Intermarriage = Holocaust???

I continue to try communicate with Chabad my frustration regarding their pattern of bias moderation and censorship. As usual, with most of my complaints, I receive no response. These people, typical of most religious Jews, will just ignore people who oppose them.

Here is a copy of an email I sent the moderator of Chabad; I mentioned specific examples of blatant bias.

Nechama Posner,

In the recent past, one or two of my comments which I hoped to have posted on the Chabad website were rejected by the moderator.

I believe one of my "offensive" statements, according to you, was when I referred to the Torah as a "bunch of junk." I ultimately revised it to read that the Torah was "nothing spectacular" and my comment was eventually posted on the site.

During this exchange, I mentioned to you that another commenter called people Nazis if they choose to intermarry. Imagine -- Jews being compared to Nazis! I relayed to you that I didn't think censoring my comment was fair, considering what was previously allowed to pass through the comments section on the Chabad site.

You responded "If you read a comment from someone else that does not seem to meet the 'no-nastiness' rule, feel free to let us know. (I could not find the comment you mentioned. Can you tell me where it is?)"

Well, here it is:

Avi

Avi, with much love for you (for I love ALL Jews with a passion even I don't understand) there is nothing wrong with your girlfriend.

There is a major problem with you marrying her because by doing so you are helping the Third Reich complete its intention of eliminating every Jew on the earth.

Your girlfriend, not being Jewish, cannot bear Jewish children. So if she bore 3 children, those 3 would be lost from Judaism forever as would their generations after them. That is why your family is upset.

Any Jew who marries a non-Jew is killing Judaism as certainly as if he or she were at Auschwitz gassing those whose deaths we recall this week and all year long. ANY Jew who intermarries murders future Jews; it is as simple as that.

Search your heart, are you prepared to halt 4,000 years of your lineage? If she is willing to become a Jew, no problem. Try to explain to her that there is nothing wrong with her religion, but in order to have Jewish children, she has to convert or you can't marry.

Posted By Beverly Kurtin, Hurst, TX

I, (using my previous, unmarried name, Elisha G----) immediately responded to this repugnant comment and my comment was able to pass through the moderation process and posted on your site.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/39606/showfeedback/true/jewish/Why-Do-Jews-Exclude-Other-People.htm

I wrote:

Beverly,

You are a scary person indeed. You say: "Any Jew who marries a non-Jew is killing Judaism as certainly as if he or she were at Auschwitz gassing those. . . "

Certainly those of you who visit this site regularly cannot condone this belief. Sick.

Posted By Elisha in IL

Ms. Posner, as I mentioned in one of my previous communications with you, I do not wish to advocate censorship in any way. I am only pointing this contradiction out to you because I think that your moderation is biased.

This Beverly person has every right to state her racist, repugnant opinion, and I have every right to rebut the ridiculousness of it.

Plus, even if I were so thin-skinned as to be offended by the ignorant words of strangers, how can you possibly equate my insult of an inanimate object, an ancient text like the Torah, to an insult that compares people who intermarry to the Third Reich?

Furthermore, why does Chabad moderate PRIOR to posting? If the comment doesn't meet your arbitrary criteria for publication on your site, you can always, as editors of the site, delete the "offending" material AFTER you read it on the site.

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As of yet, no response from Chabad. It's sad but all to common: people can live with their heads buried in the sand, as if there is no opposition to their silly belief system.