Jerusalem – Rabbi Lau Condemns Germany Over Bris Milah Says Since When Do Germans Care About A Jewish Baby’s Cry?

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    Jerusalem – Following the criminal charges filed against Rabbi David Goldberg of Hof, Germany for performing a circumcision in violation of the Cologne ruling that “circumcisions for religious reasons constitute illegal bodily harm,” Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau condemned the German government for their opposition to bris milah.

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    Yediot Ahronot reports that (http://bit.ly/TWZ4Zg) Rabbi Lau said, “It is an amazing thing (to see) German speakers discover they are sensitive to a baby’s cry…I did not experience this in my childhood,” he sarcastically remarked. “The Jewish child’s life was meaningless to the Germans in his time, to be treaded upon by every Gestapo (officer’s) boots and the German people cooperated or watched from the sidelines.”

    In an interview with Kol Chai radio, Rabbi Lau noted, “We do not need a license from them (Germans) to live as Jews. If this is the state of affairs we have no reason to be there (Germany). Perhaps it is all for the best and the Jews who are there will understand that they don’t belong there.”
    Rabbi Lau also criticized the plan to have German doctors train mohels in the performance of a circumcision saying, “This is anti-Semitism. Our mohels have vast experience. Rabbi Goldberg circumcised over 3,000 children, he says without fault.”


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    11 years ago

    Not very tactfully said, no matter how much truth there is in it.

    How many babies die in car accidents? I am sure they would have preferred to stay safely at home. Perhaps it should be illegal to drive babies in cars.

    11 years ago

    Very well said, the Germans butchered Jewish infants with less feeling than they butchered their pigs.

    rebeli
    rebeli
    11 years ago

    Since When Do Germans Care About A Jewish Baby’s Cry? That says it all !!!!!!!

    mendoza
    mendoza
    11 years ago

    wow !!!!! the most powerfull voice of the shoa ……may he live a long and healty life…..ad mayoa veh`esriem shonah

    11 years ago

    This quote was succint and to the point. And it is irrefutable. What do they care about a jewish baby anyhow? Germany can go to the pit.

    shredready
    shredready
    11 years ago

    sadly the neo nazis are gaining in Germany with many protests lately

    enlightened-yid
    enlightened-yid
    11 years ago

    Someone needs to tell these rabbis and Jewish politicians that you can’t use Holocaust guilt forever as a tactic against German politics. Younger German generations do not feel responsible for the actions of past generations but Israeli figures continue to alienate German relations with their petty Holocaust guilt tactics.
    Not all Germany wants to ban bris mila. Not all German politicians support it. There is an intelligent approach for Jewish leaders to protest this ban and work with German leaders for a swift resolution, but using cheap Holocaust guilt tactics will only alienate the Germans that are on your side of this debate.

    getitright
    getitright
    11 years ago

    say it as it is- to all the apologist jews and closet jews- stop hiding the germans will discover you.

    be proud say it as it is – do not be afraid to speak Truth- as it is

    Thank you Rabbi Lau- and by the way to answer your question, They do not care about the cry of the baby jew- they actually want to see you go- to the chambers or at least out of the country- Judenrein

    Frankly nothing has changed- that is the reality.

    dont believe me ask them – they arent afraid to speak the truth- they will tell you- where they want you.

    BHBSD
    BHBSD
    11 years ago

    A relative of mine was traveling on a train in Germany after the War. As he was quietly eating his lunch in the far end of a dining car, a Conductor approached him asking him to remove his cap as it is not polite to eat with a cap. He answered as a religious Jew he needs to cover his head. The conductor came back a few minutes later saying the passengers will not stand for that behavior in a dining car. He told the conductor they were able to tolerate while 6 million Jews were being killed but him wearing a cap during a meal they cannot! Needless to say the Conductor did not return.

    SandraM
    SandraM
    11 years ago

    kol hakavod, Rabbi Lau!

    ysgib
    ysgib
    11 years ago

    I don’t think anyone has a right to criticize Rav Lau’s approach. He was only a small child in Poland when he was torn away from his parents and taken to a concentration camp. He never saw his parents or most of his family again, and consequently became an orphan. B’chasdei H’, he was the youngest survivor of Buchenwald. I don’t think any of us who did not live through the Holocaust can understand what he went through.

    11 years ago

    #7 Quote
    can’t use Holocaust guilt “forever”
    Maybe not forever but perhaps at least as long as there are people living that have lived through this holocaust then they can say how they feel. BTW his book is excellent and you may feel differently once you have read it.

    Bluebekitche
    Bluebekitche
    11 years ago

    For all of you that are not aware, Rabbi Lau was in a pile of death kids when a man passed by & saw his foot moving he removed him & was revived after medical attention was given to him. So now you intelegiant people can give him the rights what he can or can’t say about the Germans.

    shredready
    shredready
    11 years ago

    it couldbe this is more a reaction to Muslim immigration than a Jewish issue nevertheless they are wrong the Germans

    11 years ago

    KOl hakavod Well said!

    MarkTwain2
    MarkTwain2
    11 years ago

    When Israel bombs Iran they should make a fly-by over Germany and unload a package or two.

    Go4it
    Go4it
    11 years ago

    even though im a anti-zionist i think r lau said the most powerfull words about the germans. its straight to the point

    11 years ago

    The Germans butchered one and a half million Jewish children, and now they worry about Jewish children being hurt by bris milah? And to those who think that we can’t use Holocaust guilt forever I say you are wrong. We can speak and cry about these crimes yes, FOREVER, because such crimes can never be forgotten or forgiven, to the end of time.

    HaNavon
    HaNavon
    11 years ago

    When they came for our bodies we did nothing.
    Now they come for our souls!

    The Chafetz Chaim and many others held that we should wage war against the communists because of things like this.

    Normally speaking, I’m not a fan or a proponent of terrorism, but sometimes it’s in order!

    11 years ago

    Morai verabossai,

    Can we all step back for a moment, take a deep breath and take stock, please?

    A single German judge in a lower-degree court in a single province of Germany (North Rhine Westphalia) handed down a single verdict on the circumcision of a single 13-year old ***MUSLIM*** youth.

    His verdict will be overturned.

    The government of Germany is totally embarrassed by this matter, and is doing all it possibly can to revoke the judge’s decision. As all of us know, that country’s recent history on religious observance is most definitely NOT in its favor, so all us may be assured that a complete and total ban on ‘milah’ is extremely unlikely.

    That said, Rabbi Lau shlita is absolutely right to ram – and to continue to ram – this crucially important matter down the collective German throat.

    11 years ago

    I agree with #25 . Once, I traveled to Frankfurt, West Germany on the way to and from EY. I had to stay overnight, near the airport. From my limited contact with some Germans, I found that some of them are still farbisen. I couldn’t wait until our flight left. I was amazed at all of the new modern buildings in Frankfurt, until I realized that the city had been rebuilt with the aid of the Marshall Plan. Unfortunately, a leopard does not change its spots. The surviving civilian passengers of the Entebbe hijacking in 1976 all stated that the German female terrorist was the most brutal of all of the terrorists, even more so than the Arabs with her.