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Category Archives: Jews
Why Don’t I Care More About Muslim Suffering?
I read in the news that Muslims are suffering a backlash in France after the murder of 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine. I don’t know if I have a particularly cold heart, but when I look … Continue reading
My Last Dinner Date With A Jewish Girl
It was our first time out. She was secular. I was Orthodox. We had met at a Shabbat dinner that Spring. Now we were having a weeknight meal at a kosher restaurant in 90035. After the food arrived and we … Continue reading
It’s Still About The Country Clubs
From comments to Steve Sailer: * You don’t see many blacks being welcomed into synagogues, or many Gentiles welcomed into the Jews only country clubs that surround New York City. * The smart way, I assume, to keep non-Whites out: … Continue reading
Jews Must Live
In Genesis 47:29-30, this past week’s Torah portion and the final Torah portion from the Book of Genesis: “When Jacob’s death drew near, he called his son Joseph and asked him to put his hand under Jacob’s thigh and swear … Continue reading
Jews & Gentiles
When I hear a view from within one in-group, I like to wonder out loud how it would be received if the identical view was expressed by another in-group. I’m listening to a Dec. 25 lecture by Orthodox rabbi Shlomo … Continue reading
Help Us Build Jewish Unity
I routinely hear appeals for Jewish unity. Here’s one I got via email today from a worthy organization: Shalom Luke, Rav Kook taught that “we need to educate toward spiritual unity.” I agree – and I am very gratified that … Continue reading
Jews Mastering The World
From The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank) 1894-1915 by academic Albert S. Lindemann: Observers as different as Winston Churchill and Theodore Herzl firmly believed that international Jewry exercised enormous power in international relations. Even figures who passed … Continue reading
Snitches Get Stitches
According to the Urban Dictionary, this phrase is “an old piece of advice that still rings true today..indicating that somebody who snitches on somebody else shall reap the fit punishment.” From the Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2014: This witness … Continue reading
Is It A Sin For A Jew To Love A Land Other Than Israel?
I don’t think most white non-Jews understand how ethnocentric Jews can be. A FB friend recently devoted a post to arguing that it is not sin for a Jew to love a place outside of Israel. Why would it even … Continue reading
When American Jews Don’t Consider Themselves Part Of America
I’m reading a 2007 essay by Marc B. Shapiro: The Torah im Derekh Erez philosophy [Torah with the way of the land], which was shared by virtually all German Orthodox Jews in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, began … Continue reading