
An article entitled “American Jews Must Stop Obsessing Over the Holocaust” appeared in the Jewish publication — Tablet Magazine — which raised red flags for a rabbi because it revealed that 73% of Jews in America based their entire Jewish identity on their belief in the “Holocaust”.
We have edited the original essay here for brevity — as it is very repetitious — but the thesis is simple — that assimilated Jews in America rely too heavily on the “Holocaust” as the basis of their Jewish Identity — and that they need something more substantial to maintain a legitimate identity, which ideally would be a return to the “covenantal” relationship with their “god”.
The article begins….
“One of the more striking, and to my mind surprising, results of the recent 2013 Pew Research Poll “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” is that in response to the question “What’s Essential to Being Jewish?” the No. 1 “essential” was “remembering the Holocaust.”
Seventy-three percent of respondents listed the Holocaust as the primary essential of Jewish identity as opposed to, for example, “Leading an Ethical and Moral Life” (69 percent), “Caring about Israel” (43 percent) and “Observing Jewish law” (19 percent)…
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (christiansfortruth.com)
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