“600kilobear returns, the Shoa was a gezeira because everybody was going off the derech there. A German victory in WWI would not have averted it — doing teshuva would.”
who in the world are you to make such an accuzation and cheshbon? do you have a direct line to Hashem that HE told you this?
as it so happens, i very much believe in at minimum recognizing the american holidays. (new years and christmas are not american holidays by the way.) my grandfathers were both in the army during world war two- should i just forget that fact? americans liberated many people- should i just forget about that too? as someone else said, george washington was a great friend to the jews….but lets forget about him too. july 4th celebrates the freedom that we have to even have such a conversation…but lets just ignore that too.
i am probably going to be yelled at for saying this, but rabbi forst (if thats who you were talking about) is NOT my rav, so i dont have to hold by what he says. when we went into the city yesterday, we thanked everyone we saw in uniform. why is that a bad thing? where i come from, hakaras hatov is a commendable trait.