Network marketed trips from Israel for tourists to have sex with minors who were forced into prostitution; 6 Israelis held, arrest warrants issued for other suspects and note–doubtless there will be a tidal wave of disgust and condemnation for this criminal and godless behavior, but–as has been the case now for the last 6,000 years–within the context of this disgust and condemnation there will be the almost-complete absence of any rational connection between this behavior and the deeply-held religious strains contained within Judaism that produced it.

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