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size=2>From: "Richard Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com><BR>>>I see
little evidence that RSRH would have taken a pro-Zionist stance. Then<BR>again,
I would venture to say that if had lived during the Nazi ysv regime<BR>he might
have dropped Austrit. AISI the Holocaust changed a lot of
minds<BR>about a lot of things.<<<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>I doubt that Hirsch would have been a Zionist but he would have seen
developments in E'Y in a positive light. As for austritt, I don't see what
the Holocaust has to do with it or why it would change anyone's mind on that
subject. Reform and Conservative remain outside of halacha and nothing the
Germans did changes that. I've heard people say, very emotionally, "How
can you not consider me Jewish? Hitler would have killed me!" --
because of a Jewish grandparent, say. Nevertheless, if the person is not
Jewish, he's not Jewish, and if something is not halachic, it's not
halachic. Hitler is not our posek. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>The famous psak forbidding joint membership in a body that includes
Orthodox and non-Orthodox clergy was issued after the Holocaust
IIRC.<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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