[Red Badger]

Imported Rabbis? Are they better than the domestic variety?........

[waimea.man]

When I first read the headline, I thought it said "Germany ordains first rabbits." And then I thought, "yea, they would do that."

[darkangel82]

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[Alouette]

He said he hoped the ordinations would help reintroduce Judaism to Europe and revive Jewish life.

Jews have been doing that in Europe since, like, 1945, and in the former Soviet Union since 1990.

Where's this guy been hiding and what's he been doing?

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[justiceseeker93]

The revival of the Jewish community in Germany is a triumph of good over unthinkable evil, though it is not without mixed vibes.

The presense of a fair number of Jews there demonstrates that Hitler's "Final Solution" was a failure, that the current German government and prime minister have been moving away from the heinous policies of the past, and that fears about a return of a reunified Germany to its antisemitic roots (prevalent especially in Jewish circles c. 1990) have been disspelled.

On the other hand, one would have to think that Jews living in Germany today must find it awkward and eery to know that they are daily among perpetrators of the Holocaust and their linear descendants.

[Androcles]

It's a shame it took sixty years...