[SJackson]

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A very disappointing statement given the source.

[SJackson]

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Why many Jews might feel the Orthodox do hate them

[spanalot]

On the behalf of Poles, Ukrainians, Brits, Latvians, etc - Welcome to the Club.

[Alouette]

The Reform go ballistic whenever anyone utters a criticism of their doctrine du jour but I can not recall them ever making a kind or conciliatory comment about Jews who do not support their agenda.

Remember when Eric Yoffie compared Orthodox Jews (and also evangelical Christians) to the Taliban? And he refused to apologize.

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[Zionist Conspirator]

"The Reformers started in Germany," he explained. "Those redactors of the Jewish faith began in Germany. We learn from this that it is forbidden to attempt to change Judaism."

Rabbi 'Eliyyahu (`ad me'ah ve`esrim shanah) is far from the only Orthodox Jew to make this claim about the connection of Reform's German origins and Churban 'Europa'. Many, many Orthodox rabbis ('Ashkenazim as well as Sefaradim) have made the same point.

I agree with Alouette that Reform doesn't practice what it preaches in the brotherhood department.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Rav 'Eliyyahu's official web site.

[Wormwood]

Apparently, there's a Pat Robertson for every religious movement.

[Cicero]

No one can be blamed for the Holocaust but the people who did it.

But there is a kernel of truth in this. I have not read the offending comments, but it is true that some prominent reformed Jews were in the forefront of leftist movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Communism and its predecessors. They were active in the 1848 revolution, they were active in the 1917 revolution, they were responsible for the bloody Communist coup in Hungary in the 1930s, and they were among the Russian invaders who slaughtered assorted Poles and others during the Second World War. Middle Europe was a battleground between Nazis and Communists, and a lot of people were caught in the middle.

When Hitler came in, assorted nationalists went after the Jews, whom they blamed for the previous wave of persecutions. Unfortunately the easiest Jews to go after were the ones who wore characterist Jewish dress, although they were not Communists and had nothing to do with the earlier crimes.

The crimes of prominent Communist Jews did not cause the Holocaust, but they did add to the hatreds and misunderstandings that led to later persecutions of completely innocent Jews, only because they were Jews.

Whether it’s productive to say these things, I don’t know. But sometimes the sanctimoniousness of the extreme left makes it hard to resist.