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Category Archives: Jews
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
WP: Hollywood’s race problem: An insular industry struggles to change
This is an excellent Washington Post article on this pressing problem. I give a hearty mazal tov and yasher koach to its authors — the Oriental Cecilia Kang, the black Krissah Thompson, and the white guy Drew Harwell. What makes … Continue reading
German Nationalist Marches Grow
REPORT: “The German PEGIDA movement held its largest meeting yet last night to protest what they call the ‘Islamisation of the Western World’, despite stiff opposition from all sections of Germany’s elite including politicians, media, and the arts.” I read … Continue reading