An Israeli Cabinet minister caused a furor when he said assimilation was worse than the Holocaust. In remarks before world Orthodox leaders, Shas Party minister Nissim Dahan said assimilation, and not the Holocaust, was the worst catastrophe to beset the Jews.
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