Monthly Archives: August 2017

The liberal Zionist crisis — white nationalists are villains, but settlers are ‘complex’

I think the healthy attitude for all people is to put your own people first. They should be one’s primary political concern. Interests over principles. I do not care if Israel is a liberal democracy. My first concern is that … Continue reading

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Identity Politics

Stephen Steinlight posts on FB: “One of the gods of my youth [Jim Brown] unsurprisingly gets is exactly right. All of us should be unhyphenated Americans first, last and always, and we should honor our national symbols. Then — yes … Continue reading

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Rabbi claims he was vilified for welcoming non-white members

A lot of Jews do not want non-whites in their synagogues, schools and neighborhoods. Jews tend to lead white flight though some Hasidic Jews stay (such as Chabad in Crown Heights). New York Post: A Westchester rabbi who sought to … Continue reading

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May Gentiles Play Music For Jews On Shabbat?

This no longer happens in Orthodox life (it has generally been forbidden since the destruction of the temple in 70). In his first lecture for Torah in Motion on the Ben Ish Chai (Baghdadi rabbi in the 19th Century, handled … Continue reading

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We Need To Start Befriending Neo-Nazis

Bethany Mandel (who has blocked me on Twitter because I criticized her) writes: The subject of our third remarkable story is Derek Black, the scion of famous white supremacists. His father, Don Black, was the brains behind Stormfront, the Internet’s … Continue reading

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