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Category Archives: Jews
My Goyish Passivity
A Jewish friend tells me: “If you go to a restaurant and pay for a steak and only receive a glass of water, that’s ok in Seventh-Day Adventist world. You take it. But not in Jew world! That doesn’t fly … Continue reading
Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History by Marc B. Shapiro
I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book for years. Surely it is the most anticipated Jewish book of 2015. When I checked last week, it was the top-selling Judaism book on Amazon.com. Changing the Immutable does not disappoint. It is chock-filled … Continue reading
NYT: Campus Debates on Israel Drive a Wedge Between Jews and Minorities
Comments to Steve Sailer: * But without BDS, how else will the ADL extort money form elderly Holocaust survivors who are worried that they’re Boycotting the Jews again? You’re assuming this is a bad thing. * American Jews will distance … Continue reading
‘By Way Of Deception’
I’m reading this 1990 book by ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky. There’s a debate about how much of it is true. Ostrosvky writes: * They did in Sri Lanka, however. Amy Yaar made the connection, then tied the country in militarily … Continue reading
NYT: ‘Forbidden Films’ Exhumes Nazi Poison From the Movie Vaults
NYT: “The Third Reich was not only a totalitarian state but also a total multimedia regime. Seven decades after its fiery collapse, the embers remain — including some 1,200 feature films produced under Joseph Goebbels’s ministry of propaganda. Are they … Continue reading
American doctor declared free of Ebola finds the virus in his eye months later
Even if this outbreak leads to massive blindness of survivors and continued outbreaks of Ebola, isn’t that a small price to pay for continuing our responsibility to help Africa? CNN report. * I’ve been dealing with women who don’t know … Continue reading
What makes a Jewish dentist run for the U.K.’s anti-immigration party?
From Haaretz: Raymond Shamash is a candidate in the May 7 general election for the United Kingdom Independence Party, slammed for its anti-EU, xenophobic stances. It can be hard to stand up for what you believe in, as Raymond Shamash, … Continue reading
Jews Can Be Challenging
I notice that Jews tend to complain more than Protestants. The Torah portrays Jews as a difficult people. This stubbornness can be an asset though. It can be thought of as an unwillingness to settle for mediocrity. It can also … Continue reading
When Will The Goyim Get Their Act Together?
From Return of Kings: What amazes me is how methodical, patient, and determined Jews are in promoting their group interests. Such efforts should be commended and modeled. Why isn’t there such a group of Americans that do the same for … Continue reading
This Got On The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s ‘Top Ten Anti-Semitic Slurs” for 2010’
Christina Patterson writes: When I first moved to Stamford Hill, I didn’t realise that goyim were about as welcome in Hasidic Jewish shops as Martin Luther King at a Klu Klux Klan convention. I would like to teach some of … Continue reading