Reply To: Chazzanim prevented from reciting ‘E-l Male Rachamin’ on Holocaust Day

Ipcha mistavra. If you would not be so into recreating the shtetl, you would know the history. The shtetl stirred up a lot of agnostic attitudes toward the Torah. Which is why irreligious sefardim (In the mid-east) did not have such attitudes until they met their western counterparts.