The AJN has learnt that Rabbi Manis Friedman incurred the wrath of Shoah survivors during a trip to Melbourne in the 1980s, after implying the Holocaust was part of a Divine plan.
Source/Credit: The Australian Jewish News
By Timna Jacks | February 11, 2013
THE American rabbi, currently at the centre of a media storm, for stating that sexual abuse, like diarrhoea, is an embarrassment that sufferers should keep private, and that victims of abuse are “not that damaged”, is no stranger to controversy.
The AJN has learnt that Rabbi Manis Friedman incurred the wrath of Shoah survivors during a trip to Melbourne in the 1980s, after implying the Holocaust was part of a Divine plan.
According to two prominent local rabbis, Rabbi Friedman made the comments during a talk he gave at a private home during a Chabad-sponsored speaking tour, and has not returned to Melbourne since.
Last Friday, he was forced to apologise for the content of a clip on YouTube in which he said, “There is hardly a student who comes to a yeshivah … that hasn’t been molested.”
In the clip, which has now been removed, he also said a perpetrator could be absolved of their sins by performing mitzvot, and that the onus is on the victim to get over their abuse. “You’ve learnt that not every uncle is your best friend, you’ve learnt an important lesson.”
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