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Category Archives: Jews
‘I’m Here To Pick Up The Jew’
A goy friend got some money and her Jewish friend advised her to "invest it and Jew it up." BF comes by says, "I'm here to pick up the Jew." — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) September 14, 2017 If a Jew … Continue reading
‘I can ‘do Jewish’ on just $40,000 a year’
A married father of four writes: We reviewed this short list of items and my advisor said, “You realize the greatest expense to your life is your religion. It is consuming over half of your post tax take home pay. … Continue reading
Vanity Fair Editor Who Pretended To Be Jewish Steps Down
Why would anyone pretend to be Jewish? Because Jews dominate certain parts of American cultural life, such as publishing. Jews occupy the high ground. Someone who wants to make it has an incentive to pass as Jewish or even to … Continue reading
LGBT Americans Are Disproportionately Jewish
Forward: “While only 2% of Americans are Jewish, the study found that 6% of LGBT Americans identify as Jews. Nearly half (46%) of LGBT Americans are religiously unaffiliated, roughly twice the American average of 24%.” There seem to be a … Continue reading
NYT: ‘He Thought He’d Be Your Rabbi. Now, He’ll Get You a Mortgage.’
The purpose of establishing a home is to invite everyone in. Ron Lieber writes in the New York Times: PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps it was preordained that David Frankel would become a mortgage banker… But his path to the industry was … Continue reading
Why Jewish parents should talk about neo-Nazis with their children
Sivan Zakai writes: “It is not enough for contemporary American-Jewish children to know that white supremacy and neo-Nazism are gaining traction in the United States, yet these are the very bits of information that kids are most likely to pick … Continue reading
WAS HOLLYWOOD TOO JEWISH?
Is “Jewish” what is in the sacred texts of Judaism or is “Jewish” what a lot of Jews do? I’m fine with both definitions and more. I remember working prole jobs, making tons of mistakes, and being told by Jewish … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: ‘Max Boot, Mr. Invade-The-World-Invite-The-World, Doesn’t Feel Like an American Anymore’
I keep meeting Hillary-voting South African Jews who supported the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa. They have no moral doubts that was all for the good, even though the average life expectancy in that country dropped a decade after … Continue reading
Power Corrupts
I study the incisive iSteve comments of Catholic poster Maj. Kong like they’re Torah from Heaven: * A much higher % of billionaires are Jewish, than would be expected from their share of the population. The same is true with … Continue reading
Why Are Europe’s Jews To The Right Of American Jews?
From Steve Sailer: From commenter Irish Paleo: Seeing things, as I do, from the Eastern side of the Atlantic, it’s fascinating the degree to which the different demographic vectors in Europe and America have driven the political priorities of: (a) … Continue reading