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OHI Isaac Rose 23 July 82 sl:20 city, another community, and they ' ll hear that they ' re doing things this way .. and they bink .. oh , that ~ght be a good idea. And they try to incorporate it here. Whether it ' s to the liking of the congregation or not, well, [they say] "Well, if it works out over there, why shouldn't we try it here?" SF So it's an aggressive community then? IR Well, et ' s put it as 'living.' It ' s very much alive. And if you're alive, you can expect problems , changes. SF Do you like that? IR WEll, yes and no. Certain things I do • certain things I don ' t . ..) Basically, I say , that trying to go with the stream and trying tomake too many changes-- pretty soon you ' regoing to lose every-thing. I read about 20 years ago a book , I ' ve forgotten the title. The author's name was Browne . He wrote severl books about the Jewish life and the Jewish custom . And on ebook I shall recommend is titled Stranger than Fiction . I~ deals with the Holocaust. It must have been written in the early ' SOs because I read it about 20-25 years ago . He said about the Reformed people , the Reform movement, is that they had a very strong tendency to go back to the tradition. They figured they went too far out and if they they were going to keep on this way , there will be nothing left. Let me give you an example . There is a seminar (or a rabbinical school, you could it _), in Cincinnati , which is run by the Reform movement. I understand several years ago , a group of students ~u~~;f\ ~ for the _!'~ b • ""-:~ ~- under the Reform rabbis, insistedon having kosher food every day. They installed