Say What Now?
By Apparently I’m a kidnapper:
The Prime Minister’s Office and the Jewish Agency unveiled an aggressive advertisement campaign for the Masa project which is designed to strengthen Jewish identity among youths in the Diaspora and their bonds to Israel.
One video clip likens Jews who marry outside of the religion to missing persons, with fake notices and pictures which drive home the point.
As part of the campaign, similar “missing person” notices will be plastered on walls around the country.
That’s just… fabulous. The stupidity boggles the mind almost as much as the mendacity; how can it be good for the Israeli state to insist that Jews who marry outside the faith are lost? How many American Jews are really going to decide to marry within the faith because of this campaign, as compared to the number who are going to be pissed off by the exclusion and the implicit revocation of agency?
…see also Dana.