February 3, 2015 Jews in Bed Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Jews in Bed

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

A hot female Jewish friend of mine who’s been around says: “Your FB friend who says Asian women are willing to fuck Jewish men and pretend it was good. She’s off her rocker. I’ve had a good amount of sex with a fair number of partners, and Jewish men are by far the best in bed I’ve encountered.”

Jews are more at peace with the natural passions for sex, love, fame, money, honor, etc. Jewish women dent the bed. They have fewer hang-ups than shiksas, they are more experimental and wild. Jews seem to be more open to kink and to role playing.

Female friend: “Some of the guys I have been with were not so popular when they were younger, so they may have been naturally more focused on trying to please/win the girl than the popular conventionally handsome guy.”

“Technique for sure. The biggest difference was my ex (the man was beautiful and his body was a work of art, but the sex was bland and boring) and Yaakov (ugly troll but the best sex I’ve ever had). It may also have something to do with wit/intelligence–maybe it’s higher in Jewish men so that becomes part of it. There’s more playfulness/talk/charm with Jewish guys in bed.”

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Israel Shows The Way Forward

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Anthropologist Peter Frost writes:

Westernization seemed to be the secret to success. In the 19th century, Ashkenazi Jews embraced it with the fervor of the newly converted, using Yiddishkeit as a vehicle to spread the ideals of the Enlightenment—progress, freedom, and personal autonomy. The Japanese converted during the Meiji Restoration, turned away during the 1930s, and finished the job under American tutelage. In Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution began as an effort of accelerated Westernization, which later reversed course under the pressures of autarky and fear of the West. In the 1990s, with the end of communism, the West once more became the model to be followed.

Today, non-Orthodox American Jews have a fertility rate of only 1.3 children per woman. Similar baby busts have played out elsewhere, especially where collectivism has rapidly given way to individualism: Japan, Russia, Spain, Germany, Italy … Modern Western culture is toxic for family formation in most societies, but its effects seem to be more toxic in some than in others.

Sad but inevitable, you say? Only if you think Western modernity is inevitable. In recent years, both Israel and Russia have dramatically reversed their fertility declines, while continuing to be modern societies (Goldman, 2013; Karlin, 2014). Cash inducements have been one factor. But the really key changes lie in the realm of culture and ideology, particularly in the effort to strike a new balance between the individual and the collectivity. And by the collectivity, I don’t mean the artificial structures of State, ideology, and corporate loyalty. I mean the natural ones of family, kith and kin, and ethny. This will be the basis for postmodern traditionalism, including that part of the world where Western modernity began…

Russia and Israel are large enough to sustain their own cultures, but this is not the case with the Parsis. Unless they want to be like the Amish or the Hassidic Jews, by blocking out modern Western culture as much as possible, they will have to find some other way.

I would argue that it’s critical for southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece), since they border other countries where fertility is much higher. All three countries are at risk of rapid population change. One could argue that it’s also critical for American Jews. Over the next decade, we’ll see fewer and fewer Jewish Americans in public life, entertainment, and academia.

The only religious groups with above-replacement fertility are those that can block out modern Western culture. This is the case with the Amish, the Hutterites, and various Orthodox Jewish sects. It’s also the case with the Mormons, who have been able to create a viable alternative subculture. But religion, in itself, is not a relevant factor.

COMMENTS:

* We already have a more elegant explanation for fertility declines that fits the data more closely: Caldwell’s cost of kids model. Caldwell points out that all fertility declines have coincided with the onset of mass education, which massively raises the cost of kids to the parent. Before it, wealth flows from kids to parents–kids do not quite deliver a market-beating return but it’s not much worse. Combined with the other reasons to have kids families might aim for 7 or 8 or 10. Post education wealth flows the other way.

This ‘cost of kids’ model also fits nicely with loads of other evidence we have. For example when kibbutz broke up, Israelis from them had on average substantially fewer kids because the cost of raising them was higher. Another example is cheap immigrant labour, which by lowerng the cost of childcare raises native fertility.

* The problem of low and sub-replacement fertility is hardly just a NW Euro one. Indeed, every high-IQ group of people on Earth (collectively) have sub-replacement fertility (by collectively, I mean certain subsets within some groups, like Mormons and Amish in the U.S. or Orthodox Jews in Israel have much higher fertility rates).

But, the problem is actually least acute in NW Europe. Southern and Eastern Europeans (and East Asians) have significantly lower fertility rates.

Sub-replacement fertility, in and of itself, is hardly a problem for immediate concern for most groups. The Parsis stand alone as a group for which sub-replacement fertility is a matter of critical importance. The NW Euro countries, with fertility rates only barely below replacement, have plenty of time to address the issue in one manner or another. The East Asian nations – being so crowded – might stand to gain in the long run from a period of population decline. And Eastern Europe demonstrates the conclusion of the process: rebounding fertility both as natural selection works its magic and as effective cost of living declines.

The occurrence of sub-replacement fertility is perhaps an example of adaptations misfiring in a new environment. People act as if there was a quantity-quality trade off when in fact there is none in today’s world.

* Religious peoples have above replacement level fertility, non-religious have below replacement level fertility. There is something about a commitment to a supernatural order that encourages fertility, while a commitment to secularism discourages same. “Praise God from Whom all blessings flow” and children are such a blessing.

* Non-Orthodox Jewish-Americans’ intermarriage rate is reducing their population far faster than their low fertility rate.
– 1.3 children per woman reduces the next generation to 62% of the size of the last generation (1.3 / 2.1 replacement rate = 62%).
– Their 71% intermarriage rate reduces the next generation to 29% of the size of the last generation.

Multiplied together, the next generation of non-Orthodox Jewish-Americans should be expected to be 18% the size of the last generation (.62 * .29 = .18).

* Some of the most famous Jews today:

Jon Stewart: Married a Catholic.
Kevin Rose: Married a Christian.
Mark Cuban: Married a Christian.
Mark Zuckerberg: Married an Asian.
Larry Page: Half-Jewish, married a Christian.
Dustin Moskovitz: Married a Turk.
Larry Ellison: Married a Christian.
Steve Ballmer: Half-Jewish, married a Christian.
Ben Horowitz: Married an African-American.
Steven Spielberg: Married a Kate Capshaw.
Jared Kushner: Married Ivanka Trump.
Wesley Clark: Half-Jewish.
Neil Gaiman: Married a Christian
David Cameron: 3/32 Jewish.
Boris Johnson: 1/8 Jewish.

Jennifer Connelly: Half-Jewish, married Paul Bettany.
Gwenyth Paltrow: Half-Jewish, married Chris Martin.
Natalie Portman: Married Benjamin Millepied.
Rachel Weisz: Married Daniel Craig.
Scarlett Johansson: Half-Jewish, married Ryan Reynolds, then Romain Dauriac.
Mila Kunis: Married Ashton Kutcher.
Rachel Bilson: Half-Jewish, has a kid with Hayden Christensen.
Dianna Agron: Half-Jewish.
Allison Brie: Half-Jewish.
Winona Ryder: Half-Jewish.
Yasmine Bleeth: Half-Jewish.
Lily Collins: 1/8 Jewish.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: 37.5% Jewish.
Helena Bonham Carter: 37.5% Jewish.
Alicia Silverstone: 1/2 Jewish.
Olivia Newton-John: 37.5% Jewish.
Jessica Biel: 1/8 Jewish.
Olivia Wilde: Distant Jewish.
Neve Campbell: Distant Jewish.
Jessica Alba: Distant Jewish.

Harrison Ford: Half-Jewish, married Calista Flockhart.
Armie Hammer: 1/2 Jewish, married a Christian.
Daniel Day-Lewis: Half-Jewish, married a half-Jew-raised-Christian, neither are religious.
Paul Newman: Half-Jewish, married a Christian.
Sacha Baron Cohen: Married Isla Fisher.
Liev Schreiber: Half-Jewish, married Naomi Watts.
Michael Douglas: Half-Jewish, married Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Half-Jewish.
Chris Pine: 1/4 Jewish.
Noah Wyle: 1/2 Jewish.
Ed Skrein (Game of Thrones): 1/2 Jewish.
Adam Levine: 3/4 Jewish, married Behati Prinsloo.
Sylvester Stallone: 1/4 Jewish.
Daniel Radcliffe: 1/2 Jewish.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar: 1/4 Jewish.
River Phoenix: 1/2 Jewish.
Sean Austin: 1/2 Jewish.
Ansel Elgort: 1/2 Jewish.
Lewis C.K.: 1/8 Jewish.
Topher Grace: 1/8 Jewish.
Will Wheaton: 1/8 Jewish.
Cary Elwes: 1/8 Jewish.
Robert Downey Jr: 1/8 Jewish.
Lars Ulrich: 1/4 Jewish.
Yul Brynner: 1/4 Jewish.
David Beckham: 1/4 Jewish by ancestry, 1/2 Jewish by identity.
Tom Hanks’ children: 1/8 Jewish.

Sources: ethnicelebs.com/tag/jewish/

Even if the Jewish intermarriage rate were lower for some reason, there’s a lot of evidence that it’s one of the largest trends in the Jewish-American population.

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The Jewish Laws Of Proper Speech

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m listening to some classes on lashon hara (forbidden speech according to Torah) on YUTorah.org and I am disappointed by how ignorant they are.

YUTorah.org presents Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman as an expert in this topic.

Fourteen minutes into one speech, he says: “The Chofetz Chaim is the classic authority on this topic.”

Anyone who tells you that the Chofetz Chaim is the classic authority on lashon hara is foolish and you should not listen to him on anything related to Torah.

No Orthodox rabbi I’ve consulted is aware of any Beit Din that has punished a journalist for publishing something true (or punishing anyone who has said something true privately or publicly).

The Chofetz Chaim is an 1873 book by Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan that assembles stories on proper speech throughout the Jewish tradition and turns them into laws. In other words, the rabbi takes homilies and turns them into laws. He takes aggadata (legends) and turns it into halacha (laws). This is not how Jewish law works. It’s how flowery sermons work because you’re seeking to manipulate the emotions of the masses.

When the Chofetz Chaim book came out, leading rabbis made fun of it, but today it is treated in Orthodox life by the ignorant as the classical Jewish guide to proper speech.

Here is how the Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan is described by his son: “Father had no personal friendships with anyone all the days of his life.”

Orthodox rabbi and historian Dr. Marc B. Shapiro said in a 2008 lecture for Torah in Motion on “The Lives of the Gedolim”:

“If you read my blogs, you’ll see that I am a relentless exposer of the fraudulence not just in the chareidi world but in the Modern Orthodox
world. It all needs to be exposed. But that doesn’t mean that every simple person needs to know… As Rav Kook says, if they come into our world and try to affect us with their fraudulent stories, it needs to be exposed. But if they want to live by these bubbemeisers (old wives tales), that’s a way of life. I’m like Rabbi Slifkin in this regard. Only if it threatens to interfere in the wider community.
“It’s hard to know what lashon hara
(gossip) is. You don’t really know what lashon hara is. I have read many letters of gedolim and they are full of negative comments about other rabbis, which you would say is lashon hara. As anyone knows, they badmouth them all the time. If you asked the rav, he would say it is notlashon hara. The Torah says you have to expose chanafim (hypocrites, flatterers).
(“The admonition to expose hypocrites is stated in Yoma 86b where it is derived from [the legal category of] Chillul HaShem,” emails Marc in reply to my question.)
“We are supposed to expose hypocrisy. I would say that if you asked all these rabbonim who say terrible things about other ones and were great talmidei chachamim, if you asked them, they would say it is not lashon hara, but he’s a fraud and I have to expose him. It could be that he’s not a fraud and that it’s just a personal dispute.
“I don’t think it’s lashon hara to talk about a dispute that the whole world knew about and it was in all the newspapers… If a certain rav did a bad thing. There’s a rav, not a gadol of the first calibre but of the second calibre, but he had a child out of wedlock when he was about 17 and in yeshiva. About 20 years ago, one of the Israeli newspapers exposed him and published the birth certificate. I think that’s a terrible breach of privacy. He made a mistake when he was young. I don’t think it’s anyone’s business. I would never expose something like that. If I knew about it, I would probably choose not to write about him because how could you write about him and not talk about it?
“If there was a case like this where he abandoned the girl and wanted nothing to do with them and then he became a big scholar, a Talmud Chacham, a posek, I don’t think that’s lashon hara. This would be an example of exposing the hypocrites.”
“I try to balance Jewish values with secular values. As a secular historian, you go into a grave and dig up the body if you need to. They dug up Zachary Taylor’s body to see if he was poisoned. I would have no problem as a secular historian if I was writing about a figure like Einstein, but among gedolim, I do not do that. I can honestly say that I’ve never had to make that choice with Rabbi Yaakov Jechiel Weinberg. I would rather not write about somebody than have to cover something like that up… Certain great rabbinic figures, I would treat differently than other figures. If that is not in correspondence with historical [analysis], what are they going to do? Take my tenure away? Life is not only about historical craft.”

According to Wikipedia: “Yisrael Meir (Kagan) Poupko (Dziatłava, 1838 – Radun’, 1933), known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi of the Musar movement, a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life. His surname, Poupko, is not widely known.”

The rabbi’s most famous book is known as the Chofetz Chaim (Desiring Life) and it is against gossip. Like many leading rabbis, Yisrael Meir became known by the name of his leading publication.

In his first lecture on R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: The Mishna Brura (the most influential commentary today on daily Jewish law for Ashkenazi Jews compiled by the Chofetz Chaim) only became canonical in the last 30 years.

R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk attacked the Chofetz Chaim at a rabbinic meeting in 1910. R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk said the meeting was only for congregational rabbis.

Various rabbis made fun of the book Chofetz Chaim. The Chazon Ish is said to have made fun of the Chofetz Chaim book on gossip. “Even if these stories are not accurate, that they are told in the yeshiva world shows that this is an ethos that great rabbis shared.”

Chazon Ish said the Chofetz Chaim did not know what he was talking about in this book.

According to his critics, the Chofetz Chaim created halacha (Jewish law) out of mussar (ethical exhortations, frequently extreme). That he took aggadic (stories) things and turned them into halacha. That he took ethical statements and turned them into Jewish law.

“I don’t know today if anyone would have the courage to say something like that [to make these criticisms of the Chofetz Chaim book].”

Marc Shapiro corrects my flawed early version of this blog post: “I was asked what the Chazon Ish thought of the book called Chofetz Chaim, which is a book about Lashon Hara. That is what the Chazon Ish is said not to have liked, not the person known as the Chofetz Chaim. The Chazon Ish thought the world of the person the Chofetz Chaim, and also his book Mishneh Berurah. But he wasn’t such a fan of the BOOK Chofetz Chaim.”

According to the Chofetz Chaim, no gossip is permitted, even between husband and wife. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach thought differently.

Today, the Chofetz Chaim is the last word in these matters and that Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach would have the temerity to tell yeshiva students that they don’t have to listen to the Chofetz Chaim, that’s a bit difficult in the yeshiva world today and so they removed it [from a haredi publication of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach].

According to Rabbi Jacob Emden, you could say Lashon Hara (gossip) about anyone who was your enemy. I guess this is a justification for all the Lashon Hara he tells in his own books.

There are all sorts of heterim (permissions) for Lashon Hara. The Meiri says that if you say it publicly, it is not Lashon Hara. There are all sorts of views out there by great rabbis. Then the Chofetz Chaim codified Judaism’s teachings on gossip and made it appear as though Judaism had a universal prohibition on speaking ill of others.

If you read the writings of the great rabbis, almost all of these gadolim violate the laws of the Chofetz Chaim (Desiring Life). Of course, these great rabbis do not think that they are saying Lashon Hara. They believe the target of their enmity deserves it.

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How Do You Raise Your National IQ?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Anatoly Karlin writes: There are several ways to influence national mean IQ levels. One is to improve nutrition and education, but vitally important though they are, they suffer from diminishing returns as populations bump up against their genetic ceilings. Another is to promote eugenic policies, or at least policies to mitigate the dysgenic trends that are typical of modern developed societies, but they tend to be ethically questionable and politically unfeasible. The third major lever is the immigration system, but how can we assess whether it’s doing its job of only letting in the people who would be a net benefit to the host country?

…One thing that immediately leaps out from above is that just as US scores leap upwards (from 496 to about 525, in line with Australia and Canada) once only whites are considered, so do scores in many European states when only natives are considered (e.g. Germany from 510 to 533; Switzerland from 517 to 542; the Netherlands from 519 to 533). In fact, the countries mentioned above and a few others equalize with Japan’s 529, Taiwan’s 534, and South Korea’s 541 (the natives of these developed East Asian societies also score a lot higher than their immigrants, but the overall effect on the national average is modest because migrant children are such a small percentage of their school-age populations). In other words, in the worst affected European countries, immigrants are lowering the mean national IQ (converted from PISA scores) by as much as 3 points.

This might not seem like much, but it is highly significant when bearing in mind the extremely close correlation between national IQ and prosperity. Furthermore, since immigrant populations tend to be highly variant – for instance, Britain has a lot of Poles, who are essentially equal to the natives in cognitive capacity (maybe even superior, once you adjust for the fact that it is better-educated Poles who tend to emigrate), and a lot of Pakistanis, who are far below them. This is a good explanation for the general sense of dereliction one sees (and the crime one is likely to experience) when entering Pakistani ghettos in the UK…

(4) The US (-4) has an idiotic immigration system that penalizes highly-qualified workers while being relatively lax at controlling (inevitably unqualified, lower-IQ) illegals from Central America. But nonetheless, it’s an economic and technological dynamo, and despite policy failures there are still plenty of high-IQ immigrants.

(5) Spain (-5), Italy (-6), Norway (-7), Sweden (-9), the Netherlands (-9), France (-9), Germany (-10) and Belgium (-11) have progressively worse quality immigrants relative to the natives in their countries. (The reason for why the Med countries do “better” than the Teutonic ones isn’t because they have better immigrants, but because their native IQ’s are lower). Unlike the US, they tend to have few highly-qualified immigrants, as English speaking (and typically lower tax) nations like Australia, the US, etc. are more attractive to high-IQ cosmopolitans. What’s more, a big proportion of the immigrants to Europe are Muslims, whose faith and habits conflict with local mores to a far greater extent than Catholic Hispanics clash with the indigenous American culture.

(6) In countries like Dubai, Qatar, Kazakhstan, and Israel, the higher quality of immigrants is presumably due to the fairly low human capital of the host nations themselves…

IQ is closely correlated with any number of highly important things like productivity, criminality, civic-mindedness, welfare dependency, etc. and research is converging on the view that IQ is highly heritable and that different ethnic groups have different genetic IQ ceilings. This is all reflected in the far lower average cognitive capacities of the immigrant populations of Europe, and to a lesser extent, the US and Canada, relative to that of natives.

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The Future Of Shopping Mall America

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

I can imagine a future in which African Americans, Hispanics, and Koreans – the future rulers of Shopping Mall America – go at it in a serious way, battling on the streets.

After the 1992 LA Riots, when blacks and latinos threatened Korean stores in South-Central, I have some empathy for Koreans who fear blacks and latinos. On the other hand, blacks and latinos have reason to resent Koreans for coming into their neighborhoods and more efficiently running convenience stores than their own groups can.

I accept that different groups have different interests and this often leads to conflict and violence.

Chaim Amalek: “This would make a great dystopian novel or movie. One way to win Hollywood’s approval for this as a movie would be to depict Jews as offering protection to African Americans from rampaging mobs of Hispanics and Koreans. We could even “flip” the story of Ann Frank, with kindly Jews offering a family of AA sanctuary in a secret annex prepared in his home. And we could depict the Koreans as a kind of SS, with the Hispanics playing the role of SA mobs.”

“Now, why would we do such a thing? To make allies of Black Americans in our struggle to close the door against further immigration and to kick out the illegals. Because, let us face it, the white race is far too flaccid to attempt this on its own. And so you see, if the goyim who are concerned about these matters really want to accomplish anything, they will need Yidden as allies to think up winning strategies for them to follow.”

REPORT:

Jenny Hyun, the co-songwriter behind Girls’ Generation‘s “How Great is Your Love” and Chocolat‘s “One More Day” recently sparked controversy with a slew of racist tweets.
On February 16, the former singer posted over a dozen derogatory comments on her Twitter against African-Americans. The fuel for her outrage? A dismissive tweet by boxer Floyd Mayweather about NBA star Jeremy Lin:”Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don’t get the same praise.”
Hyun responded that Floyd was a “subhuman, ungrateful APE,” and then started spreading vitriol about the black community in general. She insinuated that Whitney Houston‘s recent passing wasn’t such a loss because of “all that baggage” she came with, and referred to African-Americans as “disgusting, violent, arrogant, and stupid.” Then, in an even more frightening twist, she repeatedly called for the eradication of the entire black race:
“Eradication of one toxic family is exactly what this world needs.”
“Think about all the money we would save not having to give their never ending charities, replacing a black worker with any other race.”
“We don’t know what it’s like with them not here. But imagine a world with NO BLACK PEOPLE. All the tension in every aspect of life would be drastically improved without them around. And ONLY them.”
K-Pop fans started to tweet her to tell her to stop. Following the angry tweets she received, Hyun protected her Twitter account and then posted an apology of sorts on her blog. The sincerity of her apology left something to be desired, as she prefaced it with an explanation that people were saying they knew where she lived, and followed it up with a statement that she did not regret what she said. She also posted a blog entry with a meme that read “I regret nothing,” as well as another meme that compared a modest hut in Africa to a picture of the Roman Empire 2000 years ago, ostensibly in order to draw a contrast between the quality of the two civilizations.
Later that day, she also tweeted, “I Love KFC #YaHeard” and “This is not Black America, THIS IS ASIA AMERICA.”
UPDATE: Songwriter Jenny Hyun, who sparked controversy after posting a series of deragatory comments calling for the eradication of African-Americans, issued an apology on her blog.
On February 19, the previous apology entry titled “Official Apology to The Black Community” was removed and replaced by a message which was presumably written by her family.

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Why Are Hasidim So Happy?

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

Popular images of Hasidim show them dancing. They have a reputation for happiness.

Why are Hasidim so happy when compared with other types of Jews? Because they are the most insular. They are the least interested in the goyim.

The stronger your in-group identity, the more likely you are to be happy and the less likely you are to be troubled by doubts.

Why is Japan such a harmonious happy country? Because it is 99% Japanese. It has a strong in-group identity.

Why are Los Angelenos so much less happy than residents of Oregon? Because Los Angeles is the most racially diverse big city in America and Oregon is largely white and harmonious.

Diversity breeds disruption, discontent and distress.

If I were to peer deeply into the sacred texts of Hasidim, I would find negative opinions of non-Jews. If I were to peer deeply into the sacred texts of Western civilization, I would find negative statements about Jews and other non-whites and non-Christians. If I were to peer deeply into the key texts of Japan, I would find negative statements about non-Japanese. Big deal. If you have a strong in-group identity, you are likely to have hostility for outsiders.

The Modern Orthodox are not as passionate about their religion, in general, as the Hasidim, because the Modern Orthodox live in two worlds — modernity and Orthodoxy. They have to constantly make judgments about what they can and cannot do. For the Hasid, life is much simpler. Life is within the Hasidic community. Everything else is just for making a living.

In this class on Tanya, the rabbi says: “Jose might be a nice guy, he doesn’t have a Jewish soul.”

According to Tanya, the Jewish soul is willing to give away all physical pleasures to cleave to HaShem.

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Remembering Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Yehuda Moreno

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

In this class on Tanya, 19 minutes in, Rabbi Zev Reichman says: Emmanuel Moreno was the greatest Jewish warrior since the days of Bar Kochba. He was a genius for languages. He was put into a special unit within the General Staff Reconnaissance unit (Sayeret Matkal). He spoke more than 20 different dialects of Arabic. He studied the Koran. He was so deeply immersed in the Muslim world and Muslim thinking, that he went deep deep deep into Arab countries as a radical Muslim. He was a preacher in a radical Islamic mosque… He penetrated Islamic terror networks such as Al Qaeda so deeply that it is illegal [in Israel] to publish his picture.”

“He was in every Arab country you can imagine doing amazing things for Israel — killing terrorists, kidnapping terrorists, getting information…”

“He was very frum (religious). He was learning every day — daf yomi, Tanya, Chofetz Chaim. He was in Damascus and by day he was the preacher in the mosque and at night he was slipping in with radical terrorists and kill a guy and before he went to sleep, he’d learn Shmiros HaLashon (Jewish Laws of Proper Speech).”

Has there ever been a non-Jew who successfully impersonated a rabbi for a length of time? Has there ever been a Muslim spy who did this and led services and rendered decisions on Jewish law, etc?

According to Wikipedia:

Moreno was born in France, to Sylvia and Shlomo Ilan Moreno. Moreno’s family made aliyah to Israel when he was one year old. Raised in Jerusalem, Emmanuel studied at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Paul Himmelfarb High School, and Bnei David pre-army mechina in Eli.

Moreno served in Sayeret Matkal for 16 years, progressing through the ranks to Lieutenant Colonel, a rank that was personally granted to him by the former head of the IDF Intelligence Division (Hebrew: ראש אגף המודיעין), Major General Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash. As this rank is equal to that of the Sayeret Matkal Commander, a role that Moreno did not fulfill, this was considered to be an exceptional event. The former Commander of Sayeret Matkal, Herzi Halevi (Hebrew: הרצי הלוי), described Emmanuel’s unique character as an IDF combatant: “If the IDF is the best military in the world, and Sayeret Matkal is the best unit in the IDF, and Emmanuel is the best soldier in the unit, then Emmanuel is the best soldier in the world.” Herzi Halevi said this when Emmanuel was still alive. Avi Dichter, Israeli MK and former Minister of Internal Security, who also served in Sayeret Matkal, described Emmanuel as having served in the spearhead of his unit, “an elite force within an elite force” [1] (Hebrew: הסיירת של הסיירת). Through the years, Emmanuel was trained for special operations, requiring an extremely high level of skill and risk tolerance, far beyond that of the “average” soldier serving in Sayeret Matkal. Among other missions, Moreno participated in the apprehension of Lebanese guerrilla leader, Mustafa Dirani, from his home in Lebanon in 1994, and commanded the rescue mission of taxi driver, Eliahu Gorel, who was kidnapped by Palestinians in 2003 and held in a basement near Ramallah. Many of the commando operations Moreno participated in are still classified. The IDF has not, to this day, released his photo to the public for reasons of national security.

Though the IDF did not release information on the raid in which Moreno was killed, details were filtered to the Israeli media. According to the media, Moreno and his commando team was airdropped into the area by helicopter with two Humvees. Their mission was to attack a Hezbollah base in the village of Bodei, near Baalbek, which was used by Hezbollah for weapons smuggling. The commando team was discovered around the heavily guarded base, and a pitched battle ensued. Moreno was killed, and two officers were wounded. At least three Hezbollah fighters were also killed and two were reportedly taken prisoner. Close air support from fighter jets and attack helicopters prevented Hezbollah reinforcements from reaching the battle or encircling the commandos. The commandos were extracted, together with Moreno’s body and the Hezbollah prisoners, after a lengthy firefight.[2]

Moreno lived in Tlamim, a moshav in the Hevel Lakhish region of southern Israel. Emmanuel, 35 years of age, was survived by his wife, Maya, and his three children. All four of his brothers served in elite IDF units, including his younger brother “D”, who continued in his path and later served in a high-ranking position within the same unit.

YNET:

After several months in his presence, Maya Moreno already got used to not always knowing where her husband Emanuel heads to every morning. Is he on his way to another secret operation, deep in enemy territory? Will he find himself under a barrage of bullets or face-to-face with a surprised terrorist in a few hours? Will he arrive home very late, almost never in uniform but with “the unit’s” emblem above his left pocket, stepping gingerly as not to wake up the kids? Or will he again spend the night “there,” involved in yet another operation that will likely never be publicized? One could only guess.

Maya knew well that she did not marry a nine-to-five man who proceeds to do the grocery shopping after leaving the office. Even today, most of Emmanuel Moreno’s operations are unknown outside the defense establishment or are under a gag order. However, his name is whispered with great reverence within the “unit” and among his commanders. “The IDF’s no. 1 fighter,” senior officers referred to him. “The soul of Sayeret Matkal,” his comrades say. Meanwhile, religious soldiers refer to him as “the man who followed in the footstep of legendary Jewish hero Bar Kochba.”

The operations Morano was involved in were so secretive and sophisticated that even today, four years after his death, censors ban the publication of his photographs. Hence, Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Moreno is believed to be the only soldier in IDF history whose photo cannot be published even posthumously.

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Life Is An IQ Test

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

The dumb die young.

REPORT:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A 3-year-old boy found a handgun in his mother’s purse and fired just one shot that wounded both his parents at an Albuquerque motel on Saturday, police said.
According to investigators, the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon. Police believe the shooting to be accidental.
The bullet first struck his father in the buttock and then hit the right shoulder of his mother, who is eight months pregnant, police said. His 2-year-old sister was present but unhurt.
Both injuries are non-life threatening, authorities said.
Justin Reynolds told KOB-TV (http://goo.gl/gRCXe0) that he and his girlfriend, Monique Villescas, were getting ready to order pizza when the toddler fired the shot.

Justin Reynolds is white. His girlfriend is latina. Downwardly mobile whites increasingly marry latinas and their families end up speaking Spanish as a primary language and stay in the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder.

This stupid stuff is what happens when society’s average IQ goes down every year.

Psychologist Linda Gottfredson has studied the link between IQ and lifespan. She writes: “Studies of middle-aged and particularly older-aged adults found that those with higher scores on tests of IQ (cognitive function) had lower rates of later mortality.”

Steve Sailer argues that Hispanic immigration is “recreating the racial hierarchy of Mexico” in California:

While upwardly mobile Mexican-Americans marry blonde Anglos, downwardly mobile white men wed Mexicans. Now, there is no doubt plenty to be said for getting hitched to a Mexican lady. They probably tend to make better mothers, homemakers, and cooks than the leggy blonde careerists who, however, are so much more in demand in Southern California. But sadly, there is a big social cost to Anglo-Hispanic marriages—which raises severe doubts about America’s ability to assimilate Latino immigrants. As pro-immigration/pro-assimilation researcher Gregory Rodriguez admits, “Surprisingly, in most homes headed by an Anglo/Latino couple, Spanish becomes the household language.”
Thus, those L.A. blue-collar whites who don’t flee to Utah will tend to assimilate genetically and culturally into Latino culture.

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Super Bowl Thoughts: New England 28-24 Seattle

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

Last year, I rooted for the Seahawks because I could not stand seeing Peyton Manning’s smug face on any more commercials.

Before this year’s game, I posted on FB: “Seattle is the better team. I don’t understand why they’re not favorites in this Super Bowl.”

My TV screen shows a white (New England, consistently about the whitest team in the league) vs black (Seattle) contest.

Seattle’s defense is all black. The team leads the league in defense and in penalties.

When black Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin catches a touchdown, he takes a pretend dump on the ground.

When white Patriot Danny Amendola catches a touchdown, he just drops the ball without any theatrics.

New England’s white Jewish receiver Julian Edelman catches the winning touchdown and then gives the ball up to a teammate. No wild celebration.

Seattle drives down to New England’s one yard line with 30 seconds left in the game and the black Seahawks quarterback throws an interception.

New England then has the ball at its one yard line. Seattle has one time-out. Seattle crowds the line to get a rush on Brady and sack him in the end zone but the most penalized team in the league commits a killer mistake. Defensive lineman Michael Bennett rushes up to the line of scrimmage, he’s been penalized ten times during the season for being off-side, and he jumps off-side and gives the game to New England.

On the next play, the Seahawks start fights after the snap and Seattle linebacker Bruce Irvin is ejected.

The smart disproportionately white (for the NFL) team won the game over the athletically superior black team who often play like thugs.

New England was penalized five times for 36 yards and Seattle was penalized seven times for 70 yards.

The biggest reason, however, that Seattle did not win the game was the fault of its white coach, Peter Carroll and its white offensive coordinator, Darrell Bevell, who on 2nd down and 1 yard to go from the one, with one time-out, did not run the beast Marshawn Lynch. Instead Seattle chose to throw the ball and that decision cost the team the game.

Alex: “Funny how it’s rarely mentioned that two of the most successful franchises in the NFL the last 15 years (Pats and Colts) have also had the lowest percentage of black players in the league.”

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Bnei Akiva Camp Might Open To Non-Jews As Well

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jewish Journal:

Rabbi Menachem Hecht, Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles’ newly hired and first executive director, said he wants Running Springs to become a meeting point for “Jews across the spectrum” to interact with one another, and added that Bnei Akiva would consider opening the site to non-Jewish groups, as well, “to the degree that it allows us to maximize occupancy and be financially sustainable.”

Imagine the uproar if a Christian camp said they might consider allowing Jewish groups to use their facility. If non-Jews discriminate against Jews, it is anti-semitism, but if Jews discriminate against non-Jews, they’re simply upholding their unique heritage.

For any group to sustain its heritage, it has to practice discrimination.

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