ALTERNET – Woman Who Would Say that Air Force Chief of Staff is Part of a New Jewish Holocaust to Speak at Air Force Base

Published On: January 26, 2012|Categories: News|2 Comments on ALTERNET – Woman Who Would Say that Air Force Chief of Staff is Part of a New Jewish Holocaust to Speak at Air Force Base|

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by Chris Rodda, MRFF Senior Research Director

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  • On February 14, Scott Air Force Base in Illinois will be holding its annual National Prayer Breakfast. The guest speaker this year will be Esther Jungreis, a Holocaust survivor who founded the international Hineni movement in 1973 to discourage intermarriage and Jewish participation in cults, according to the Jewish Women’s Archive.
  • In her speeches and writings, Jungreis throws around the name Hitler and the word Holocaust more than Glenn Beck — not in the expected context of her being a Holocaust survivor talking about the actual Hitler and actual Holocaust, but to make comparisons to things that are not the actual Hitler or the actual Holocaust. One of the most controversial examples of this is her equating interracial marriage between Jews and non-Jews to the Holocaust, with statements like this:
    “It’s a question of understanding that Hitler’s aim was to annihilate our people, and intermarriage is also a form of annihilation, which is sometimes even more deadly than the Holocaust.”
  • Jungreis is a very prolific speaker, appearing in venues ranging from Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum in 1973 to the Republican National Convention in 2004. She also speaks regularly at military bases, which, on February 14, will include Scott Air Force Base.
  • In addition to hosting such a controversial speaker for this Prayer Breakfast, the commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing, Col. Michael Hornitschek, has blatantly ignored the September 2011 Memorandum on Maintaining Government Neutrality Regarding Religion from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, which said that all invitations for religious events must come from the Chaplain Corps and not the command structure.
  • The invitation the Scott Air Force Base Prayer Breakfast begins:
    The Commander, 375th Air Mobility Wing
    cordially invites you to attend the
    National Prayer Breakfast
    featuring guest speaker
    Mrs. Esther Jungreis
  • Now, we here at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) have received many complaints that Gen. Schwartz’s memorandum is being ignored, and that nothing is being done to enforce it. But maybe this particular violation at Scott Air Force Base will get the general’s attention. Why? Well, not just because Col. Hornitschek is disregarding his religious neutrality edict, but because rumor has it that Gen. Schwartz, a Jew, married a non-Jew, which would make he himself part of Esther Jungreis’s so-called Holocaust!

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  1. Avraham February 2, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    In point of fact, the selection of Rebbetzin Jungreis was in consultation with, and at the behest of the Scott Chapel. Protocol and chain of command issues require that the formal invitation be extended through the Wing, as the National Prayer Breakfast is a Wing event, not unlike the National Prayer Breakfast that the President attended and spoke at today. Rebbetzin Jungreis will be speaking on a generic theme, “Spiritual Resiliency Amidst Life’s Turmoil.” She will allude to her own earl childhood experiences as a Holocaust victim, and share her insights as to how one can derive spiritual strength from life’s ordeals. She will not be discussing the issue of intermarriage, nor is she in the habit of excoriating her hosts or military leadership. She will be speaking in non-faith specific lexicon in effort to reach a multi-cultural and religiously pluralistic military audience. Attendance is purely voluntary.

  2. Terri February 3, 2012 at 10:14 am

    so someone who promotes that getting married to someone outside your ethnicity is a threat to tht thnicity / culture, that just smacks of the deep south ideology of racism.

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