Berlin – Despite a Cologne district court ruling which declared that the practice of circumcision in Germany is illegal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to re-assure German Jews that they will still be allowed to continue performing circumcisions.
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Haaretz writes (http://bit.ly/QG6tYy) that Merkel’s aide, Dr. Rudolf Teuwsen, head of the Liaison with Churches and Religious Communities Unit at the Chancellor’s office, has sent a letter to Menachem Margolin, Director of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, saying that the “German government sees a special obligation to nurture the Jewish culture and religion.”
He added, “The German chancellor is grateful for the fact that the Jews have once again found a homeland in Germany. Thus, the German government sees a special importance in this issue, and is working intensely to reach a proper and swift solution to the issue of religiously-motivated circumcisions.” Dr. Teuwsen also noted that, “religious freedom is an essential component of our democratic society and there mustn’t be a doubt regarding this issue.”
She is a good woman.
Germany can never repay the debts of the Shoah. Just the fact that the descendants of the Nazis YMS are even thinking of banning milah is enough for me to stop buying anything made in Nazistan. I never bought any major items made there, but now I have stopped buying even so much as a tube of hand cream made there or made by German companies abroad as well. (Nivea in particular should be avoided as Beiersdorf is a stolen Jewish firm – so is AEG.)
I hope she does the same for the Euro economies!!!!
AEG[Allgemeine Eliktrizitaetsgesellschat] in 1933 contributed a large amount of money to Hitler