Category Archives: Israel

Hitler & The Jews

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Luke Ford

The conventional wisdom is that Hitler and the Nazis despised Jews and thought they were vermin. The truth is closer to the opposite — they feared Jews because of their high intelligence and drive. I’m rereading Paul Johnson‘s classic, Modern … Continue reading →

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David Hazony: The Anti-Semitism We Never Talk About

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Luke Ford

He begins: “When a large number of foreign-policy experts—both Republicans and Democrats—falsely attribute many of the world’s ills to the Jewish state, they are channeling an ancient hatred. The time has come to say so.” Wow! That’s telling them! That’s … Continue reading →

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JJ: Will Israel’s achievement gap stall the start-up nation?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

The Jewish Journal writes: Jewish Israeli students scored 133 points higher than Arab Israeli students on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests in 2012. And even within the Hebrew-speaking group, students from strong socioeconomic backgrounds scored 100 points … Continue reading →

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Israel Shows The Way Forward

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Anthropologist Peter Frost writes: Westernization seemed to be the secret to success. In the 19th century, Ashkenazi Jews embraced it with the fervor of the newly converted, using Yiddishkeit as a vehicle to spread the ideals of the Enlightenment—progress, freedom, … Continue reading →

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Remembering Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Yehuda Moreno

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

In this class on Tanya, 19 minutes in, Rabbi Zev Reichman says: Emmanuel Moreno was the greatest Jewish warrior since the days of Bar Kochba. He was a genius for languages. He was put into a special unit within the … Continue reading →

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