Daily Archives: December 22, 2017

Why all the sympathy for this slaughterhouse executive?

Samuel Freedman writes for the Washington Post: Such was the human face of the social wreckage visited upon Postville by its would-be savior, an Orthodox Jewish executive and rabbi named Sholom Rubashkin. This same man, who was convicted of a … Continue reading

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Losing Her Religion

From the New York Times Book Review: THE BOOK OF SEPARATION A Memoir By Tova Mirvis 302 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $26. Modern Orthodox Judaism — a loosely defined sect that adheres to the strictures of Jewish Scripture, while engaging … Continue reading

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Billy Joel’s ‘Only The Good Die Young’

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Joel claims he wrote the song about a real girl he tried to bed when he was a teenager. * First four verses: I want to get in your pants, Virginia, please discard your silly … Continue reading

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Why The Jews? The Reasons For Anti-Semitism

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Postville. Sholom Rubashkin. You have a functioning high trust community of generally solid citizens and decent people. Some Jew comes in and turns it into a globo pigsty full of Mexicans and Somalis precisely because … Continue reading

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