experiences of the victims. Friedman subsequently issued an apology for the offensive remarks. On victims of the holocaust According to the Australian Jewish News, Friedman, in a speech in the 1980s, framed the holocaust as part of a divine plan. Friedman reportedly stated “Who in fact died and who remained alive had nothing to do with the Nazis,” and “not a single Jewish child died because of the Nazis … they died in their relationship with God.” According to the paper, Friedman's statements were not well received by local holocaust survivors. Published works Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? Reclaiming Modesty, Intimacy and Sexuality The Relief and Rescue Workers Guide to Judaism - a Rescue Workers Handbook The Joy of Intimacy: A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality & Marriage See also Simon Jacobson Tzvi Freeman References External links A collection of articles and audio classes by Rabbi Manis Friedman Ongoing series of lectures in video and audio form Official YouTube Channel 1946 births Living people 21st-century American rabbis Jewish biblical scholars American Hasidic rabbis American people of Czech-Jewish descent Chabad-Lubavitch (Hasidic dynasty) Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States 20th-century Jewish biblical scholars 21st-century Jewish biblical scholars Hasidic writers