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Category Archives: Jews
HalseyNews: Mike Enoch Vs. Halsey English: What if Jews Were Black?
Mike Hendrix writes: What if Jews were black? This is what kept crossing my mind while watching the very popular YouTube debate between Halsey English and Mike Enoch. The reason this crossed my mind? I just kept imagining the NBA … Continue reading
Haaretz: “The Link Between Jews and Money Is No Longer Taboo”
I am currently compiling a list of everything I was taught about money growing up such as: * Money is hard to get and easy to lose. * The more money you have, the more problems. * The more stuff … Continue reading
Young Jewish Men Are More Right Wing Than Their White Counterparts
Young Jewish men are more right-wing than young whites. pic.twitter.com/KvEPk2A06p — The Rebbe (@The_Rebbe_) February 15, 2018
Chain Of Command
I’ve watched the first five episodes of this National Geographic documentary series and it is amazing that the United States is so heavily invested in fighting something as subjective and amorphous as “violent extremism.” This is an arbitrary moral category. … Continue reading
Tabletmag: ‘Eagles Fans, the NFL’s Most Notorious, Have an Important Spiritual Lesson to Teach Us – We need a little rowdy tribalism’
I think this is the first time I’ve liked anything Liel Liebovitz had to say. He writes: Why would anyone put up with this behavior, let alone revel in it? Why tolerate such boorishness, inflected as it is with violence … Continue reading
Jewish Success In South Africa
Steve Sailer writes: De Beers was long controlled by the Oppenheimer family, which got into a public feud with the Guptas a year ago. In general, it’s not a good idea to get on the wrong side of somebody named … Continue reading
TabletMag: HOW JEWS SHOULD DEAL WITH GENTILES – According to this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, as little as possible
Adam Kirsch writes: The nominal subject of Tractate Avoda Zara is idol worship, one of the worst sins in Judaism. But as Daf Yomi readers complete our third week of studying this tractate, it is becoming clear that the real … Continue reading
The JQ in the GOP
David Cole is not able to point out where Paul Nehlen is wrong so he just calls him “obsessed”. Whenever I encounter that word flung as an accusation, I suspect the accuser has no factual or logical basis to attack … Continue reading
What Makes Someone Jewish?
I just did a podcast with Jim Goad.
Forward: The Biggest Threat To The Jews? The Partisan Divide
Yehuda Kertzer writes: The second problem with partisanship for American Jews is that it reduces Jewish power. People don’t like talking about Jewish power out loud because, despite good intentions, it either sounds anti-Semitic itself or gives fodder for anti-Semites. … Continue reading