[Avodah] TIDE and Austritt

[Arie Folger]

RTK wrote:
> You keep defining austritt with reference to 19th c Frankfurt, where bitter
>   battles were fought between Hirsch's kehilla and the gemeinde Orthodox.  
> And btw  the latter would have had no shuls, no schools, no kosher food and
>  no mikva if not for Hirsch's establishment of austritt

That is not true. The Grosse Gemeinde turned around in 1842, after 12 years of 
R hegemony, and the IRG was only established in 1851. The IRG was established 
on Austritt, even before RSRH became its leader 2 yeats later.

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