Posted on 12/01/2019 9:13:25 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Arutz Sheva spoke with Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), at a gathering of its Standing Committee in Geneva, Switzerland.
How more challenging and scary has being a Jew in Europe become?
"It's very challenging, as an individual and as a community."
You're referring to fears of anti-Semitism?
"Yes. We witnessed an attack on Yom Kippur in eastern Germany, not ISIS - Neo-Nazis. In the last years, no Jews were killed by neo-Nazis in Europe. It's a whole new phenomenon."
"We have problems today from the left and the right and the center. This is beside the attacks on religious freedom, against shechita (ritual slaughter) and bris milah (circumcision)."
And is there anything that could be done? It seems like it's a phenomenon for generations of course.
"We're there and we're fighting. We're fighting but sometimes it's not an easy fight. The main thing is to get support from our communities and from our allies."
Do you think that some countries will really legislate against shechita and bris milah? Or is it just declarations?
"No. It's a real problem. If we don't do anything, it's possible that in many countries in Europe, bris milah will be forbidden and then that's the end of an organized Jewish community in those cities and countries.
"We're seeing that the Muslim world is also opposing this legislation. Maybe you can say that the Jews and Muslims are on the same side on this point.
"We may be collateral damage. We Jews lived in Europe for over a thousand years and no one said a word about bris milah. It is only because of the immigration of millions and millions of people from the Middle East that we have problems today. We are the collateral damage."
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Besides the US, there isn’t any country that by default circumcises new-born boys, not even any Muslim country
Male circumcision is about hygiene. I can't conceive of any use for the female variety, other than the oppression of women.
“It is only because of the immigration of millions and millions of people from the Middle East that we have problems today”
Which the Jews of Europe pushed for relentlessly in the aftermath of WWII.
And continue to.
Must be weird living with that contradiction in their heads: what they claim as a central virtue turns out to be their main threat. Lethal cognitive dissonance.
Yet too many American Jews will continue to vote for those who will do nothing to stop this.
It would appear Europe doesn’t want any Jews. Do do seem to love them some muslims, though.
In ten to twenty years they will be surprised at the skyrocketing incidence of penile cancer, balanitis, phimosis, paraphimosis and STDs among uncircumcised males.
The Jews of Europe were no longer in Europe in the aftermath of WW II. Go find yourself a different scapegoat. Angela Merkel has someone pulling her strings, but it isn’t the Jooos!
Funny. Circumcision is now “mutilation”? All these people all these centuries have been “mutilated,” and never knew it? Their wives never knew it, either? Thank you, thank you, Euro-geniuses, for saving us from ourselves and knowing what’s good for us./s
Leave Europe, before they find some other thing to do to you for your own good.
How is it when it’s a male, it’s circumcision, but when it’s a female, it’s called genital mutilation?
After they kill a few people.
Hopefully they out of the US
"We're seeing that the Muslim world is also opposing this legislation. Maybe you can say that the Jews and Muslims are on the same side on this point. We may be collateral damage. We Jews lived in Europe for over a thousand years and no one said a word about bris milah. It is only because of the immigration of millions and millions of people from the Middle East that we have problems today. We are the collateral damage."
Thanks Eleutheria5.
"We're seeing that the Muslim world is also opposing this legislation. Maybe you can say that the Jews and Muslims are on the same side on this point. We may be collateral damage. We Jews lived in Europe for over a thousand years and no one said a word about bris milah. It is only because of the immigration of millions and millions of people from the Middle East that we have problems today. We are the collateral damage."
Thanks Eleutheria5.
Because females who get “circumcised” are incapable of feeling sexual desire or climaxing. A major sexual function is simply gone. Males who are circumcised still have the same sexual urges and abilities as those who are not, but are healthier and I’m told more aesthetically appealing. I’m the wrong person to ask, though. I’ve seen maybe two uncircumcised penises in my life, having grown up in America, and I certainly didn’t stare at them and compare them to my own.
Yag! A whole continent full of ringwraiths and dementors.
“Besides the US, there isn’t any country that by default circumcises new-born boys, not even any Muslim country”
One more reason why America is #1.
How did Tolkien get conflated with Rowling?
The magic fireman sheds his beneficent light upon the world. When he’s smothered in that nasty foreskin, he cannot work his magic;-}
This ban was in Europe. Let them get together and cut to the chase.
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