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Category Archives: Jews
George Carlin and the Jewish question
Jerusalem Post: For Israeli comedian and author Charley Warady, the death of George Carlin, the American iconic counterculture comic, is shocking and sad. But as Carlin likely would have wanted, Warady and others are still able to laugh. “He was … Continue reading
Black Americans and Israel
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: In an atmosphere of growing racial tension and facing up to pockets of racism within our own community, it is great to see some people doing something about both problems. No strangers to creating kiddush Hashem, … Continue reading
R. Yitzhok Alderstein: ‘What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural’
Rabbi Adlerstein writes: Decades ago, too long ago for most of us to remember, Jews and African-Americans enjoyed a close strategic alliance. The marriage broke up horribly. Blacks felt that they had been dealt with paternalistically, and also resented a … Continue reading
The Big Short: Film and Book
Different groups have different gifts and different interests and whenever one group rises in power, other groups necessarily decline in power. I am all for examining the different roles different groups play. Steve Sailer, Tom Sowell and Paul Sperry have … Continue reading
Jewish Racial Purity
Adam Kirsch writes about tractate Kiddushin, the current portion of the Talmud studied in the daily practice of “Daf Yomi” — a folio page of Talmud a day: …21st-century geneticists discovered what they called the Cohen Modal Haplotype, a set … Continue reading
Tribalism Vs Universalism Among Jews
Professor Michael Barnett says: “From the 1850s through the 1967 war, American Jewish institutions that were involved in foreign policy making had a strong universal orientation, especially to the extent that they were concerned about being identified with the extremes … Continue reading
Transgender Bathrooms Are a Human Rights Struggle – and a Jewish Imperative
Chaim Amalek writes: “To be fair, it is not as though non-orthodox rabbis are the only clerics in the West who have embraced this cause. There are plenty of Christian pastors who have as well, and the sympathy of the … Continue reading
‘Jewish face of immigration reform’ sentenced to 15 years in prison for child porn and sexually exploiting boy with brain cancer
Daily Mail: Man featured in Time cover story on immigration reform is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child porn and sexually exploiting boy with brain cancer Roy Naim, 32, was featured in 2012 story ‘We are Americans’ Federal … Continue reading
Pamela Geller, Breitbart: On Trump and the Jews, David Horowitz Is Right
Pamela Geller writes: David Horowitz is under heavy fire from the Republican establishment for his article “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew,” in which he points out that, as the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump is “the only obstacle to … Continue reading
NYT: At Warby Parker, a Sense of Exclusion in a Low Price
Comment: This NYT article At Warby Parker, a Sense of Exclusion in a Low Price about ‘cheap’ glasses reminds me of Steve’s country club exclusion theory of Jewish projection vexation. Ginia Bellafante writes: The story of Warby Parker more or … Continue reading