charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) (09/13/85)
In article <3770004@csd2.UUCP> martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo) writes: >Needless to say the Sefardi population of the Soviet Union never left >Judaism and none have converted to Russian Orthodoxy. I hate to quibble, but "none have converted" is a blanket statement. Since I don't believe that you have knowledge of every Sefardic Jew who has lived in the Soviet Union, I will assume that you must have meant "fewer Sefardi than Ashkenazim converted," or something like that. Which is interesting, if it could be supported independently, perhaps from Soviet censuses. (On second thought, anyone's assertion is at least as reliable as a Soviet census.) But what's it doing in net.religion.christian, anyway? It looks like a discussion of Jewish history and society to me. (I know it started out as a discussion of the Trinity, but the last few postings have left that subject altogether.) charli