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The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned the use by some Haredi protesters in Jerusalem, of the infamous Jude yellow Star of David - which the Nazis forced the doomed Jews of occupied Europe to wear under penalty of death during the Holocaust, calling it “a desecration of the memory of the 6 million Jewish martyrs of the Shoah and brings shame on the very community that this protest was supposed to defend.”
“We call upon all leaders of the Torah communities to denounce these acts as a chillul hashem, a desecration of G-d's name. The Torah values so many victims of the Shoah who lived and died for the State of Israel, which is home to the largest number of Holocaust survivors in the world,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, SWC Dean and Founder and Associate Dean.
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JTA NEWS ALERT
January 1, 2012
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli leaders criticized a haredi Orthodox demonstration in which protesters wore yellow stars, young children were displayed wearing striped prison garb and one child held up his hands in an imitation of a famous image from the Warsaw Ghetto. READ MORE
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