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face=Arial>From: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <A
href="mailto:rygb@aishdas.org">rygb@aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>>> When frum
Jews call non-frum or less-frum Jews "Erev Rav," or "Nazis,"<BR>or "Amalek,"
they are engaging in MSbP. They are defining themselves and<BR>rationalizing
anything they might be doing by dehumanizing others. <<</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>There are no frum Jews who characterize /all/ non-frum Jews as "erev rav"
let alone "Nazis." </DIV>
<DIV>Bit of a straw man you've set up there.</DIV>
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<DIV>Certainly many of the Russian olim who have had some kind of semi-kosher
gerus for the sake of Israeli citizenship are, in fact, erev rav. In
America, the non-Jewish wives of Jewish men, and their offspring, who are
considered "Jews" by the Reform movement -- they are certainly erev
rav. The cruel and hard-bitten policemen who beat up passing men in the
vicinity of any demonstration just because those passersby "resemble" the
demonstrators (i.e., have beards and payos) are sometimes called Nazis by their
angry victims. Likewise, some of the kids who were beaten, in Amona
and in the tragic Gaza expulsion, by soldiers and police -- some of them yelled
"Nazi" at those who beat them. I think I have pretty well exhausted
the range of occasions on which frum Jews ever refer to any non-frum Jews as
"erev rav" or "Nazis."</DIV>
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