Israel’s new education minister has likened intermarriage among North American Jews to the Holocaust in a recent Cabinet meeting.
A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that “assimilation is like the Holocaust” in a July 1 session.
Peretz is leader of a religious nationalist political party and former chief rabbi of the Israeli military.
Much of the American Jewish community abides by more liberal streams of Judaism, whereas Orthodoxy prevails among Israeli Jews.
Relations between North American Jews and the Israeli government have been strained in recent years after plans for a mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall were scrapped in 2017, and over differing opinions about President Donald Trump.
(AP)
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Does YWN have to publish every AP story? The comparison is accurate.
Incorrect comparison. We are losing more Jews to intermarriage than from Hitler.
The truth hurts, but it’s much worse than the holocaust. In the holocaust, the Nazi’s Ym”s destroyed our bodies. The plague of assimilation destroys the nishama.
If he considers intermarriage on level with holocaust, I’d love to hear his thoughts on child sex abuse.
Reb Noach Weinberg made that statement many years ago.
It id a spiritual holocaust, and more yidden are being lost to intermarriage than from the Nazis ym”sh.