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luting and diminishing the
Holocaust. Perhaps they do it
unwittingly, or is it just an at-
titude of callousness?
A rabbi conducting funeral
services for Leon Klinghoffer,
the victim of a horrible murder
on the cruise ship Achille Lauro,
refers to the case as a "holocaust
of one." The media broadcasts
tbis reference to millions of vie-
viers. To the learned rabbi, it
was just an embarrassment. But
it is a distortion, nevertheless.
Victims of the Holocaust had no
funerals and no graves, and no
rabbis to deliver eulogies.
We have no choice but to ig-
nore, with disgust, frequent re-
ferences in the media to the
"Lebanon holocaust" or-, most
recently, to the "Maltese
holocaust," the bungled attempt
to rescue the hostages on the
Egyptair plane in Malta. How-
ever, one cannot possibly ignore
the impropriety of invoking the
Holocaust in a fundraising cam-
paign for the Young Israel
Campus Outreach Program.
"Today, once again, we Jews
are faced with the threat of an-
nihilation;-", writes Dr. Harold
M. Jacobs, president of Young
Israel, in a national campaign
letter. "What we are witnessing
today is nothing' less than a
Second Holocaust. It comes from

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assimilation. The disappearance
of Jews into the secular society,
where they are lost to us
forever."
The use of the Holocaust as a
metaphor for assimilation is un-
forgivable. There is not even a
remote equivalent to my
mother's and my little sister's
agonizing death in the Au-
schwitz gas chamber.
While reading Dr. Jacobs'
plans for waging "the battle for
Jewish survival" one wonders
what the leaders of Young Israel
had done for Jewish survival in
the "First" Holocaust? Had they
launched an "Emergency Rescue
Campaign" like the one in 1985?
And how is Dr. Jacobs going
to stop the "Second Holocaust?"
Simple — by asking for dona-
tions ranging from $36 (Campus
Supporter) to $1,800 '(Campus
Fellow). Madison Avenue at
work.
' I am reminded of my experi-
ence in the period immediately
following our liberation from the
camps. Rabbis of all sorts from
America descended on us in the
Displaced Persons camps in
Germany. Most of them did not
address the pressing needs of
the emotionally scarred sur-
vivors — they offered us prayer
books and sermons on God's
strange ways. Many young

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