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Category Archives: Jews
Vicki Polin’s 1989 Oprah Appearance About Ritual Murder In The Jewish Community
I’m sure the powers that be will take down these videos quickly, but here you go for the moment, get ’em while they’re hot: Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Vicki’s appearance begins 11 minutes into the second video and … Continue reading
Bad Rebbe
I’d love to see a TV series or movie called “Bad Rebbe” about some imperious Hasidic rebbe who rules his followers with an iron fist, totally hierarchical and contemptuous of those below him, lives in luxury while his followers toil … Continue reading
Life In A Tribe
The tribal approach to life emphasizes your group over outsiders. When Jews are in trouble, such as when they were kidnapped for ransom in the Middle Ages in Crete etc, fellow Jews would rally around and ransom them while Christians … Continue reading
God, Orthodox Judaism, And The Rabbis
John Updike wrote in his novel SEEK MY FACE: “Or perhaps, if she is Jewish, she is unable to put the question of God quite the way a Christian would put it, in urgent terms of either/or. For the chosen … Continue reading
Students At Santa Monica High School Assigned To Argue For The Nazis
The Jewish Journal reports. Here’s a photo of the class assignment. Part Two of this story. Here are text messages the Jewish student at Santa Monica High School sent to her dad during the class wherein students were told to … Continue reading
Obsession with sin is strictly Christian
No other religion has it. I’ve never heard nor even heard or nor read any Jewish sermon against sin. In Reform and Conservative Judaism, there’s virtually no talk of sin and everything Jewish you want to do is applauded. In … Continue reading
My Relationship With God
Psychology explains almost everything. How else to account for my brother and I, children of a Christian evangelist, having the same relationship with our father and with God? I think most people relate to God the same way they relate … Continue reading
Where Were The Jews In The Mitt Romney Brain Trust?
Were there any Jews in the Mitt Romney brain trust? I don’t think so. A reason he lost. Obama’s brain trust was filled with Jews. A disproportionate number of the greatest political operatives have been Jewish, just as a disproportionate … Continue reading
Will They Put Us In Camps?
An Orthodox Jewish friend says: “If Obama is re-elected, we’ll be put in concentration camps.” Ridiculous, but typically bitter Jewish overstatement. You’ll see the same thing in the Torah. “At least in Egypt we had meat. You take us out … Continue reading
The First Time I Met A Jewish Woman
In May of 1993, I went to my first conversion class at Sacramento’s Orthodox shul Knesset Israel. Because I hadn’t called ahead and interviewed with the rabbi, he promptly asked me to leave. My friend Michael then took me to … Continue reading