Category Archives: Israel

Talking Nationalism With The Rabbi

00:00 Rabbi Judas Maccabeus, https://twitter.com/JudasMaccabeus7 02:00 Rabbi’s Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgG… 04:00 Sephardic Jewry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephard… 05:00 Jewish Day Schools, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_… 09:30 Attitudes toward America 10:40 Average IQs among Mizrahim, Sephardim, Ashkenazim 11:00 Judas believes IQ is primarily the result of genetics … Continue reading

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How Much Do American Jews Care About Israel?

According to the new Pew Research Center report on American Jewry: Eight-in-ten U.S. Jews say caring about Israel is an essential or important part of what being Jewish means to them. Nearly six-in-ten say they personally feel an emotional attachment … Continue reading

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Rockets Over Jerusalem (5-10-21)

00:00 Dooovid joins to discuss Israel 41:10 Kenneth Brown on nationalism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bFDmBNBkw 46:00 Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, https://www.wsj.com/articles/unsettled-review-theconsensus-on-climate-11619383653 50:40 Identity Politics Wins Big in the UK Elections, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1KbhM_SPg 53:30 Rush Limbaugh … Continue reading

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Israel pilgrimage stampede kills 45, Margarita interview, On Winks and Lies (4-30-21)

00:00 Dooovid joins, he was watching live, https://vinnews.com/2021/04/30/photos-of-the-israeli-lag-baomer-tragedy/ 35:00 Margarita, essayist: https://twitter.com/margaritaevna95 36:00 Margarita’s Substack, https://margaritasmanuscript.substack.com/ 37:20 Sincerity and loneliness 40:20 Margarita’s worldview 46:20 Margarita was raised Hindu 58:00 Feminism 1:02:30 Getting redpilled 1:05:00 Jordan Peterson 1:54:30 Philosophy of health … Continue reading

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When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel

Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * To illuminate the core tensions that concern the protagonists of this book, it is instructive to begin with an alternative conversion policy route suggested in the early 2000s by a prominent … Continue reading

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