April 28, 1992
The
Holocaust is Killing America's
Jews Rabbi Ephraim
Buchwald, observes
(extracts): "THERE is almost nothing more sacred or
more sensitive for Jews living in the
generation after the Holocaust than the
memory of the six million martyrs of the
Nazi genocide... Now that 'revisionists,'
who seek to deny the Holocaust, have
become even more brazen, sensitive Jews
are reacting with even great passion. "But obsession with the Holocaust is
exacting a great price. It is killing
America's Jews...Jews as a group are
drifting away from their religion...Unless
there will be, within the very near
future, a dramatic turnaround in the
patterns of Jewish assimilation and
intermarriage, we are probably witnessing
the last generation of Jewish life in
America as we know it... "Right now the priority seems to be
building Holocaust memorials. More than
$500 million has already been pledged or
spent to build 19 Holocaust memorials and
36 research centers or libraries in
America. Some cities, like Los Angeles,
have two or three competing Holocaust
memorials... "There is a Holocaust taking place in
America right now. We can't hear it,
because there are no barking dogs...We
can't smell it because there are no gas
chambers. But the net result is exactly
the same."
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