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Category Archives: Jews
Time For Action
And yes, I mean THAT kind of action. Jews need to breed more, and toward that end, would it not be a mitzvah if every meeting of Jewish bigshots began and ended with a few dozen naked fertile ovulating young … Continue reading
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Amalek Opines on What’s Wrong with Jewish America and JDate
If I can’t land a lady via JDate, then there’s obviously something very wrong with JDate. My inner Amalek writes: You don’t see Mexicans trying to meet one another through "Mexdate" or Palestinian women fretting about the ticking of their … Continue reading
I Need Me A Yom Kippur Queen
Some secular Jews used to hold parties on Yom Kippur (the most solemn day of the Jewish year) and select a "Yom Kippur Queen."
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Two Jews In Kabul Hated Each Other
From the Washington Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — The first question Zebulon Simentov asked his uninvited guest, eyes wide open at the prospect: "Are you Jewish?" There was a tinge of disappointment when the reply came back negative, but the last … Continue reading
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The Jew’s Representative Penetrates VIP Briefing On Anti-Semitism
The American Cinema Foundation and Memri.org with co-hosts Lionel Chetwynd, Matt DelPiano, Tom Dreesen, Matthew Duda, Bob Gale, Gary McVey, Bruce Ramer, Gary Sinise, Jon Voight and David Zucker presents a program Sunday on the threat Jew-hatred poses to the … Continue reading
Who Controls The Jewish Media?
Jewish Survivors posts: It’s been obvious that various Jewish news media groups refuse to write about various issues such as various Jewish cults that are out there. This seems true especially when the cult leader received his ordination from an … Continue reading
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Cheeky Blog’s Jewish Obsession Strikes a Funny Bone of Contention
Gabriel Sanders writes: For regular Gawker readers, Balk’s posts were nothing out of the ordinary — studiously irreverent, rich with Jewish-themed cracks and sheathed in a layer of irony so thick that any and all criticism comes off sounding daft, … Continue reading
An Anti-Semitic Slur or a Mere Misunderstanding?
Rebecca Honig Friedman blogs: Blogger Yisrael Medad of My Right Word got himself into a (threatened) legal tiff with the Wonkette blog, over a post in which Medad questions whether a Wonkette post about one Rudy “Jew-liani” and the “Jew … Continue reading
The Future Of The Jews
Jack Wertheimer replies to Joey Kurtzman on Jewcy.com: You live at a time when well-educated Americans marry late, if at all, and have few children, if any. The fact that the responsibilities of parenting are far down the road for … Continue reading
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Jewish Touching
Hello, My name is Mark Guterman.¬†¬† I am a Clinical Psychology PhD student working with Orit Avishai of the University of California at Berkeley.¬† We are doing an internet survey of Jews of all denominations.¬†¬†The survey is for both singles … Continue reading
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