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Tag : diaspora
July 22, 2019 by admin
An Israeli Official Called My Family a “Second Holocaust” — and I Felt Relieved
In a recent meeting, the Israeli Minister of Education, Rafi Peretz, called my family part of “a second Holocaust.” According to three sources present, the new Netanyahu appointee told the Cabinet, in response to a presentation on demographic trends among American Jews, that the rate of intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews in the United States was the moral equivalent of our people’s greatest trauma in recent memory.
When I read his comment, I braced myself for a wave of indignation. Instead, I felt relief.
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