David Bernstein writes in 2014: According this article, ADL surveys show that “approximately 12 percent of Americans hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views.” However, over 30% of African Americans and Latinos hold such views. Given that they are almost 30% of the population, this suggests that of the 12% of Americans who hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, 9% or so are African Americans or Latinos. This means, in turn, of the 70% or so of the population that is not African American or Latino, only 3% hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views. Put another way, less than 5% of whites, Asians, and “others” (including Native Americans) combined hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, compared to over 30% of African Americans and Latinos–or at least that’s the difference in percentages of those willing to express anti-Semitic attitudes to pollsters. Regardless, it seems odd given these numbers that Jews seem especially concerned about mostly phantom anti-Semitism emanating from white evangelical Christians, while being less concerned about anti-Semitism in core Democratic constituencies. But, as Ilya pointed out a few years back, “many studies show that people tend to devalue or ignore any information that makes their political adversaries look good, while overvaluing anything that looks bad.”
The article adds: “[Retiring ADL President Abe] Foxman attributes the persistence of anti-Semitism among African-Americans to denial of the problem and a dearth of black leaders speaking out against anti-Semitism. Among Latinos, the attitudes are seen as a holdover from Latin America, where traditional Catholic anti-Semitism persists and anti-Semitic attitudes are higher than in America. Once they acculturate to the United States, Latino anti-Semitism declines: Among first-generation immigrants, about 40 percent hold anti-Semitic attitudes; among those born here, the number falls to 20 percent. ”
UPDATE: A reader points me to the most recent ADL survey, from 2013, which shows a lower rate of black (22%) and Latino (36% foreign-born, 14% native-born) anti-Semitism than the article states. The 2011 data comes closer to matching the author’s assertion, but the overall figure there was not 12% but 15% overall, and 29% (not over 30%) for African Americans and 42 and 20% for foreign and native-born Latinos, respectively. The rates for whites were 8% and 9% in 2013 and 2011. So I’m not sure if the author is looking at different data, or just got his facts wrong. Nevertheless, the basic point, that “entrenched anti-Semitic views” are far more common among African Americans and Latinos than among others, still holds.
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“The Census Bureau has just reported that about half of the American population will soon be non-white or non-European. And they will all be American citizens. We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be able to prevail in this country. We have been nourishing the American climate of opposition to bigotry for about half a century. That climate has not yet been perfected, but the heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make it irreversible — and makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry more practical than ever. (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin, February 19, p. 23)
“It was only after World War II that immigration law was drastically changed … In one of the first pieces of evidence of its political coming-of-age, the Jewish community had a leadership role in effecting those changes.” (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin, July 23, 1993, p. 17)
“For me, just being in Jerusalem is spiritual. From the appearance of the sky, which seems to me to curve over the city, to the ancient kind of evidence that is there. I felt that way the first time I was there, and I’ve had that feeling on occasions since. The first time was in the 60’s. I had a sense I was in a different place, a spiritual place that stretched back to the beginning of history, of Jewish history. If I sat down and tried to figure out exactly what it is that gave me that feeling, I don’t think I could. It was just a sensation I felt right away.” (Earl Raab, online Hadassah Magazine)
“If America is losing its leadership edge and resolve [to protect Israel], then we are all in trouble. This is where and why America’s Jews must remain focused on Israel.” (Earl Raab, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, October 30, 1998)
The ADL’s Earl Raab served for thirty-five years as Executive Director of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council and is currently Director of the Perlmutter Institute for Jewish Advocacy at Brandeis University. Raab, like most Jews and all Jewish organizations, promotes multiracialism and Third World immigration in the United States and other majority-White nations, while supporting Jewish racialism (aka Zionism) and a Jews-only immigration policy in Israel.
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* This was an interesting read as it confirms my belief that whites aren’t fully ready to do what they need to do to get out of this mess. Sailer’s a good read but, he’s got it backwards. Whites shouldn’t be going hat in hand to make deals with Jews, we should be unifying, becoming a strong force of our own and letting special interest groups ( Jews being one of them) come to us.
After all we don’t need Jews. Jews need us. And any white man who doesn’t recognize this isn’t worth fighting for anyways.
* Your suggestion is too logical so there’s little chance it’ll be followed. You can tell the posters who genuinely have pride in their culture and race by their responses. They’re the ones who recognize that we Europeans have contributed so much to the world in a far greater proportion than ANY other group. And then you have the weaklings who are full of self doubt and always say ‘ we need this group or we should follow that group’.
Can you picture our grandfathers ever saying that we need the Jews or the Asians to lead us? No. Because they had self belief and it was this self belief and racial pride that built this country. Today we’re being led by those who are the opposite of what built this nation. We were strong believers in self determination and were never afraid to stand on our two feet. Now we’re being told we need the Jews to merely govern our nation. The contrast couldn’t be anymore startling.
* We don’t need Jews to lead; we need them–and all their money/influence–as allies. Further alienating the Jews is a prescription for an even more precipitous collapse of America and the West.
* Jewish power is soft power. Without the consent of the masses, it evaporates. All it would take to throw them out on their ears is a mass changing of consciousness.
* If I were a Jew eavesdropping on this website, and if I were to take the views expressed herein as typical of paleoconservatism, I would view paleoconservatism as strychnine for the Jewish people.
* I don’t have to eavesdrop to know what the Jews think of us. I view their entire mainstream (faux-liberal, conservative, neoconservative, what have you) as strychnine for the European people.
* Strychnine that has been added to the drinking water of every Western nation for 100 years now under the guise of ‘Progressivism,’ thinly masked Bolshevism seeking to break lots of eggs for their utopian omelets.
* The Jews are already filled with distrust and insecurities. Visiting this site will simply reinforce those inherent tendencies. Sadly, some of them (e.g., neocons Jews) have pushed too hard, asked for too much and been unappreciative. Alienation, indeed!
* Jews spend as much time contemplating our motivations and aspirations as ranchers do those of their cattle.
* Sailer’s Grand Bargain will never happen. Typical American Jews have way too much vested in the status quo.
I might be overly optimistic, but it seems that conservative whites who pay attention are more weary of the Defend-Jews-at-all-costs drumbeat. There aren’t enough yet to elect a Pat Buchanan, but more people who supported the Iraq War now realize that the Neocons were a disaster. The GOP and Limbaugh still bow and scrape to the Adelsons, but the way Ron Paul struck a chord with a lot of people–especially younger ones–is a hopeful sign.
A big problem with whites is the hordes who are now on welfare/”disability”, and the ones who work but who think all is well as long as they can watch their favorite thugs in sports. They’re bigger problems than the Fox News watchers, who at least are willing to go against the grain in how they get their news.
The Bolsheviks started small. Maybe the people like us, who realize how far down we’ve sunk from our grandfathers’ ways, can win, especially against the media-numbed conformists out there.
* Jews don’t need “us.” As long as 30-35 percent of white gentiles are AWRs, and the black/Mestizo population continues to swell, they can ignore us. But Jews in the US face two potential problems. First–and as Sailer pointed out–the AWR agenda could very well come back to bite Jews on the ass because Jews can easily be seen as the prime example of so-called “white privilege.” Second, as America becomes more AWR, some white AWRs may have second thoughts. Perhaps all the mob beatings and the flagrantly anti-white machinations of demons like Hutu Holder will knock sense into enough AWR gentiles to tip the electoral balance away from the AWRs. In that scenario, Jews are on the losing side.
* Most Jews don’t have the wherewithal to pick up and move to Israel. And at any rate, an Israel surrounded by hostile, homicidal Muzz probably doesn’t look too attractive to many of them. As an ace in the hole, Israel is a threadbare card.
* I have family connections to Golden Dawn and can state that the reason that the leadership of Golden Dawn has been imprisoned is due to Jews. My wife’s family member was told the European Council of Jews, ADL, B’nai Brith have threatened Greece if they don’t do something about the Golden Dawn. The Jewish groups above partnered with investment banks to put pressure on the Greek government to outlaw a party that many of us respect. Are you to tell me we should partner with such a people?
* I am “pro Jewish.” But I’m also clear-eyed enough to see their flaws and why some people resent them. Would that the site’s Judeophobes possessed some of the same equanimity.
As to you second paragraph, it’s nothing new. The Jews, the Jews. Everything that doesn’t go your way is the fault of the Jews, a teenintsy minority tucked away in Thessaloniki. But these super-human, super-evil beings have the power to bend the poor, dumb, gentile Greek government to their will, to such an extent that they ban a political party. Does that really make sense? Or is it more sensible to simply admit that far too many white people–more in Greece than most white nations–hold political views similar to Jews? God knows the Greeks’ infantile, socialist attitudes to the most minimal of austerity measures strongly suggest that this is the case.
* I’ve spent time in Latin America and there is a strong mistrust of Jews in some nations. Especially, in nations with a tangible Jewish population. Also, let’s not forget that Latin America has had a significant amount of Arab immigration as well. In fact, many of the wealthy in Mexico are of Lebanese ancestry, ie.. Carlos Slim, Salma Hayek etc.
* Unlike the goyim, who were historically farmers, an occupation which took more brawn than brains, Jews made their living with their wits–by closing the sale. Thus, Jews became the world’s greatest tacticians and among its worst strategists. To their great misfortune, Jews never worried about the consequences after they made their money.
The best thing goy nationalists can do is to tell Jews that we refuse to accept their double standard of celebrating the same type of nationalist behavior in Israel that they go to great lengths to deny to the goyim in our own homelands. Consequently, we will support Israel’s right to exist if and only if Jews support our right to exist. If enough of us will work together, we will have Jews over the proverbial barrel.
* Jewish intellectuals practically invented the tactics and strategy behind identity politics. I don’t think the idea ever occurred to them that the Frankenstein monster they created for their own purposes will eventually turn on them. Jewish intellectualism sometimes seems to be a mile deep and an inch wide.
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In the Torah, Jews complain a lot. When they get out of slavery through divine miracles, they start whining that life was better in Egypt because they had leaks.
Reminds me of the old joke: Joseph Stalin gathers before a crowd in Red Square and reads a letter from the Jew Leon Trotsky.
“I was wrong.
And you were right.
I should apologize.”
An old Jewish man said “Comrade Stalin, allow me to read the letter you are not using the right emphasis.”
Stalin hands him the letter and the man reads: “‘YOU were RIGHT? And I was WRONG? I SHOULD apologize?’
“Try rereading the email with the proper emphasis on Jewish sarcasm.”
From New York Daily News: An Arizona woman who had recently gotten breast implants was busted after she got wasted at a Scottsdale bar mitzvah, showed off her new boobs to a group of unimpressed peers — and then got rowdy with a bunch of boys, police said.
Lindsey Radomski, 32, got her peep show started by flashing about five adults Saturday at a party with about 100 guests.
When she was scolded not to expose herself again, she tried exciting a group of “juveniles” by the pool, police said.
The drunken yoga instructor later let seven underage boys, ages 11 to 15, fondle her new jugs in a bedroom, while most of the guests had gone home or fallen asleep.
She allegedly performed oral sex on a 15-year-old boy who was the last to leave, police said.
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Jews don’t look good here. What can we do to distract the goyim from investigating this matter? I think we should. Maybe offer some pay per view boxing matches? New tv shows? Or maybe this is too big an issue for us to discuss. Maybe we should wheel out the Museum of Tolerance. Boxing will work on the dark ones, yes, but for the regular white goyim, I think we need something more. What’s the popular thing with the goyim these days?
It is hard for a Jew like me to know how to appeal to the childlike, animal like mind of the goy, how to distract him. With shiny beads? blankets? what works on them?
Besides, aren’t Roman priests allowed to do this? Why not us?
Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to fill a majority of the seats on the New York City Board of Health before he asks it to repeal highly disputed regulations on a Jewish circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants.
Mr. de Blasio’s administration announced last month it would ask the board to rescind regulations that required parents to sign a consent form before a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions, uses his mouth to suck blood from the cut during the procedure. The policy was supported by predecessor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.
When the board unanimously approved the parental-consent requirement in September 2012, it prompted an outcry from some members of the city’s ultraorthodox community. They denounced it as an infringement on religious freedom.
Mr. de Blasio wants a policy that hinges on community members self-reporting and self-policing. The proposal has won plaudits from Jewish leaders and the community has agreed to ban a mohel who tests positive for herpes from performing oral suction anywhere in the world.
“Along with Health Department education in health care settings, this promises to be a more successful approach,” said Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city’s Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. “Community cooperation will make identification of mohelim who may have transmitted the infection more likely, and help prevent cases of neonatal herpes.”
The de Blasio administration had planned to present the proposal to the board, which is now controlled by Bloomberg-era appointees, in March. But the administration decided to delay the presentation until June, in part because officials wanted to build as persuasive a case as possible, aides said.
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Sholom (Dovber) Levitansky has been added to the Wall of Shame due to his alleged sexual abuse of a number of female minors.
Multiple victims came forward and revealed to JCW that they had been abused by Levitansky. After an investigation by JCW’s investigative team that spanned 18 months and following a review by JCW’s board, it was determined that public exposure was warranted and necessary.
Who helped cover up for the abuser in the following story? According to 27yo Sima Yumash, it was Rabbi Avraham Union, Rabbi Gershon Bess, R. Berish Goldenberg (all of the RCC), R. Yosef Shusterman, and social worker Debbie Fox.
Sima Yarmush is the daughter of Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz, a Chabad shaliach (emissary of the rebbe) at the Living Torah Center at 1130 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levitansky (I don’t think Sholom Dovber is actually a rabbi, I believe he flunked out of yeshiva, but in deference to his prominent Levitansky family, people called him “rabbi”) worked as an assistant at the center. When Sima Yarmush told her father about what Sholom Levitansky had done to her, Rabbi Rabinowitz asked Sholom who admitted what he had done. Rabbi Rabinowitz immediately fired him and told the wider Los Angeles community about the predator.
KosherDelight.com contains this decade out of date information about the Living Torah Center:
Living Torah Center
1130 Wilshire Boulavard
S. Monica, CA 90401 USA
Tel: 310-394-5699
Fax: 310-453-1936
Email:
Website:
Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz, Director
Rabbi Sholom Levitansky, Associate Director
Apparently, Sima was not the only girl that Sholom Levitansky abused. After he was fired from working in Santa Monica, Sholom Dovbear Levitansky went to work in a rabbinic capacity in Florida, then Palm Springs before ending up in Sherman Oaks.
Here are some highlights from Sima Yarmush’s talk about her childhood in the Santa Monica Chabad community of the Living Torah Center and how Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levitansky, the son of Rabbi Levitansky of the Chabad in Simcha Monica at 1428 17th St
Santa Monica, CA, groomed her and then abused her, starting at age 14 and ending when she was 17 and able to get away:
My parents [Chabad shluchim aka emissaries] were told about a social worker [Debbie Fox] who at the time was working at Aleinu Family Services at the Jewish Federation building on Wilshire Blvd. I met with the social worker Debbie and told her everything. She promised me and my parents that she would help us and she would get four rabbis from the halachic [Jewish law] advisory board involved. Four Los Angeles rabbis were assigned to my case. Rabbi Yosef Shusterman of Chabad of North Beverly Hills, Rabbi Berish Goldenberg of Toras Emes, rabbis Gershon Bess and Avrohom Union of the RCC. A hearing was scheduled.
You might be wondering why I didn’t go to the police and press charges. I didn’t go for many reasons. I’ll share a few. I was 18, unmarried, and terrified of the public finding out I was sexually abused. The idea of fighting a legal battle with a man who repulsed me was terrifying. For some reason, I had this very strong… faith that these prestigious Los Angeles rabbis would certainly help me notify the public about the dangerous man. Wrong.
The meeting with the rabbis was very emotional for me. It was the first time I was openly talking about the sexual abuse I had endured. The social worker, Debbie, and I sat down with the rabbis. There was a mehitza between us and the rabbis… I told them everything…
The rabbis then told my family that everything will be taken care of and that we should not mix in. That we should leave all matters of the story of my abuse to them. They will take care of everything.
To make a long story short, my family got absolutely no backing nor support to show our community that the allegations were true. I was not offered any help or support. Until this day, not one of those rabbis has called me to ask me how I am doing. They simply sent me off that night with random blessings that I should heal and be well…
At one point after the meeting, being that we were shluchim, my parents had a private meeting with the Chabad rabbi who was at the meeting [R. Yosef Shusterman]. We had this huge community that was about to fall apart. He told my parents that they had absolutely no moral, legal, ethical or halachic reason to say anything about the abuse to anybody. He also told my parents numerous times to tell our community that this rabbi would be leaving for personal reasons and not to disclose the real reason.
I later learned that my abuser was sent to therapy by the rabbis, and that one rabbi in particular [R. Berish Goldenberg] took him under his wing to guide him. My abuser told everybody he is resigning from his position at our shul and went on to live in a different community, becoming a serious danger to the people around him there. The community that he moved to was not informed and had no idea about any of this. The rabbis who knew about the abuse did not warn the community…
My parents began telling my beloved shul members that my abuser was indeed fired and had to go because serious allegations of sexual abuse had come to their attention. They told everyone the truth — that the rabbi molested girls. Yes, we found out it was not only me.
My family got a whole variety of reactions from my community. Some families didn’t believe my parents. Some families blamed my parents… Some families boycotted our shul. Some families even went to the California Chabad headquarters to try to get my parents fired as Chabad shluchim [emissaries].
Meanwhile, as soon as my molester’s family heard that my parents were telling people that their son was fired from our shul because serious allegations of child sexual abuse had come to their attention, they called my parents liars.
One of the other shluchos called my mother to tell her that she is no longer welcome to bring other women to the only women’s mikveh in Santa Monica.
It was my parents who were warning others about a sexual predator who people were getting upset at…
I don’t cry because I was sexually abused. I cry because the people from my childhood who I cherished the most were not there to support me. I cry because important rabbis did not support me. I cry because I stood up for the truth and all I received in return, for the most part, was ambiguity and silence. So almost ten years have passed since I came forward to the rabbis, and I refuse to remain silent any longer.
After my abuser moved to another city, he opened up an organization and a website, offering a whole variety of rabbinic services including tutoring, counseling, Shabbat dinners, holiday parties, which provided him with access to children and teens. He recreated the perfect environment for himself to continue [molesting].
Meyer Seewald called my abuser asking him about the allegations. Meyer asked him if he ever apologized to any of his victims. The conversation was short. He denied everything. My abuser called [R. Berish Goldenberg], the one who took him under his wing, who in turn called Meyer, perturbed at the possibility of JCW exposing my abuser. For a short while, my abuser’s website was down and when it was back up again, it was updated with the word ‘Adult’ strewn all over the place.
Sholom Levitansky’s family’s Santa Monica Chabad (1428 17th) was the site of many child molestations. An older kid would recruit younger vulnerable kids into playing what he called “the privacy game.”
This older kid was never charged with any crime and he’s now an adult and still at large in the Los Angeles Jewish community (though not a rabbi and not in any position of authority).
A. asks: “Why is Debbie Fox still allowed to practice as a social worker? She’s a mandated reporter.”
Comment: “Because the victim is above 18. Legally, the adult is on her own. A mandated reporter is for children. There is nothing anyone can do if the victims themselves don’t come forward. The social worker has her hands tied in the back.”
Here is a common reaction I hear around Orthodox Los Angeles: “So angry that after so many years, the same people continue to victimize people in the community they allegedly lead.”
In the past, I often burned out covering these rabbinic sex abuse stories.
A Jew tells me: “I completely understand. I hate to think about the bad guys anymore at this point. I spoke with someone very involved in this case, though. And I basically realized that this issue – sexual abuse of children – is the tipping point. Screwing over righteous (would be) converts and agunot is upsetting, but has never been quite enough to get people to revolt. This, though, this is bad. It’s time for some change, in my opinion. Or as Meyer Seewald so eloquently pointed out, it is appalling that people here have shown more outrage at the prospect that they were given some questionable / not kosher meat (allusion to Doheny Meats) than that their own children are being molested and abused.”
A Youtube comment:
I was present at this event but just re-watched it here. What an incredibly intelligent, articulate, communicative and strong young woman Sema is.
Question: what’s the statute of limitations on pressing charges against the perpetrator and holding Chabad of Southern California–who obliterated your parents sole vocation, life’s purpose and source of income–not to mention turning the other cheek & destroying lives; and to Toras Emes whose head mentored, enabled and reassigned the abuser to a mere 18 miles away to an unsuspecting Sherman Oaks public, accountable?
The Catholic Church sold a LOT of property to pay for reparations to the children its priests sexually abused. Isn’t it time Cunin’s SoCalChabad Empire does same? There’s a Jewish boys school on 3rd street West of LaBrea that used to belong to the Catholic Church. It’s one of the properties they sold to free up cash for reparations. Every time I drive past it I think, “this Cheder made possible by the Catholic Diocese; this is the Cheder that Catholic Abuse Built”.
Another Youtube comment: “I have no words to describe my feelings after watching this lady’s amazing story, I am just so heartbroken that she was made to suffer so much. And I am angered. I am even more angered at the rabbis who chose not to do anything but sweep this under the rug. I really wish the molester Sholom Dovber Levitansky answer for what he has done. A a big apology from the community is owed to this courageous woman. I am shocked that rabbis who are involved in and head the RCC, regarded with an obligatory prestige in their Kashrus certification and which seems to have a monopoly on Gerus in LA was able to just sit by and do nothing upon hearing the name of the accuser.”
Melanie posts to Youtube: “I feel such pain and anguish listening to Sima, your courage is a blessing. Boruch Hashem you have a wonderful supporting family who have stood up for you. The Rabbis who were involved should be totally ashamed, they should resign or be fired from their positions as they have NO credibility or moral ethics. People who shamed your parents or shunned any of you should hold their heads in shame. I wish I had your courage to tell my story that I have lived with for over a decade. May Hashem Bless you your family and all who have supported you.”
Andrew posts to Youtube: “I am very moved and grateful to Sima for her determination to prevent further abuse. It is, unfortunately, very typical of our communities that victims and whistle-blowers are punished. Although the conduct of this ‘beis-din’ is reprehensible, it is unfortunately not surprising. Sima is blessed that her family supports her. There are many other victims who are shunned by their families. It also sounds like her family and their Chabad House will be ok. I suggest it would be worthwhile for criminal charges to be pressed against the perpetrator. I think that would make it less likely for him to ever be in a position to have access to more potential victims. There is certainly a mitzva to report him to the authorities, as the prohibition of mesira does not apply here in any manner.”
Chayale Mendy posts to FB: “Silence only creates a thicker smokescreen for abusers to find new victims and to evade the consequences for their crimes. This woman is a true hero. May all the bent and broken be lifted upright and be placed among the leaders of our nation.”
Chaya Esther Ort posts to FB: “I am so impressed and moved by the courage, bravery, and honesty of this beautiful young woman. I am likewise impressed by the successful efforts of JWC in supporting and encouraging victims of sexual abuse, and providing a forum for them to share their experiences. I am utterly mystified that rabbis, community leaders, friends and neighbors would protect and support perpetrators of sexual abuse. Anyone complicit in covering up abuse, enabling abusers to escape being exposed or moving to other communities, intimidating and ostracizing people who report abuse is as bad as or worse than the actual abuser, since it can be argued that the abuser is sick. May Hashem bless Ms Yarmush, and all the victims of sexual and physical abuse with safety from harm, and healing from trauma. And thank you to Meyer Seewald and JWC for bringing this issue out into the open.”
Miriam Hendeles posts to FB: “Unbelievable. What a brave and courageous woman. So sad that she suffered so much. She has such presence in the way she delivered her message. Clear. Direct. So important. Wow.”
A post to Youtube:
I see what she means. The abuser’s picture or name does not appear on his website, he added the word adult to all of the services said to be offered, and only uses his first name in a reference to himself (“Ask the Rabbi”) http://jewishhospitality.org/home.html
G-d bless this woman and give her and her family health, long life and all kinds of brachos and protection. She looks like she indeed has inherited her grandmother’s DNA including the courage and strength.
Benny Forer posts: “Thank you for your amazing courage and bravery. Shame on those that committed the crime, covered up the crime, and passively encouraged crime. Those Rabbis should be deeply ashamed of their actions.”
Here is video from Sunday night’s Jewish Community Watch event.
Heidi posts:
I am so impressed and moved by the courage, bravery, and honesty of this beautiful young woman. I am likewise impressed by the successful efforts of JWC in supporting and encouraging victims of sexual abuse, and providing a forum for them to share their experiences. I am utterly mystified that rabbis, community leaders, friends and neighbors would protect and support perpetrators of sexual abuse. Anyone complicit in covering up abuse, enabling abusers to escape being exposed or moving to other communities, intimidating and ostracizing people who report abuse is as bad as or worse than the actual abuser, since it can be argued that the abuser is sick.
After highlighting so effectively the importance of outing abusers, it was surprising that Ms Yarmush did not mention the name of her abuser, or his website. If anyone knows of any rationale for failing to mention these things, i would be interested in hearing it.
May Hashem bless Ms Yarmush, and all the victims of sexual and physical abuse with safety from harm, and healing from trauma. And thank you to Meyer Seewald and JWC for bringing this issue out into the open.
NHMusic posts to Youtube:
What an amazing & courageous woman!
It is extremely sad & scary how many survivors have been and are currently being shunned by those they have turned to for support/help – as well as those who have had their experiences ignored/belittled.
As someone who grew up & currently live in a religious community in NJ it scares me how sexual abuse is ignored/ barely acknowledged as something that occurs on a daily basis -let alone exists. I can only hope that the JCW-JCW events makes its way down to NJ to raise awareness and tell survivors the importance of coming forward and telling their stories as well as, not to be ashamed for they are the true heroes/heroines.
Shlomo posts: “Unfortunately I can relate to every word you are saying. Your pain, your feelings of abandonment by the “Rabbis” and friends you grew up with, your hesitation to come out in public for many reasons you mention and more. The incredible indifference of our “Rabbis” is inexplicable or defensible at any level. Do not stop now or ever. You are courageous beyond belief. You must continue. This is just a beginning for you. Chazak Chazak Venischazaik. And thank G-d for the courageous people behind this organization.”
The Journal is not printing the rabbi’s name because he has not been charged with these allegations in court, but among the Los Angeles audience during Seewald’s recent visit, the rabbi’s name was well known — so it goes in the close-knit Los Angeles Orthodox community.
Sima Yarmush, now 27, gave her own testimony to the community at the event, accusing this rabbi of numerous acts of molestation. She was 14 at the time.
Yarmush began by telling her story about growing up in Chabad, her bubbe (an Auschwitz survivor), her stifling shyness as a little girl and then about that aforementioned rabbi — how he took her under his wing, charming her and the whole community before, she alleged, abusing her sexually.
When she was 18, after coming home from a year in Israel to attend seminary, she said she decided to speak out and take action. Yarmush was assigned four rabbis who conducted a beit din (rabbinical court) and, for the first time in her life, she recounted the events in explicit detail; the rabbis, separated by a mechitzah, listened to her story with clasped hands. Finally, one of the rabbis asked her, “Who did this to you?”
That incriminating question with only one answer.
Finally, she thought to herself, after four years, the moment has come. And as she opened her mouth to answer the question, a Chabad rabbi interjected, “Let’s hold off on saying the name.” Furious and voiceless — yet again — Yarmush said she disobeyed the rabbi and spoke up.
“They simply sent me off that night,” she recalled. Her alleged molester got off scot-free, was sent to therapy and relocated to a nearby Chabad community in the Los Angeles area, she said…
Although JCW has not been sued for libel or defamation, it isn’t without flaw. In August 2012, Seewald immediately responded to an allegation made by an autistic boy, who falsely accused a Crown Heights special education teacher of sexual abuse. As a result of his entry into the JCW database, the man lost his job and was publicly shunned — before Seewald repealed the entry. But by then, the damage had been done and JCW’s integrity was compromised.
How did this event damage JCW’s integrity? How does the Jewish Journal know that the allegation was false? The Jewish Journal sides with the powers that be.
As for not naming Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levitansky because he has not been charged in court, the Jewish Journal has no problem publishing all sorts of negative things about people who are not charged in court. One example, Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz in 2008.
Sholom Dovbear Levitansky is the son of the pioneering Chabad shalich Avraham Levitansky, who died in May of 2007:
Jewish Journal: Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, one of Chabad’s first West Coast shlichim, or emissaries, died in his home on May 27, following a long, undisclosed illness. He was 67.
Levitansky headed Santa Monica’s Chabad for 23 years. He was the first shliach brought to the West Coast in the mid-1960s by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin. Cunin, the director of Chabad on the West Coast, was the first person the Lubavitcher Rebbe selected to appoint other emissaries.
Levitansky was originally brought to California to help launch Chabad’s Talmud Torah. He also helped launch Chabad’s first Gan Israel day camp and helped establish a program to help children in public school receive a Jewish education.
In 1970, when Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson asked for 70 new Chabad centers to be built for his birthday, Cunin committed to opening 12. He appointed Levitansky to open one in Santa Monica, or “Simcha Monica,” using the Hebrew word for happiness instead of the Spanish word for saint.
“Rabbi Avraham Levitansky was a dear, personal friend of mine for more than 50 years. He was my schoolmate, my comrade in arms, and more than anything else, he was a real brother to me,” Rabbi Cunin wrote in a statement to The Journal.
Levitansky’s synagogue was the first Chabad in Santa Monica and he later brought in Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz to help. Fifteen years ago Rabinowitz opened another center, The Living Torah Center, which now operates a pre-school.
Rav Adlerstein said that about a decade ago in Fairfax, an Orthodox woman repeatedly left and returned to her abusive non-observant husband. Finally, he murdered her.
Rav Adlerstein did not mention any names or further details, but I will.
Six years ago, the Orthodox Counseling Program (OCP) of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles began a hot line to help women such as Ilana. But at the time, OCP’s Dr. Michael Held staunchly refused to talk about the hot line. “If something is difficult to accept and you splash it all over the front page,” he said, “people will clam up, and you’ll find yourself farther away from the people you want to help.”
Instead, Held and his staff quietly worked behind the scenes, meeting with many of the more than 100 practicing Orthodox rabbis in Los Angeles, and their efforts have paid off.
…What opened the community’s eyes, sources say, was the 1993 murder of Rita Parizer, 36, an Orthodox wife and motherwhose strangled body was found wrapped in a sleeping bag in a garageowned by her husband, Shalom, at 325 N. Orange Grove Ave. Rita previously had reported a marital rape but refused to press charges, LAPD Det. David Lambkin said. In August 1994, her husband was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to lifein prison.
“More than anything, the Parizer case brokethrough the community’s denial,” said Shirley Lebovics, a licensed clinical social worker who is observant and a domestic-violence expert. “It made rabbis stop and say, ‘This can happen. This is frightening. This is real.’”
…Rabbi Aron Tendler of Shaarey Zedek, however, said, “Abuse has nothing to do with one’s moral upbringing, but with the [generational] cycle of violence.” Tendler speaks about the phenomenon in a new videotape produced for the Jewish community by the National Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence.
“When I counsel couples, I tell the woman, in front of her intended husband, that if he ever raises a hand to her, she should pick herself up and leave until the problem is resolved,” Tendler said. “And if a woman is unsafe, it is incumbent upon every rabbi to pull out all the stops, including saying from the bimah that a man is not welcome in the community, because he abuses his wife.”
Rita Parizer went for help to the Orthodox Hotline and was seen by Dr. Michael Held and Mrs. Shirley Lebovic who did not report to the authorities the abuse Rita suffered at her husband’s hands.
Dr. Held worked as a psychologist at YULA. Later he was hired by Shirley’s husband as the director of a home for orthodox children with developmental problems called Etta Israel. As for Shirley Lebovic, she’s in social work.
Steve Sailer writes: Bibi, however, earned his fourth term, crushing the leftist coalition 67-39 among the 106 Jewish seats. Granted, the 14 seats won by Arab parties made the election look closer on paper. But Israel has an unwritten rule that it would be racial treason for a Jewish coalition to form a governing majority using Arabs, so Arab voters don’t really count in determining who gets to be prime minister.
While America’s immigration policies make this country more leftist, Israel’s demographic policies, such as inviting in French Jews who feel threatened by Muslim immigrants in Paris, and banning non-Jewish immigration (other than spouses), means that the Jewish electorate is growing steadily more rightist.
As Israel comes ever more out of the closet as the successful right wing nationalist state that it is, a PR problem is created for American Democrats. The success of pacesetting at California campuses by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestiture and Sanctions movement would suggest this. The student candidates who make up the next generation of Democratic politicians tend to see Israel as the quintessence of that white privilege that young people are taught to hate.
Beyond Israel, American Jews are starting to worry that the anti-white, anti-privilege rhetoric they’ve done so much to inculcate among today’s youth will end up boomeranging against the most privileged white American ethnic groups: themselves.
We’ve been hearing from Democrats nonstop since 2012 about the hideousness of White Privilege. Yet, you can’t get much whiter than Hillary or more privileged than being a former First Lady. But the point, Democratic publicists insist, is that she’s a woman, and it’s the turn of women, even a white woman like, say, Hillary. By making the 2016 election all about the not very controversial issue of America electing a woman President, the Democrats hope to kick these divisive demographic cans down the road for eight years.
As you may have noticed, the Democrats, despite their vaunted vibrant diversity, don’t really have a Plan B. They just hope to nominate the old, bland white person and hope she doesn’t fall down and bang her head again (as she did in 2012, putting her out of action for close to six months). If Hillary isn’t up to scratch, however, the Party of the Fringes could attain its destiny and go full circular firing squad on itself as early as next winter.
A key for Democrats is hanging on to the smallest but most influential ethnic constituency: Jews. It’s widely believed (although not often talked about) that Jews contribute about three-fifths of the Democrats’ campaign funds and about one-quarter of the Republicans’ money.
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Why wouldn’t an employer want to know if a potential employee is a criminal? Who’s to say this information is irrelevant?
An IQ test is an excellent proxy for likelihood to engage in criminalbehavior. Higher IQ people are more likely to see the consequences of their actions and they are more likely to feel empathy for others (requires abstract thought) and to see the future more clearly. Unfortunately, employers cannot give IQ tests to potential employees.
The Atlantic: “Too many applicants, particularly people of color, are being denied jobs based on background checks that are irrelevant or even inaccurate.”
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Chaim Amalek: “You cannot help but respect them for this.”
REPORT: Amman, Jordan – A group of Israeli Hassidim are being accused of carrying out a “ritual Talmudic dance” on Tuesday morning while waiting to board their plane in Queen Alia International Airport in Amman.
What was in fact a traditional Jewish circle dance, accompanied by guitar music and Hebrew singing, has morphed into a social media controversy in Jordan, and was considered so offensive to Jordanians that it had to be denounced in the Jordanian parliament.
In the viral video, a group of eight men, identifiable as Breslev Hassidim by their attire, are singing a Hebrew song that celebrates marriage. However, some Jordanian media has misread the dance as a “ritual Talmudic dance” meant as a provocation.
One Jordanian tweeter, who according to his Twitter profile is a doctor in the Health Ministry, wrote that: “He who was sitting in the airport and saw the dance and wasn’t provoked is a pig and more piglike then the Jews themselves.”
The editor- in-chief of the Hamas media outlet Siraj Media tweeted that the “airport dance”—the hashtag being used on social media in Arabic—“isn’t the problem, but rather the acceptance of Israel as a reality” is the issue.
One woman jokingly wrote “A popular call to dance the Dabkeh at OIAA.” (Dabkeh is a traditional Middle Eastern circle.)
On Tuesday, according to The Jordanian Times, Jordanian MP’s discussed the “ritual dance” video during a Lower House session. MPs Yihya Saud, Bassam Btoush and Tarek Khoury reportedly criticized Amman’s “inaction” over the “provocative” dance performed by “Zionist Israelis” at the airport. The MPs argued that Jordanians would never be allowed to do such an act in Israel.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
