Rabbi Lau to 'Post': European Jewry has no future
Mati Wagner, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 5, 2004
Returning from an intensive two-month trip throughout Europe, Rabbi Israel Meir
Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel and a Holocaust survivor, declared Sunday
that European Jewry has no future.
"In the past months I've traveled to Austria, Britain, Switzerland, Belgium and
the Netherlands, and I'm telling you there is no future for European Jewry,"
said Lau in a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post.
"I see the end of the exile for European Jewry."
Lau said he received the impression from the European Jewish families he had
met that they live in fear.
"I've met parents who tell me that when they send their children to Bnei Akiva
(a religious-Zionist youth movement) for evening activities they are in
constant fear that something terrible will happen, G-d forbid, until they
return.
"Once Jews had no choice but to live with anti-Semitism. Now they do."
Lau said that outward signs of anti-Semitism are not a new phenomenon and since
the resurgence of Palestinian violence four years ago there has been a sharp
rise.
But the anti-Semitic violence has spread to include the burning of synagogues,
the desecration of graves, attacks against Jewish schools, and anti-Semitic
propaganda spread via the Internet and on university campuses.
"Israel has to prepare itself for European aliya by investing in housing, a
chain of ulpans (Hebrew classes) and job training for those who need it.
Everything should be done to encourage European Jews to make aliya."
He ruled out the possibility that a solution for coexistence between Jews in
Europe and the communities amongst which they live in could be found.
"Here in Israel a Jew can proudly speak the Holy tongue in public places
without being embarrassed. Why bother looking for a solution in Europe?"
Lau called on the government and the Jewish Agency to put more emphasis on
encouraging aliya from Europe and less on the Former Soviet Union. He
recommended concentrating activities in a special aliya taskforce that would
find ways to attract European Jews to come to Israel.
"A large portion of those who arrive here from the FSU are not Jews, while
there is a huge Jewish population in Europe suffering from anti-Semitism.
"The emigration from the FSU to Germany is entirely Jewish because the special
aid packages provided by the German government are only available to those who
can prove they are Jews according to halacha (Jewish law)," said Lau.
"What we need to do is attract those same Jews to Israel."
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06 Dec 2004 09:05:09 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041206095723.23235.00001711@mb-m03.aol.com...
Rabbi Lau to 'Post': European Jewry has no future
Mati Wagner, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 5, 2004
Returning from an intensive two-month trip throughout Europe, Rabbi Israel
Meir
Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel and a Holocaust survivor, declared
Sunday
that European Jewry has no future.
What a fucking idiotic, devisive, *****-stirring arsehole this rabbi is then.
I hope Rabbis in London, Amsterdam and all over Europe set the *****
straight.
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06 Dec 2004 09:39:19 AM |
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(TonyZ2001) wrote:
Rabbi Lau to 'Post': European Jewry has no future
Mati Wagner, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 5, 2004
Returning from an intensive two-month trip throughout Europe, Rabbi Israel Meir
Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel and a Holocaust survivor, declared Sunday
that European Jewry has no future.
They're planning to nuke your precious white race, tol. And the stink
of your insane treason will befoul millenia.
Grantland
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