Every major Jewish organization supports immigration amnesty aka open borders for America. Yet these Jewish organizations support the opposite policies for Israel — keep out all illegal aliens and ship those that get through the nasty fence back to Africa. Twitter Facebook
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There’s nothing in the Jewish tradition that says Jews should fight for gay rights, but Jews, more than any other ethnic or religious group, have been behind the push for gay rights. Why? Because leading Jewish organizations such as the ADL sense that Jews are safer in a fractious cosmopolitan Gentile society than in a cohesive nationalist Gentile society.
Of the four panelists, Marnin, ADL associate director of legal affairs, was one of two Jewish community members to participate in “Coming Out to Your Jewish/Black/Asian/Latino Family: Being LGBT and a Minority in Los Angeles,” held May 20 at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Koreatown and organized by the ADL’s Latino Jewish Roundtable and Asian Jewish Initiative. The other was Gamal Palmer, senior director of the Community Leadership Institute (CLI) at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, who said he is Jewish and Native American and identified as “non-hetero.” He said coming to terms with his religious identity has been as much a struggle as reconciling with his gender identity.
“My first coming-out story was that I’m now Jewish,” Palmer said during the panel, which attracted approximately 75 people.
When the event’s moderator, ADL
Regional Director Amanda Susskind, asked Palmer to elaborate on the “non-hetero” label, Palmer said that he describes himself as such to prevent people from putting him in a box.
The other participants were Eileen Ma, who hails from a Pacific Islander family and is executive director of Asians and Pacific Islanders for LGBT Equality, and actor and Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation national spokesperson Wilson Cruz, who is Latino.
Orthodox Jews, particularly haredi Jews, however, are less likely than non-Orthodox Jews to participate in these radical movements.
Tribes, for instance, may find it in their interest to promote tribal rights, gay rights, and the like not because they inherently believe in such things (they may hate such things for themselves), but because a society with these rights in abundance is likely to be more hospitable to tribes.
Interesting that a conventional Republican neo-conservative site like Powerline is running blog posts like this:
(1) Statistical racial disparities permeate every stage of the criminal justice system, from arrest to conviction to incarceration and sentencing.
(2) The racial disparities reflect underlying behavioral disparities.
(3) Blacks are disproportionately subject to arrest, conviction, incarceration, and sentencing because they are disproportionately perpetrators of the corresponding criminal behavior.
(4) The statistical racial disparities do not derive from racially discriminatory law enforcement by the police or prosecutors or judges and juries.
(5) These disparities have now been the subject of scholarly observation and inquiry for generations. The scholarship supports each of the theses set forth above.
Think about the qualities of a qreat woman. Is it that she’s a tricycle — easy to ride? That anyone can come over and have sex with her? No. It’s the opposite. A good woman is someone you can be sure who the father of her children is.
Same goes for countries. Do open borders make for quality countries? No. Jews are a prestigious community because they make conversion difficult. All great places and people have strong borders. Israel and the United States have tons of trash because they have allowed in the wrong types of people. If you allow in lots of Africans, you import the qualities of Africa. If you allow in Mexicans, you import the qualities of Mexico.
Dan Goldberg writes for The Jewish Chronicle:
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver is not your average Australian Jew. True, she is one of this country’s 110,000 or so tribal members, but she is also a member of another tribe – an Aboriginal tribe called the Wiradjuri.
And yet, despite the seeming rarity of an Aboriginal Jew, Professor Jackson Pulver says she is not alone. “The first Jew came here on the First Fleet in 1788 and since then Jews have been marrying Aborigines because white women wouldn’t marry them,” she said this week. “There’s a big mob of black Cohens out there and they’ve got Jewish ancestry.”
But few, if any, of those “black Cohens” have been awarded an Order of Australia, as Professor Jackson Pulver, an expert in indigenous health, was last week.
The citation said the award was for her “contribution to medical education and for her support for educational opportunities for Aboriginal Australians”.
‘Jews and Aborigines have many profound things in common’
The first Aboriginal Australian to receive a PhD in medicine from the University of Sydney, Professor Jackson Pulver is now the director of the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
She said she was “probably proudest” of the Shalom Gamarada scholarship programme, which she founded in 2004 in conjunction with Ilona Lee, president of the Shalom Institute, which runs a Jewish residential college at the University of New South Wales.
“I set up a programme to help raise money for indigenous students to get medical degrees,” Professor Jackson Pulver said, noting that 37 Aboriginal students have graduated through the scholarship.
Aboriginal health is a massive problem in Australia, with life expectancy among the indigenous community – which numbers about 400,000 – some 20 years lower than among white Australians.
“We have had some wins,” she said of her battle to improve indigenous people’s health. “Not as many babies are dying. And we now have about 150 Aboriginal doctors around Australia. Twenty years ago we had one.”
With Scottish and Welsh roots, she describes as a “defining moment” of her career an address she gave in 2004 to the British House of Commons on the state of indigenous health.
Professor Jackson Pulver, whose Aboriginal lineage can be traced back to her two indigenous grandmothers, completed an Orthodox conversion to Judaism in 2004.
“The things that bring us together are our history of dispossession, a deep sense of family, community and tribalism and a deep sense of what’s wrong and what’s right,” Professor Jackson Pulver, whose Hebrew name is Elisheva bat Sarah, said. “There is a natural relationship between my Aboriginal spirituality and my Jewish religion.
“I keep a kosher home, and I make my own challah every Friday. And I attend to cultural and spiritual practises of my grandmothers’ cultures.”
The last citation on her Order of Australia lists her presidency of Newtown Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation in Sydney which she has led since 2010.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff said: “The Jewish and Aboriginal peoples share many profound commonalities – a deep connection to land, a history of dispossession and genocide, the importance of memory, and a rich, vibrant culture. Lisa Jackson Pulver proudly embodies and embraces both aspects of her identity as the first Aboriginal woman to serve as president of an Orthodox synagogue.”
Jackson Pulver, who also has Scottish and Welsh roots, is one of many Jews and Aborigines who have been building bridges between the two communities for years.
In 1938, William Cooper, an elder from the Yorta Yorta people — indigenous Australians who originally hailed from northeast Victoria — petitioned the German Consulate in Melbourne to stop the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Cooper recently was honored posthumously by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem.
In the 1960s, James Spigelman, the outgoing Jewish chief justice of New South Wales, led Freedom Rides to advocate for rights for Aboriginals, who faced widespread inequalities and discrimination.
In the 1990s, Jewish lawyer Ron Castan won a landmark case that reversed the legal concept of no-man’s land, or terra nullius, which Australian governments had used to deny indigenous Australians’ land rights.
And Mark Leibler, national chairman of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, was a former co-chair of Reconciliation Australia, which attempts to bridge gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
A large number of American men have already been arrested by the time they’re in their early 20s, according to a new report.
The study, published on Monday in the journal Crime & Delinquency, found that nearly half (49 percent) of African-American men and 40 percent of white men have been arrested by the age of 23, “which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities,” according to a press release.
The research was based on an analysis of national survey data from 1997 to 2008 of teenagers and young adults. The arrests included minor crimes like truancy as well as serious violent crimes. It excluded traffic offenses.
A friend notes:
They are afraid in the article to break it down by types of crime.
They should break it down by race for:
1. Unlawful killing (murder, manslaughter etc)
2. Forcible rapes
3. Other sex crimes
4. Assaults
5. Armed robberies
6. DUI
7. Drug trafficking
8. Drug possession
9. Larceny and related (receiving stolen property)
The author of this new book (Good Intentions – Arab high-tech in Israel) does not mention the significant average IQ differences between Ashkenazim (105-115), Sephardim (97), Mizrahim (92) and Arabs (85).
The sad truth is that this segregation feels natural to many Jewish Israelis (myself included, at least before I began writing the book). This de-facto segregation is not questioned, even though the industry is hungry for engineers to fill its ranks. On the contrary, it is often justified by arguing, in essence, that the hiring process is meritocratic, that they may not be “good enough”. In 2007 Arabs, according to many estimates, counted for one half a percent of Israel’s high-tech workforce. Today observers place the ratio of Arab participation in high-tech at about 2%, reflecting an influx of Arab high-tech workers into the workforce. People that had little chances of finding a job in the mid-2000s can now, albeit with difficulty, hope that an engineering degree can land them one of Israel’s coveted high-tech jobs.
The same sort of segregation goes on with blacks and high tech in America.
For 25 years, Roy Naim, an undocumented immigrant, led a secretive life. Having no identification papers, he could not drive, rent an apartment or be legally employed. Worst of all, he constantly feared being deported from his home and family. All he did was try to lie low, and somehow get by.
Naim is still undocumented. But in the past year he has been doing anything but lying low. Since June 2012, the young man, who spent his entire adult life in the shadow of society, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine, was featured in a documentary and was interviewed by the New York Daily News. He is constantly on Twitter and Facebook, promoting a new immigration bill that would secure his future as an American.
Naim, 29, an Israeli-born Orthodox Jew, has become the Jewish face of activism for immigration reform.
In many ways he’s an unusual figure among immigrant activists. Three-quarters of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants are Hispanic, along with 11% from Asia, according to a 2009 Pew Research Study. Less than 2% are from the Middle East.
The New York Legal Assistance Group, an organization that offers free legal services, has received 342 applications on behalf of Jewish undocumented immigrants. Many others apply through private attorneys.
“We know there are thousands of undocumented Jews presently residing in New York City,” said Yisroel Schulman, who founded NYLAG in 1990, adding that it works with a network of 150 Jewish, community-based organizations.
Clear data on the number of Jewish illegal immigrants in the United States is not available because most are doing what Naim did for 25 years: living in the shadows of society.
Forward: Two Orthodox groups that aid disabled children are downplaying their ties to a prominent undocumented immigration activist who has been accused of downloading child pornography.
Roy Naim was accused on September 18 in federal court in Brooklyn with admitting to agents during a search of his house that he had child pornography on his laptop. According to the criminal complaint, Naim, who was profiled in a June 2012 Time magazine cover story on undocumented illegal immigrants, said that he had been viewing and downloading child pornography for years. He was released September 19, on a $250,000 bond.
In online profiles, Naim claimed he had worked from 2003 through 2008 at Camp Simcha, a camp for ill Orthodox children that was run by the group Chai Lifeline. The profiles said Naim was a “division head” at the camp. Naim also claimed to have worked as a running coach at the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, a network of Orthodox schools for disabled people, and as a motivational running coach at Yachad, an Orthodox service agency for disabled people…
Naim, who is partially deaf, moved to the United States from Israel with his family when he was 4. The Naims overstayed their visas and settled in the country. He remains an undocumented immigrant. Naim was the subject of a Forward profile earlier this year when he emerged as a high-profile advocate for undocumented immigrants. The profile described Naim as “the Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle.”
Naim did media rounds in June promoting a game created by the website DoSomething.org , meant to dramatize the plight of undocumented immigrants.
REPORT: Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees.
