There is a Holocaust taking place today in the Jewish world. A spiritual Holocaust that sees Jewish youth destroyed and cut away from its people as surely as if they had been eliminated in the gases of Auschwitz. Assimilation and intermarriage and sheer alienation and disinterest in being Jewish and vicious attacks on Israel and Zionism by Jews - these make up the cancer that is raging within the Jewish body politic. And, again, it is the Jewish leadership that has been the culprit, that is the culprit - the criminal, the spiritual murderer, the destroyer of the young Jew. It is a Jewish leadership that long ago, cut its ties with authentic Judaism, with exclusive Judaism, with the Judaism of difference and separation, that yearned to mingle and mix and integrate with the gentiles and that plotted to make the Jewish community as un-Jewish and as similar to gentiles as possible. It is a Jewish leadership whose wealth and position made it strive and dream of prancing on the national or even international one. All this for the shepherds meant making assimilation and integration and the lessening of the Jewish profile, a fundamental part of their plan for the sheep. And so they became the most fanatical bearers of the banner of the Melting Pot. For the Hellenized Jewish Establishment, the Melting Pot became their Holy Grail.

It was the Eleventh Commandment - "Thou shalt Melt!" It was imperative that Jews and all people mixed and melted in order that there would be as little difference as possible, and hopefully, none that mattered. That was the surest guarantee of the end of Jew-hatred, and the end of Jew-hatred was the vision and passion of the wealthy, powerful Jew who could then enjoy life without fear or trepidation of the gentile. Of course, the logical conclusion of the imperative of Melt is Dissolve. And certainly the surest way to end hatred of Jews is to end Jews. The Melting Pot went a long way towards that. Part of the process of melting was the unilateral Jewish shattering of the barriers between Jew and Gentile that had been the only things that preserved Jews throughout the centuries of Exile.

Now, anything that kept Jews separate, that made them different, became the target of the Establishment's crusade. Not only were synagogues turned into "temples" and "centers" with the accompanying change in service that made them into the kind of house of worship in which any Christian could feel at home, but the yeshiva, the religious school, which was the heart of the Jewish people, became anathema. The Federations and Welfare Funds, the communal treasure houses that were run by the feudal barons, set down as policy to give nothing, or as close to that as possible, to the despised yeshiva. The very concept of the yeshiva, the parochial school, was dangerous to the assimilated ignoramuses of the Jewish Establishment. For what would the sight of a child in a yamulka do to a gentile in a wealthy, exclusive neighborhood into which the Established Jew had finally managed to arrive? Parochialism, separatism, exclusiveness, were concepts that were ruthlessly fought and rooted out, and the yeshivas were deliberately starved in an effort to have them close down. On the other hand, there was the public school. That became the apple of the Jewish Establishment's eye. Jewish parents were told, urged, pushed, implored: Send your child to public school so that he/she can meet all kinds. The sheepish Jew listened to the shepherds. He sent his child to meet all kinds and when he, the child, brought them home, the parents shrieked: "Where did you meet him/her?" Whom did the Jewish parents think their child would meet in public school? A rabbinical scholar? A Hassid? The same occurred with the Jewish Community Centers. Centers, they surely became. Centers for assimilation and interdating and intermarriage. A convenient place to meet the gentile at a dance or basketball game or for swimming.

More than half of the local federation budgets invariably went to the Jewish Community Center, and in true democratic, liberal tradition, it was open to gentiles, too. And the gentiles flocked there since the best things in the community were to be found there. Many Jewish Centers thus have more than half of their members, gentiles, while almost all have between 35-40% non-Jewish. The Jewish child was sent to the Saturday night dance, and assimilation and intermarriage were made easy as, right in the Jewish Center, the shidduch between Bernie and Bridget was consummated.

And the temples, of course. The temples from which Jewish content was emptied, to be followed by G-d. The temples that were created by Jews suddenly grown comfortable, whose money enabled them to flee the urban Jewish neighborhoods and preen themselves in the suburban regions of America. There they suddenly found themselves among Protestants and Catholics - a real minority seeking to be accepted. And so the temples were created - Reform, Conservative - not as spiritual houses of worship, Heaven forbid, but as counters to churches, in the way that the minor Chanukah holiday suddenly achieved an inflated importance only because it had to match Christmas, lest the Jewish child feel deprived and declasse'. The temples and centers, empty of anything spiritual, could not hope to give the Jewish child anything meaningful since children are brilliantly perceptive about fraud - parental and temple, both. The temple rabbi, an ignoramus whose only saving grace was that the congregation knew even less about Judaism than he, believed neither in Torah from Sinai nor in the G-d who did not give it to the Jewish People who were never there. His mission was to give interesting sermons, keep the Sisterhood happy, handle relations with the gentiles (who were, despite all Jewish protestations, people to be wary of), and, of course, give the children a reason to be Jewish and not marry the Gentile-next-door.

Invariably, this Jewish "education" was represented as "ethics" and "universal values." As if one had to be Jewish to have ethics and universal values! And so, when the young Jewish man/woman came home from school (Berkeley? Emory? American U? Boston U? Wisconsin?) with the young non-Jewish woman/man and announced that they were in love, hysterical Jewish parents whose practice of Judaism was a non-existent thing, now went into paroxysms over the thought of a non-Jewish son/daughter-in-law who observed the Sabbath as little as they and who enjoyed the same kind of lobsters and Chinese food as the Jewish parents from suburbia. Bernie comes home to Great Neck or Greater Neck or Greatest Neck (or whatever way the Jew conjugates his suburb, for after all Great Neck is not a place - it is more a concept. It is to be found on the outskirts of every city, the wealthy, status-minded "Jewish suburb"). Bernie comes home to Long Island , known to the Jews of affluence as The Island (Jews tend to live in places that begin with a definite article. On the West Coast, they live in The Valley. In Atlanta and Cleveland, and undoubtedly other places, they really do pray at The temple overseen by The rabbi). In any event Bernie comes home with his girlfriend to announce their intention to get married and the call of the wild Jewish parent, whose last brush with kosher food was a sometime Sunday bagel, is: "But Bernie, she isn't Jewish!" Of course Bernie knows this and who cares? Look at her! "But Bernie, you're a Jew!" And Bernie looks at the father and lashes out with all the alienation that he has held within himself for lo these many years:

"Why should I be Jewish? I want to be a human being!"

The parents. The poor, fraudulent Jewish parents. The Jewish parents who played a game with their child for years thinking that they could create Judaism in their own image, that Judaism was some kind of faucet they could turn off and on at will - modulating it to the temperature they wished. They told him when he came home from religious school as a child and babbling something about kosher food: "Now Bernie, you know you don't have to do everything they teach you there..." And they walked away comfortable in the thought that that was that. It was. Bernie, the child, as all children, was infallible, brilliant in his perception. He saw and understood immediately that his parents were frauds. That Judaism (or better, that which he thought was Judaism) was a fraud. he learned that and kept it hidden in his navel, until the moment of truth. And now his parents stand, shattered. "Why be Jewish?" he asked them. And they, in an infinity of years, could not answer that question. For like millions of others, they are Jewish only through emotion. They were born Jewish, are one or two steps away from an Orthodox home. They remember zeyde and bubby, they remember kiddush; they remember chulent. Bernie would not know cholent from China or kiddush from Kierkegaard. His parents have not the courage to break with Judaism. Bernie could not care less. Jewish parent who had been partners in the destruction of their children's Jewish soul and who could not, in an infinity, explain why anyone should choose to be Jewish rather than a human being, become emotional over their child's honest indifference to anything Jewish. The Almighty repays measure for measure and the punishment fits the crime and the fraudulent "Judaism" that the parents had attempted to hand down to their child was thrown back in their faces. What can they do? Why, send the child to the temple rabbi. The temple rabbi. If only the Jew could understand how little about Judaism that creature knows, the temple rabbi, the ignoramus who secretly agonizes over his lack of belief in a Judaism to which he has to pay lip service each Sabbath lest he lose his $100,000 plus salary (not counting weddings, unveilings, Bar Mitzvas, et al, and all in cash). The temple rabbi, whose sermons are increasingly brilliant, brilliant in such "Jewishness" as when he proved conclusively that the Bible is a product of myths from Sumer and Babylon. The "rabbi". Whose sermons increasingly move from book reviews to attacks on racism and Bosnia, et al, now has to persuade the Jewish youngster that he/she should not marry the good-looking, intelligent, decent gentile, just because of a difference in faith. Ah, racism, racism, thy name is perfidy.

The temple rabbi, whose interfaith services fairly shout forth the concept that there is no essential difference between Jews and non-Jews, now has to persuade the Jew that there is.

Difference?

What difference? The rabbi, not believing that G-d gave the Jews the Torah at Sinai, can babble all he wishes to concerning "ethics," but the young Jew - infinitely more honest than he, will not buy the counterfeit currency. At best he/she agrees to ask the gentile partner to "convert", a bad joke that goes against all of the Jewish laws but is meant to placate the Jewish in-laws. "Conversion." The worst ethnic joke of our times. A farce that became insistent as the children of the Temple Board Chairman and President, the national head of the American Jewish Congress and the multiplying numbers of Jewish leaders, all fell in love with gentiles. And so, they "converted." Genuine gentiles became fraudulent Jews through a "conversion" process that went against everything that was authentic, honest Judaism. But what did that matter, since the temple and Center in almost everything they did went against real Judaism? What did it matter when the temple and center were not created for real Judaism? And so more and more young Jews do not bother to go through the farce of "conversion," and assimilation and intermarriage decimate the Jewish communities of the western world. And shall we mention Jewish abortions - so supported by the liberal temples and rabbis? An the refusal of Jewish couples to have children? Or more than one? And the Jewish propensity for sympathy for all the tragedies in the world, such as seeing the dangers of overpopulation in Pakistan and Jewish couples ethically deciding not to have babies... They destroyed our children - as Jews. They gave them emptiness and dross and shallowness and told them it was "Judaism". No matter the children fled in disinterest and, if sensitive and perceptive, in disgust and contempt. Indeed, G-d was seen fleeing from the fraudulent "Judaism" that the unholy Trinity, the Jewish Establishment, the temple rabbis and the parents had created. The young Jew turned his back and his mind in this grotesque caricature of real Judaism. He gave it the back of his hand and went off to find other things to fill his spirit and mind. The Jewish Establishment leaders drove him/her away. They are the ones who are responsible for the children of the Children of Israel rejecting their fathers of old and their Father in Heaven. The empty, ignorant, fat and wealthy Hellenists who control the Jewish communities lied to them, the temple rabbis, defrauded them and, in the end, they all lost them. The young Jew turns to drugs and to Zen and to Trotsky. The young Jew fights for everyone's human rights including those of the "Palestinians" but not for his own Jewish people. The young Jew is so disturbed that he worships the Korean Moon and then turns to the ultimate madness: Praying to a Jesus in whose name his Jewish grandfather was massacred. The young Jew turns to everything and to nothing. And, indeed, the largest of all the Jewish youth groups is not Jews for Arafat or Jews for Jesus or Jews for Trotsky, but Jews for Nothing. The lost Jewish youngster. Destroyed by his own. The western Jewish communities are disaster areas, deserts, wastelands barren of anything meaningfully Jewish. They are the ultimate products of the shepherds, the fat and wealthy shepherds of the Jewish Establishment, who, in the words of the Prophet: "We unto the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with wool; ye kill them that are fed, but ye feed not the flock." (Ezekiel 34) The shepherds of the Jewish Communities. The un-elected shepherds. The feudal barons who control the money and the power and no one elected them. They sit at the public Jewish trough, these autocrats of Hellenism, and throw Jewish money at nonsense (at best) and at projects that are non-Jewish and anti-Jewish. Jewish public funds go for Arabs of Israel who are the bitter enemies of the Jewish state and people. Is this what a Jew wishes his money to go to? Indeed federation funds go to groups such as the American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith, groups that often take stands that are disastrous for Jews. Why must Jews support them? They are private groups that should raise their own money. Jewish Federation funds go for all manner of un-Jewish and anti-Jewish causes, not the least of which is the Jewish Community Center mentioned above, that should never be supported until it becomes a truly Jewish center, belonging to Jews and open to Jewish members only, in order to put an end to the assimilation and interdating that it spawns. The wealthy, arrogant Jewish establishment. The powerful men who run the Jewish community and the little, pipe-smoking functionaries - executive directors, et al - who eagerly do their bidding for salaries that are outrageously high, and from the Jewish charity chest.