Defining Judaism By The Nazis (gender-segregation)

I have heard of defining Judaism by the Holocaust in the past. I remember it as having been in the sense of "He was Jewish enough for the Nazis to kill.." to determine jewishness. An editorial in the Yated Neeman took the idea to a new low.

P Hovav writes a letter, as if to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, regarding the concern over the removal of women from the public sphere. She makes a number of points, most of which I will not address. Hovav's final point is the shocker.

Hovav says the Nazis proved how basic the gender-separation is. She says it is so basic that the Nazis herded men into mens chambers and women into womens chambers without even discussing it. Men and women were kept in separate barracks, without even thinking about it.

That is how basic the concept of gender-segregation is, at least to P Hovav and the Yated Neeman. Even the Nazis considered it a basic concept.

I would suggest that if one looked at the Nazis, in their own lives, their was no gender-segregation. You would not see gender-segregation at Nazi rallies. You did not see it in the public transportation of Germany. Women sang in public in Germany. The fact that they treated the Jews like this, applying gender-segregation while mass-murdering us, should perhaps actually be seen as another form of dehumanization. I would say it proves exactly the opposite of the point that P Hovav was trying to prove.

That, however, was not the main point I wanted to make. What I really want to say is that if we are going to learn from the Nazis what is appropriate behavior and conduct, we might come to the conclusion that it is a basic, a given, that all Jews must be killed. They also did that without the blink of an eye. Why only learn one thing from the Nazis, and not from everything they did?

I find it deplorable that P Hovav and the Yated Neeman would lower themselves to learn from the Nazis and the Holocaust how basic gender-segregation is. Perhaps it is indicative of how weak their actual arguments are.

And the truth of the matter is, I am disgusted that they had the chutzpah and insensitivity to print such a thought. Even to come up with such a thought is shocking, and then to print it??!! I am disgusted that I have to write about something like this.