Why Is There An ADL And A SPLC?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

Why is there an Anti-Defamation League and a Southern Poverty Law Center? Aren’t they duplicating tasks?

They’re a tag team. If you violate left-wing norms and say anything critical about Jews (who are as deserving of criticism as any group), the ADL will call you an anti-Semite. If you say anything critical of blacks or latinos or asians, the SPLC will call you a racist.

The ADL sounds like they’re the real Jewish deal. The SPLC is just as Jewish but they have a goyisha gloss. And the Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrap themselves up in the Holocaust and in trying to prevent another Holocaust, so they too are untouchable. The media treat all three groups as credible voices for civil rights. If you oppose the ADL, you’re treated as an antisemite. If you oppose the SPLC, you’re treated as a racist. If you oppose the Museum of Tolerance, you’re a bigot.

From a Torah perspective, all of these organizations are nonsense. If something is real, you can find it in Torah. If you can’t find it in Torah, it doesn’t have moral significance. There is no term in the Torah literature for racism. There is no mitzvah in the Torah literature to fight antisemitism. There is no mitzvah in Torah to build museums about genocide. These are all preoccupations anathema to Torah and the Torah-observant Jew is the least likely Jew to give these organizations any heed or any money.

When you are empty or are willing to do anything for money and status, you make up things to give your life meaning. Building museums about the Holocaust is an empty endeavor. Fighting racism (the term was developed by leftists in the 1930s to slur what throughout history was only the common sense of preferring your own kind) is an empty endeavor. Fighting antisemitism is an empty endeavor. There is no encouragement in Torah for any of these pursuits. Did any of our greatest rabbis such as Moshe Feinstein or Ovadiah Yosef spend their time in these ways? No. These causes are vain. They fill up empty people — the Jews in these movements have given us no body of Torah scholarship — with a sense of righteousness that they use to persecute people who point out basic truths such as that different peoples, on average, have different gifts and that together black, white, yellow and Jew make up the complete image of God.

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JP: Rabbi charged with stealing $12.4 million from New York disabled kids

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

JP: “NEW YORK – A New York rabbi and three others were indicted for stealing over $12.4 million in public aid for disabled pre-schoolers and using it to spruce up their homes, get catering discounts and fund a relative’s cosmetics business, authorities said on Tuesday.”

“The four men, who had ties to one of the city’s largest providers of special education services for disabled pre-schoolers, were due in court on Tuesday on criminal charges in a 42-count indictment, including grand larceny, identity theft, and falsifying business records, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.”

In Los Angeles, we have Jews in trouble for taking advantage of dying patients in a life insurance scam.

Judaism is a religion of law, which means that Jews are better than most at dealing with laws and working a system of law to their advantage.

We have a prominent doctor in Pico-Robertson, Gershon Hepner, who racked multiple felonies for ripping off insurance.

I suspect that many if not most yeshivas in the United States are supported by money laundering and tax cheating.

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Dean Baquet Is The New Editor Of The New York Times

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

I briefly met Dean Baquet at the Los Angeles Festival of Books and was strongly impressed by his people skills. Even though I had written critically of him and expected that he knew that, our short wave and exchange made me feel like a million bucks. It’s no surprise that he has risen to the top of his profession and spurned offers from competing journalism outfits such as Bloomberg News.

Would he be New York Times Editor if he were white? I don’t know. He does not identify as black but as creole (who were never slaves in his hometown of New Orleans).

I also suppose that the complaints about Jill Abramson from staffers were wide and deep and that Dean is much more popular in the newsroom (as well as among the business side).

Politico reports:

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced Wednesday that she will leave the paper, two sources familiar with the news informed POLITICO. Managing editor Dean Baquet will take over as executive editor, effective immediately.

The news was greeted with shock throughout the newsroom. Senior editors were unexpectedly summoned to a 2 p.m. leadership meeting at the Times headquarters in New York. The news was then announced to staff by publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at a 2:35 p.m. meeting.

In his announcement, Sulzberger said Abramson’s departure was related to “an issue with management in the newsroom,” and had nothing to do with the quality of the paper’s journalism during her tenure. Abramson was not present for the newsroom announcement.

“I choose to appoint a new leader for our newsroom because I believe that new leadership will improve some aspects of the management of the newsroom,” Sulzberger said. “This is not about any disagreement between the newsroom and the business side.”

Baquet’s introduction as executive editor was greeted with a standing ovation in New York. Baquet, a former Washington bureau chief, will be the paper’s first African-American editor.

Here is New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.’s memo to staff:

From: NYT Company Mail
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:34 PM
To: All Company Employees
Subject: Note from Arthur

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to announce a leadership change in the newsroom. Effective today, Dean Baquet will become our new executive editor, succeeding Jill Abramson.

This appointment comes at a time when the newsroom is about to embark on a significant effort to transition more fully to a digital-first reality and where, across the organization, we are all learning to adapt to the rapid pace of change in our business.

We owe Jill an enormous debt of gratitude for positioning the newsroom to succeed on both of these critical counts and of course, for preserving and extending the level of our journalistic excellence and innovation. She’s laid a great foundation on which I fully expect Dean and his colleagues will build.

As those of you who know Dean will understand, he is uniquely suited to this role. He is a proven manager, both here at The Times and elsewhere. He is also a consummate journalist whose reputation as a fierce advocate for his reporters and editors is well-deserved. And importantly, he is an enthusiastic supporter of our push toward further creativity in how we approach the digital expression of our journalism.

I know you will join me, Mark and the rest of the senior leadership team in wishing Jill the best and congratulating Dean on his appointment.

Arthur

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Is There Much To Learn From People Who’ve Left Orthodox Judaism?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

Most Orthodox Jews were born into this way of life. Converts and pentitents (baalei teshuva) get media attention but are not terribly significant in Orthodox Jewish numbers.

As a convert to Orthodox Judaism, I have no problem understanding the main reason why people leave — it is a very difficult way of life. I suspect that religiosity and the ability to conform to a stifling community are in part genetic and some Orthodox Jews are not going to have that genetic ability and so they leave.

I don’t know if there’s much to be learned by dialoguing with those who’ve left the path, but others disagree.

Much of life can be understood by simply asking — what’s easiest? Most people most of the time will do what is easiest for them. The reasons people give for their behavior usually have nothing to do with their real reasons, which they may not even be conscious of.

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The Death Of Michael Fumento’s Career

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

Michael Fumento writes on FB: Don’t get me wrong, Chris. I can WRITE whatever I wish; I’m just not allowed to publish anywhere. Even for free. It’s like when the Nazis took over in Germany or the Communists took over in eastern Europe. If you were an intellectual, or a corporate head, or perhaps just university professor you either joined the party or your career ended. You didn’t necessarily get sent to a camp like Dachau or to the Gulag, you just didn’t have a career anymore. Brilliant people with doctorates ended up as janitors and cooks, where it no longer matter what opinions they held or or well they researched and backed them up.

In the US, actually a good deal of my writing was or should have been apolitical. Like saying embryonic stem cells were little more than a nostrum and the future was in adult stem cells. I was completely right and indeed it’s recently been announced that mere blood transfusions can make mice “younger” because of the exposure to adult stem cells. But OTHER people converted stem cells to a political issue, often because they had invested massive amounts of money in embryonic research.

Indeed, my career was based on DEpoliticizing science, from AIDS and ethanol on. As such I was seen as dangerous to those who insisted on politicizing them. As American become less and less tolerant of dissenting views, one publication after another stopped running me because of a single article THEY had chosen to publish. Two gave me the boot for writing about the anti-vaccine hysteria; yet a third for making such a good case against the Atkins diet.

Meanwhile, virtually all think tanks went “pay for play.” Which, ironically, I was constantly accused of doing! But I COULDN’T do it. Just not wired that way. So the US polarized and you had to choose one team and be 100 percent loyal to it, people like me were put in position of those who refused to join the Nazi or Communist parties, not that I’m accusing either US major political party of being like either — it’s a metaphor. Indeed, REFUSING to do so was part of my problem.

So what does an honest intellectual and writer do in a time when society is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War? He can do what they’ve done since time immemorial and leave the country. I just haven’t been able to convert that into anything, in part because in the past the country that WELCOMED the dissenters was the US! Irony of ironies!

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People Prefer Their Own Kind

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

There’s no need to wring our hands that many non-Persians find certain schools and shuls “too Persian.” This is part of the human condition and we should have freedom of association so that if people don’t want to associate with Jews or Persians or blacks, they should not be forced to. We all prefer our own kind. We all choose to live, work, socialize and worship in a segregated way. Very few whites and asians live in neighborhoods with a 20% or higher mix of latinos and blacks. When we are forced to interact with people who are different from us, we find it tiring, annoying, and sometimes tragic. People are happier when they lead segregated lives and they are less happy with they are forced to mix with people who are different.

Non-Persians I’ve known who’ve married Persians have found it an extra strain. Most people find an inter-racial marriage an extra challenge.

Dr. Afshine Emrani writes in the Jewish Journal:

There is an open wound that is infecting all Jews in Los Angeles. While across the street UCLA students are battling rampant anti-Semitism, at many of our temples and schools, we are facing anti-Persian bigotry. “This school is way too Persian. I wouldn’t send my kids there.” Chances are, if you are not Persian you have whispered this.

With the growing and dominant Persian culture in Los Angeles, this week, Sinai Akiba Academy ran a bold ad in the back of The Jewish Journal entitled “”Too Persian.” Looks awful in print? It sounds worse in a whisper.” This ad is a product of some six months of deliberation and committee meetings made up of both Persian and Ashkenazi members to combat a growing prejudice. However, some Persians are upset over this ad. I wonder if those angry have not read past the title.

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Many Jews Don’t Like Christianity

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager writes:

I believe it is significant that three of the four dissenting justices are the three Jews on the Supreme Court — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. So, too, one of the two women (the “respondents” at the Supreme Court level) who filed the original lawsuit against the town of Greece is a Jew. And Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the Union for Reform Judaism, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Anti-Defamation League, had filed amicus curiae briefs in support of the women.
This is all significant because the Jewish justices, the Jewish woman who brought the suit against the New York town and all the Jewish organizations that filed briefs in support of the two respondents represent a battle that many American Jews and Jewish organizations have been waging for decades against public expressions of God and religion. American Jews have become the most active ethnic or religious group in America attempting to remove God and religion from the public square.
Why is this the case? Why have American Jews been so active in fighting any expressions of God and religion in the country that has been the most hospitable to us in our long history?
Nearly every Jew who does so will give this answer: In order to fight for the separation of church and state in America.
But let’s be honest. If there were no such concept in America — and in fact, the phrase “separation of church and state” never appears in the Constitution — most American Jews would be just as opposed to public expressions of faith.
So, then, once again: Why are American Jews so opposed to public religious expressions? Moreover, this opposition exists not only to government-sponsored religious expression. For example, many Jews are avid supporters of substituting “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas” or “holiday party” for “Christmas party.”
I think there are four reasons.
One is antipathy to Christianity. Most Jews just don’t like Christianity. They associate it with centuries of anti-Semitism, and therefore believe that a de-Christianized America will be a much more secure place for them.
Second, many American Jews feel “excluded” when Christianity is expressed in public.
A third reason is antipathy to religion generally. Most Jews are little more positively disposed to Orthodox Judaism than they are to traditional Christianity.
That leads to reason four: a fervent belief in secularism. Most American Jews believe in secularism as fervently as Orthodox Jews believe in the Torah or traditional Christians believe in Christ.

On Dec. 24, 2013, Dennis wrote a column titled “Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas”. So most Jews don’t like Christianity but do wish you a merry Christmas. One of those beliefs is sincere and one is insincere. I suspect that Jewish dislike of Christianity is sincere and Jews wishing you a Merry Christmas is usually the easy way out for them.

Jews dislike Christianity for the same reason that the State, once it has executed a man or watched him die in prison, will insist on his guilt.

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Who Is Our Most Important Journalist?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

According to Weekend Pundit:

[Nicholas] Wade, an established science writer for thirty years with The New York Times, has recently published a book, A Troublesome Inheritance, that has merits according to some reviewers like Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire. It looks at genetics and race. And in an engaging interview with our most important journalist–Luke Ford, a convert to Orthodox Judaism who grew up in Australia as a Seventh-Day Adventist and is largely apartment-bound in Beverly Hills, Calif., with some mysterious ailment–it begins like this:

Luke: “What were the biggest challenges in writing this book?”

Nicholas: “I think the biggest challenge was that I had so few scientific sources to guide me in interpretation because this is an area where academics cannot tread for fear of being accused of racism and careers destroyed.”

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Orit Arfa Says She’s Cleaning Up Her Act

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

I identify with Orit because she’s always bopping from the risque to the respectable.

She emails her list: I have received a unique opportunity to relocate to the Tel Aviv area to work for a PR firm that represents causes that are dear to my heart.

Sadly, this means I will no longer be a “settler” (well, depends on whom you ask), but I will remain one spiritually. It has been a wonderful year of growth and inspiration living in the beautiful hills, and I will always reach for their heights.

Second, you may be glad to know I’m no longer running around half-naked promoting the land of Israel and God through Miley Cyrus parodies. I’ve cleaned up my act and have produced a Disney-worthy music video. Check it out below.

It ends with a powerful, moving message very relevant today. Most importantly, you can share it with the kids!

Orit has a new book out — Spinoza & Ayn Rand: Soulmates:

The famous Dutch philosopher and Jewish iconoclast, Spinoza, outlined a view of God that called forth a philosophy of reason and egoism, thereby revolutionizing organized religion and paving way for the Enlightenment. About 400 years later, in the twentieth century, philosopher/novelist Ayn Rand, a devout atheist of Jewish descent, also called forth a philosophy of reason and egoism through novels about men and women who act according to their rational self-interest, most famously The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

While Spinoza’s God-centric view of the universe outlined in his magnum opus, Ethics, may seem at odds with Rand’s atheistic base, their view of man, ethics, and the way we come to knowledge are actually so similar as to render these two thinkers…soulmates.

This e-book demonstrates the deep similarities in their thought, allowing their respective works to serve as literary companions for anyone seeking to understand their philosophies and a philosophy of humankind that allows us to realize our highest potential.

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Jewish Paranoia vs Christian Faith

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Luke Ford

I was walking into a party a while ago and ran into two goyim. One guy had tattooed writing up his arm.

“What does that writing mean?” I asked. “Kill the Jews?”

“No,” he said, shaking his head. “It says that we can achieve all things through our faith in Jesus.”

“Same thing,” I replied.

The goyim were stunned.

As a convert to Judaism, I’ve developed a twinge that any strong racial, religious or national pride on the part of the goyim is dangerous to my well-being and could lead to a Holocaust. Hence a guy with tattoos praising Jesus instinctively puts me on alert.

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