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Your Jan. 13 issue expressed justified indignation at the charedi Israelis who trivialized the Holocaust by comparing themselves to its victims. Yet this very same issue then published a letter that compared Israeli charedim to Iran. While recent charedi behavior has indeed been abominable, they do not throw acid on women’s faces nor do they kill their daughters for allegedly shaming the family, nor do they torture, hang, or shoot homosexuals. Just as the charedim trivialized the Holocaust, the letter-writer trivializes the sufferings of millions of Iranians tortured, murdered, and repressed under that satanic regime, and it unnecessarily exaggerates the already intolerable excesses of the charedim.

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