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Category Archives: Jews
The Past is a Real-Talking Country
From the blog Those Who Can See: * We propose five categories of historical realtalk (some of which overlap in our quotes): Banal my-group preference The More Able remarking upon the Less Able The Less Able remarking upon the More … Continue reading
The Ultimate Jewish headline: “Hillary Clinton Is a Flawed Candidate — Just Like God”
Chaim Amalek: I’ll go one up on you: “. . . Except that Hillary is Real” “Rabbi Avraham Bronstein has served at The Hampton Synagogue and Great Neck Synagogue and is a frequent writer and speaker on contemporary issues in … Continue reading
Is Baseball Too White?
Are shuls too Jewish? Are churches too Christian? Is Hollywood too Jewish? Is the NBA too black? Slate editor Josh Levin writes: From the moment he made his debut for the Marlins, he ignored the fusty expectation that players—often young, … Continue reading
Shiksa: Biblical Roots of Racism by Professor John Hartung
According to his website: John Hartung is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and Professor of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York. His Ph.D. is in anthropology from Harvard. About half of Dr. Hartung’s publications … Continue reading
Tabletmag: ‘Sharing a home with a black man teaches you more about your white privilege than any book could’
The only thing that the Coalition of the Fringe has in common is hatred of white people. From Mic.com: “Carly Pildis is a Political Organizer who has spent her career fighting for social/economic justice and equality. She has worked on … Continue reading
Why Does Organized Jewry Have A Problem With Nativism?
John Derbyshire writes: A subset of American Jews—a subset, a minority—suffer from a kind of psychological deformation that keeps them trapped in a particular, strangely atavistic type of paranoia, of victim mentality. In this mentality, it’s always 1881 and we’re … Continue reading
Yoga teacher speaks out on being ‘drugged and fondled’ by boys at bar mitzvah, who ‘thought her breasts were their property because their family had paid for her implants’
Daily Mail: Lindsey Radomski was charged after allegedly showing boys her breasts She was found not guilty on all charges against her on September 14 Radomski, 33, claims she was drugged at party and the boys attacked her She says … Continue reading
WP: ‘Better-than-ever ‘Transparent’ transitions into a study of American Jewish-ness’
Washington Post: In ways that are both blunt and subtle, attentive viewers of the show now understand “Transparent” as a broader, epic story about the American Jewish experience — particularly as it is lived by a family with an on-again, … Continue reading
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Hit in Face with Pie at Event, Assaults Protester in ‘Bloody’ Scene
Comment: The mayor of Sacramento assaulting a pie-thrower……reminds me of this scene from Larry David’s “Curb your Enthusiasm” where Leon, Larry’s black friend, has trouble understanding why, to a personal slight, Larry would consider any response that wasn’t violent: * … Continue reading
‘Kindertransport’ Britons help today’s child refugees in Calais
Strangely, these British Jews are not trying to help Muslim refugees move to Israel. They only want First World gentile countries to swallow this poison. The Guardian: Their parents and grandparents were rescued from Nazi Germany, now they are raising … Continue reading