw) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Susan has that answer. (...) On a kibbutz, everything is community property, you personally own nothing. On a Moshav, you cooperate to produce a product/products, and the profit is divided to do with what you will. -John (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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