Category Archives: Jews

Black Americans and Israel

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: In an atmosphere of growing racial tension and facing up to pockets of racism within our own community, it is great to see some people doing something about both problems. No strangers to creating kiddush Hashem, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blacks, Israel, Jews | Comments Off on Black Americans and Israel

R. Yitzhok Alderstein: ‘What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural’

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Adlerstein writes: Decades ago, too long ago for most of us to remember, Jews and African-Americans enjoyed a close strategic alliance. The marriage broke up horribly. Blacks felt that they had been dealt with paternalistically, and also resented a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blacks, Jews, R. Yitzhock Adlerstein | Comments Off on R. Yitzhok Alderstein: ‘What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural’

The Big Short: Film and Book

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Luke Ford

Different groups have different gifts and different interests and whenever one group rises in power, other groups necessarily decline in power. I am all for examining the different roles different groups play. Steve Sailer, Tom Sowell and Paul Sperry have … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Jews, Wall Street | Comments Off on The Big Short: Film and Book

Jewish Racial Purity

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Adam Kirsch writes about tractate Kiddushin, the current portion of the Talmud studied in the daily practice of “Daf Yomi” — a folio page of Talmud a day: …21st-century geneticists discovered what they called the Cohen Modal Haplotype, a set … Continue reading →

Posted in Jews, Talmud | Comments Off on Jewish Racial Purity

Tribalism Vs Universalism Among Jews

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Professor Michael Barnett says: “From the 1850s through the 1967 war, American Jewish institutions that were involved in foreign policy making had a strong universal orientation, especially to the extent that they were concerned about being identified with the extremes … Continue reading →

Posted in America, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews, Nationalism | Comments Off on Tribalism Vs Universalism Among Jews