@Neville ChaimBerlin post #1698545 regarding rural NJ or NY and others
Because while everyone else is fleeing the Northeast, we don’t understand how you can stay up there. The history of the US is filled with various groups building their own towns everywhere. Granted, it was easier back before an overbearing government unlike now.
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You can go out to any town in the South or the West and lone Jewish merchants set up shop in the 1800’s and practically founded the local economy. Some towns were said to be downright excited when a Jewish dry goods store came and opened. Without the Chabad house of today on the college campus or just plain hicksville, what of their few descendants? Just ignore them and let them vanish? I see these arguments in other threads about intermarriage, and in 10 more years it’ll likely be too late.
While certain “denominations” are “converting” people en masse, is it really a worthy discussion to state that we should let the Jewish community of Hicksville Nebraska expire? This argument is diametrically opposed to the Rebbe who sought to rekindle Judaism after the Holocaust. Historically, this wasn’t even a popular argument even before the War.
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