Employee Reviews At Jewish Federation Of Los Angeles

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Luke Ford

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* I have been working at Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Relatively stress free environment, fairly easy work when compared to for-profit businesses and agencies, low pressure. Decent work-life balance, very rarely asked to work overtime, never have to take work home with you. Great benefits for long term employees, lots of vacation days. Genuine and friendly coworkers, and overall you feel like you are contributing to a good cause.
Cons
However, when you peel back the curtain and find out more about how this organization really works from the top down, there is some serious ugly happening here. Everything said in other reviews is true – management staff is completely incompetent from the executives down through department administrators. No idea how to lead a team, how to inspire you to do your best, or how build trust between themselves and their workers. This becomes the only real cause of stress at your job, rather than the work itself.

Furthermore, management in every department shows a stunning lack of understanding of current technology, social trends, and business acumen. I mean barely able to check their email. The attitude however, remains father-knows-best, and people with no experience or knowledge will tell you exactly what to do, and how to do it.

This all results in a restrictive, blinded work environment that discourages critical thinking and creativity. You are expected to fall in line and follow orders to the letter, which is a poor way to operate for a non-profit with so much potential. There is no opportunity for job growth or promotion – there are people working here in the same position for over 35+ years. Unless you belong to the real inner clique, you will be seen as an outsider and kept in place by your superiors.
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Advice to Management
Send your management staff to leadership training, place higher levels of trust in your employees. If you hire someone for their knowledge and skills, listen to them when they come up with solutions for on the job problems. Stop telling your workers how to do the job you hired them to do, and encourage them to grow and thrive both at the office and in the community.

* I have been working at Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles full-time
Pros
Allows opportunities for professional development, offers exercise classes after work (at employee’s expense to be deducted from paycheck), has a small “gym” you can use, friendly staff and opporutnities to get to know people from other departments and those who work in different programs. Plenty of paid Jewish and national holidays off.
Cons
From what I can see, it’s difficult to get a promotion beyond a certain point if you’re not Jewish or “connected”. Not the best environment if you’re not actually interested in advancing Israel as a whole instead of focusing on the program you’re with. Upper management makes important decisions for each program without opening it up for discussion with people who actually run the program. High staff turnover.
Advice to Management
Decentralize a bit and allow people to take ownership of their programs. They know them best because they’re on the ground operating them every day. Maybe hold a “town hall” style meeting to allow people to speak openly and honestly.

* I worked at Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
You can literally do nothing all day and still look productive compared to other people there. Unlimited k cups is pretty useful as well to keep you awake in your dark cubicle. They block streaming video, but you can still kill your 8 union-mandated hours on Facebook and CNN.
Cons
There is a policy, a form, etc. for EVERYTHING at this place. HR sent out an email letting everyone know that “Federation Fun Day” was MANDATORY, and that if you didn’t come on time to the company picnic, you’d lose a vacation day. The entire organization is so compartmentalized and it is so top down. If you have any idea of moving above your role at the Federation, think again. Management is terrible and ineffective. There is SO much waste at the Federation. After working here I would never donate to it… I’ve even convinced a relative to take it out if her will. HR periodically forgets to deduct from employees’ pay checks for Union dues, health insurance, etc. and then slams the employee with a large bill after several months… Oh yeah, the HMO with a massive deductible is like $400-500/month.
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Advice to Management
Replace the c-level executives. The old-timers in the company are leaving along with the millennials because they remember a time when it wasn’t a bad place to work.

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Museum Of Tolerance Reviews

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Luke Ford

From Glassdoor:

* Pros
Most of the people you work with are very committed to promoting equality, tolerance, fairness, and social justice. Most of the museum staff are nice.
Cons
The museum is run by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), which is a terrible organization. The leadership of SWC pays itself huge salaries (literally google “Overpaid Jewish Nonprofit” and the SWC CEO tops the list in the first article) while paying museum staff minimum wage with no benefits and no hope for raises or career development. Staff are treated horribly by upper management, both in interpersonal interactions and through sketchy business practices. They exploit the museum’s staff by relying on their commitment to one another and to the mission of the museum.

Moreover, SWC does NOT promote the equality and social justice that the museum stands for. Seriously, just google it. If you work here, you will be unhappy. I guarantee it.
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Advice to Management
Look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is acceptable.

* Pros
Opportunity to meet people from all over the world. Flexibility in schedule
Cons
Pay sucks, poor management, no benefits, minimal hours

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SPLC 2: The Search for More Money

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Paranoia Porn pays well. Parapornoia.

If porn industry turn gentiles into meat, parapornoia industry turns gentiles into monsters.

Paradoxically, the great reduction of real bigotry requires elaborate production of fantasy bigotry.

So, those rich Jewish donors are not clueless. They are not dupes who fear cossacks next door. Their real fear is that the decline of bigotry will ease ‘white guilt’ and make whites less invested in favoring minorities(esp Jews) for ‘protection’. So, whites must be made to believe that there is still a lot of white evil. So, ‘good whites’ must do their utmost to keep the Nazis and KKK at bay.
Also, blacks must be made to believe in KKK so that they will stick with Jews for protection.
Make whites go on seeing Jews as victims of KKK and Nazis lurking here, there, everywhere.
Especially because Jews and powerful, they fear that once whites lose ‘white guilt’, whites will notice that Jews got the Real power. So, just make whites keep on believing that White Supremacism is the great dark force in America. Make whites think of Jews as poor helpless victims. $PLC is publicity agent of this fabricated-paranoia. Of course, it’s hilarious if one thinks about it. An organization called ‘southern’ but funded by East Coast and West Coast Jews AND with ‘poverty’ in its title but worth more than 300 million. Casino Jack was small taters.

Sheldon Adelson and Netanyahu pull the same racket but on even a larger scale. IRAN WILL SOON HAVE NUKES AND WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP.

And Neocons are no better and far more dangerous. “Hussein is getting getting yellow cake from Betty Crocker to bake atomic cakes that will blow up the world. Something must be done!!”

And Hollywood gave us GET OUT!!!!!!! (which should be called ‘get out of here’). TV shows routinely feature magic negroes and loutish whites as villains.

Drama Queens all. It’s like Jewish Mother trying to guilt-bait the son.

These are all Jewish-mama’s-boys-network.

All throughout Jewish history, the four main emphases were on holy righteousness, pleasure of profit, tribal identity, and pride of wit/smarts.

In some cases, there were Jews with genuine merit as moralists(or spiritualists), businessmen, patriot-heroes(like David), or intellectuals(or scientists).

But lowlife Jews like Morris Dees(who lack any real depth or talent) only know the art of hustle. Though lacking substance, they have just enough knack and savvy to mix moralism, greed, leadership, and wit(just enough to pull off a racket). Belfort was shameless sleaze, as are Jews who run porn. But Dees mixes moralism with profit, like the Christian televangelists he surely learned from.

His basic nature? Just a con-artist and heister.

I think there is more pressure on Jews to make it cuz there are so many successful Jews. If you’re a ‘dumb polack’, you are just one of the many. But if you’re a zero-Jew, you seem esp like a loser compared to so many winner-Jews. It may partly explain why some Jews like Stephen Glass of New Republic lied so much. He was hungry for success that is seen as birthright of Jews. (And high rate of SAT cheating in South Korea may also owe to culture of pressure to succeed… or else you’re nothing).

So, Jews who are bright but not bright enough and don’t have the real talent to become rich or reputable turn to bullshi*, like Dees and Bernie Madoff(though Madoff had to have been smarter to pull his stunt) have done.
These Jews are smarter than goyim but not smart enough to be like Google guys, Spielberg, Bloomberg, and others with real talent. So, their shtick is pulling some BS. Saban has to be such Jew. He seems to have lucked out with Power Rangers of all things.
Some Jews pull the BS by giving crap to dumb goyim. Jerry Springer.
Some Jews make a pact with rich Jews to cook up schemes to control goyim. Dees is such guy. There is wink-wink understanding between him and his donors that his real job is to scaremonger to keep ‘white guilt’ racket going.
And neocons are paid by rich Jews to create some ‘new hitler’ around the world so that white goyim will go on rallying around Jews to ‘save’ them. Of late, Putin is the ‘new hitler’, and maybe Trump is ‘clone hitler’.

William Kristol is one of those guys… smarter than dumb goyim like Bush II and Dan Quayle but not smart enough to be really successful at anything. So, he serves the Power and gets a piece of the pie by scaremongering about some new ‘existential threat’. He’s feeling down because the Power turned to him to find some way to stop Trump. His great idea? Have David French enter the race.

But these parasitic Jews like Kristol and Dees wouldn’t be much with really successful Jews to leech off of.

What accounts for great Jewish success?

Some peoples are known for intelligence, some for tribalism, some for strong personality, some for aggression, some for trickery, some for integrity, some for work ethic.

Episcopalians have intelligence and work ethic but weak identity.
Sicilians have tribal identity but no integrity.
Gyspies have trickery but no work ethic and no intelligence.
Blacks got aggression but no integrity and intelligence.
Asians got intelligence and work ethic but weak personalities and no tribalism outside Asia.

Jews have the combination of intelligence, tribalism, personality, aggression, trickery, integrity (and righteousness), and work ethic.

Esp after the holocaust and great post-WWII success, Jews feel a need to be both righteous (and respected) and successful (and admired). But it’s tough to be very successful (even for smart people) and respected (since doing ‘good work’ is time-consuming and taxing).

This burden and desperation (and hypocrisy) were captured in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.

* The SPLC has specific policy goals. They use the accusations of racism and anti-Jewism to stifle debate on their preferred policy goals. It is also a money pot for the shysters who work there.

For instance, the SPLC pushes mass immigration in order to attack the European Christian ancestral core of the United States. Instead of admitting that nasty goal, they simply attack all attempts at immigration restrictionism as racism.

President Trump should make it clear that he will cease all contact with any corporate media outlets that use the SPLC as a source.

* There is nothing new about $P£¢’s gelt-grubbing formula.

But calling Morrie Dees a “likable knave” makes him sound more like an old eccentric zayde who pishes in the coal bin and giggles when somebody gets their hands wet…rather than the cold-hearted race-baiting sociopath his career and lifestyle suggest.

He also has had a deeply chilling effect on the progress of the study and development of population genetics and human evolution in the west.

We could have been to the HBD stars by now. Maybe even started getting to the bottom of, say, what ails blacks and what to do about it to liberate them humanely from the DNC’s plantation. Rather than further monetarizing it for the profits of the Deeses, Potoks, and Beiriches.

Instead, we’ve had to pile the money on Morrie’s mule cart.

One might suggest $P£¢ is even indirectly, if not directly, responsible for the deaths of people. Like that Berkeley Hills/Tilden Regional Park jogger a couple years ago–the old Teaching Tolerance guy who apparently was far too tolerant of the brutha who shot him dead.

I’d say Dees is one of the most toxic figures of the 20th century.

* Two big factors in turning people against the SPLC more recently were the Floyd Corkins shooting at the Family Research Council, which was inspired by them and adding Ben Carson to their extremists list for some of his comments on gay marriage. After that, mainstream Republicans became openly dismissive of the SPLC and pushed back against their attacks. People like [Brit] Hume finally figured out they could be the next ones in the line of fire.

* In a past life, my Jewish ex-gf used to speak fondly of the SPLC, much like she did the ADL (as in, “these are good people!”). She referred to both of them in expanded form, not acronyms. She had the sort of reverence and respect for them that an 80 year old might have had for Readers Digest, back about 30 years ago.

She was a big fan of hate crime legislation, and would bring up that gay guy who was dragged behind a truck. Because it was obviously legal to do that to gays, I guess it was totally admissible in court to say “Look your honor, I caught him blowing a dude in the bathroom, so I was forced to drag him behind my pickup until he expired.” “Ok, case dismissed!”

* I’ll admit that it can be interesting to browse the SPLC hatelist database. Obviously, the profiles they do are biased to no end, but it’s nice to have a wiki style encyclopedia of all the thought criminals, past and present, in one place. If nothing else, it serves as a good jumping off point for further reading.

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Who Killed Michael Hastings, Jorge Haider?

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer wrote Nov. 5, 2013:

People who make themselves obnoxious to the Washington-Wall Street axis of power tend to get in trouble on sex charges (Spitzer, Assange, and Strauss-Kahn). So, when investigative reporter Michael Hastings, who had brought down the top general in Afghanistan, died last June in a car crash in nice part of Los Angeles, I actually left the house to visit the scene. 

In person, while still somewhat puzzling, it looked less suspicious than in pictures online. Brave guys, I guess, are often brave about bad driving, too. 

Interestingly, blogger Paleo Retiree of Uncouth Reflections (and formerly of 2Blowhards, the best arts and culture blog of the previous decade) had been a good friend of Hastings. Here he interviews brother Jonathan Hastings about the late Michael Hastings.

Comments today at Steve Sailer:

* Steve, it might be a good idea to bump some of your posts about Michael Hastings in light of today’s Wikileaks confirming that the CIA had access to hack the onboard computer systems of cars.

* Re the stuff about being able to take control of car systems remotely – anyone know what kind of engine/braking management system the late Jorg Haider’s car had when it went off the road? Not saying CIA did it, but it was very convenient. People like Haider with many political enemies shouldn’t be driving alone.

* Whatever you call it, Mark Felt’s actions were not driven by ideology but by the fact he was passed over for FBI head by Nixon.

So Nixon had to pay. Fortunately for Felt, he had a way of hitting back at Nixon. Nixon’s pre-election antics were enough to require him to step down.

The opposition to Trump, what form is it taking? Well, if it’s like the case of Mark Felt, we won’t know for decades.

It could be ideological or personal, but most important: does Trump have a weak point as Nixon did?

* I suspect it will eventually be confirmed that the FBI applied for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance (FISA) court over the summer in order to monitor four members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials. The FISA court turned down the application asking FBI counter-intelligence investigators to narrow its focus. According to one report, the FBI was finally granted a warrant in October.

The media is ignoring the FISA request because it damages the story, if the Russians were working with Trump why did the courts reject the warrant to tap the lines of Trumps team members ? Lack of evidence suggests the Russia reports are not backed by any hard evidence…If the FBI was eventually granted the warrants to tap the phones it makes the Obama administration look sinister, wire tapping the campaign of the GOP candidate…which is much worse than anything Nixon did.

* A black man is arrested for making eight different bomb threats to Jewish organizations, and USDOJ charges him with one count…of harassing his ex-girlfriend.

I was hoping Jeff Sessions would be using a different playbook than the one Eric Holder used.

* US, from big Britain to big Italy.

From a nation built by people of trust to a nation divvied up by peoples of treason.

Given the growing diversity and competing interests, everything will be seen as ‘treasonous’ by some group. Wasps, Jews, blacks, browns, yellows, Muslims, and etc all have different visions of what American should be. That means one man’s patriotism is another man’s treachery or treason.

So, what was once considered Trust is now Treason. So, Trump’s nationalism and concern for working class is seen as ‘treason’ by some who even call for Deep State mafia-like coup or Military takeover. But to white patriots, globalists are the treasonous ones.
To white citizenists, illegal immigration is treason. To illegals and their supporters, secure borders is ‘treason’ against Statue of Liberty.

As common themes, bonds, and trust fall apart, the operative text of US will not be the Constitution of the Founders but Machiavelli’s THE PRINCE.

Each group will have to learn the Art of the Mafia.

* The security apparatus is a natural reaction to multiculturalism and the resultant political polarization. Large numbers of people in this country have no real ties of loyalty both to the state and their fellow citizens. Had the Democrats stolen the election, I had no intention of recognizing H. Clinton as the legitimate President. And I was quite prepared to do my own part to greatly increase the ethnoreligious tensions, via the instigation of a right-wing BDS movement.

Even an immigration moratorium of that length would not be enough. We need to deport a significant number of citizens-on-paper-only (subversives) from this country, or we need to explore a civil divorce of the states.

The CIA came into existence because the US and the UK could no longer rely in MI6 to carry out the work of global subversion by itself. The British were broke after WWII, we were not.

The people that make up the FBI aim to win criminal convictions, very by-the-book. They are not at all equipped to act as foreign subversives or as a secret police. That’s why we have both the CIA and the SPLC.

The USSR made this much easier to identify because all of this was centralized in the KGB, which remained organized using military ranks.

The allegation that Russia hacked the election results is prolefeed.

The actual allegations seem to be:

-Trump owes Russian banks a substantial sum
-Trump covered up his taxes for that reason
-Trump isn’t a billionaire
-Trump had a deal for debt forgiveness that involved recognizing Crimea
-Trump promised no retaliation in exchange for Russia hacking the DNC

As far as I know, there isn’t much evidence for any of these claims. Believing even one of them assumes that Putin is a reckless gambler who just pulled off the greatest upset in power politics since Louis XVI backed us in the Revolution. But yet he couldn’t cover his tracks from the NYT and WaPo.

It is much easier to cut through the Gordian knot to see the real agenda:

The permanent political class wants to overthrow Putin for the following reasons:

-Putin has resisted Cultural Marxism
-Putin obstructed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
-Putin supports Iran as a counterbalance to US hegemony
-Jewish tribal hate towards the Russian Orthodox

Tayip Erdogan is a far bigger threat to us than Putin.

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Jenna Jameson’s Shocking Alt-Right Transformation

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Luke Ford

Aurora Snow writes:

Jenna Jameson is once again the talk of the porn industry. An icon with close to 200 adult films under her belt, Jameson is still idolized by many women getting their start in the biz. But there will never be another Jenna. The former Queen of Porn has achieved more mainstream recognition than any female porn star, despite remarking at the 2008 AVN Awards, “I’ll never, ever, ever spread my legs again in this industry. Ever.” While shaming the adult industry is apparently forgivable, a series of alt-right social media tirades has forced even Jameson’s most ardent supporters in the XXX world to reexamine the woman who’s come to represent it.
Since the start of her conversion to the Jewish faith, a journey she embarked on in order to marry her shady Israeli jeweler/fiancé Lior Bitton, Jameson has adopted a fierce and public anti-Islam stance, ranting against Muslims online and clapping back at those in disagreement. She regularly shares stories and videos about the alleged havoc wreaked by adherents of Islam from dubious far-right sites like the pro-Trump agitprop outlet Breitbart and conspiracy theory forum Infowars, along with bigoted replies from her army of close to 700,000 Twitter followers.
Her XXX industry defenders, who would mostly like to remain nameless, point out that the terror of ISIS hits a bit close to home for Jameson, who is eight months pregnant with Bitton’s baby. She tweeted: “My husband is a morrocan Jew… his family was forced from morocco by the escalating violent Muslim climate there.”
But then there was the time Jameson made headlines for her apparent defense of the KKK. Jameson tweeted: “Do the klu klux klan follow a religion that orders the death of apostates? When was the last time we saw a klan member blow up infidels?”
Shortly after her alleged defense of the KKK, Jameson followed it up with another tweet clearly not in favor of the Klan, or Democrats: “Yes, and thank god they’ve been all but eradicated and forced into obscurity… no thanks to the democrats who created them.” (The KKK was affiliated with the Southern Democrats, but those people were mostly absorbed into the Republican Party following the implementation of Nixon and Goldwater’s “southern strategy.”)

Jameson claims it was all a misunderstanding in the service of defending her family. She explained to The Daily Beast, “Another Twitter follower compared ISIS to the KKK and I responded with facts. Saying I defend an organization that wants the death of all Jews is wrong. I am Jewish and so is my family.”

…Yet, some may wonder how it’s possible to respect Jameson’s public defense of Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right fellow traveler who was forced to resign in disgrace from his perch at Breitbart after video emerged of him defending hebephilia.
Jameson tells The Daily Beast that she does not condone Milo’s comments, but empathizes with him. “I think people were quick to judge and label him without realizing he was a victim of sexual abuse,” says Jameson. “Having been a victim myself, I know people can deal with the pain of victimization with callousness.”

The 42-year-old ex-porn star clearly appears happy to embrace the controversy of her alt-right views. She idolizes Ann Coulter (“I want to be her when I grow up”) and the illuminati-obsessed Paul Joseph Watson, has called Iran “a cancer,” regularly shares anti-Muslim scare stories, and even tweets anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros funding cabals of liberals (the irony is apparently lost on her). She even trolled Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who is a Muslim, into blocking her on Twitter—before declaring him “anti semetic” for doing so.

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Why Do American Jews Want Thousands of Jew Haters in America?

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager writes:

Last week, the Jerusalem Post and other news agencies reported that in a Paris suburb, two Jewish brothers wearing kippot (Jewish skullcaps) were attacked while driving their car by Middle Easterners driving another car.
According to a case report: “While the vehicle was in motion, the driver and a passenger shouted anti-Semitic slogans at the brothers that included ‘Dirty Jews, You’re going to die!’ … The vehicle forced the brothers to stop their car, and they were surrounded by several men … The men came out of a hookah cafe on to the side street … The alleged attackers surrounded the brothers, then kicked and punched them repeatedly while threatening that they would be murdered if they moved. One of the alleged attackers then sawed off the finger of one of the brothers.”
Attacks on Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe by Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, are so common that for the first time since World War II, Jews in France fear wearing a kippah or a Star of David in public. So many French Jews are leaving France that two years ago, then-Prime Minister Manuel Valls gave an impassioned speech pleading with French Jews to stay in France.
It has gotten so bad for Jews in Europe that The Atlantic, a liberal magazine, recently featured an article titled “Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?”
In Sweden, attacks on Jews in Malmo, the country’s third largest city, are so common that Jews are leaving the city and the country.
Last year, the Jerusalem Post published an article about a Jewish couple that had lived in Sweden since the middle of World War II. Dan and Karla (not their real names) are Danish Jews who were smuggled into Sweden as children. Their gratitude for Sweden has been immense.
But they have now left their homeland, the country that saved their lives, to live in Spain. They lived in Malmo. In Dan’s words, the immense saturation of Jew hatred in the city was caused by “the adverse effects of accepting half-a-million immigrants from the Middle East, who plainly weren’t interesting in adopting Sweden’s values and Swedish culture. … The politicians, the media, the intellectuals … they all played their parts in pandering to this dangerous ideology and, sadly, it’s changing the fabric of Swedish society irreversibly.”
The Post continued, saying, “Karla, who’d sat passively, occasionally nodding in agreement at Dan’s analysis, then interrupted, saying, ‘If you disagree with the establishment, you’re immediately called a racist or fascist.’” (Sound familiar?)
The British newspaper The Telegraph recently reported: “Jewish people in Malmo have long complained of growing harassment in the city, where 43 per cent of the population have a non-Swedish background, with Iraqis, Lebanese and stateless Palestinians some of the largest groups. The Jewish community centre in the city is heavily fortified, with security doors and bollards on the outside pavement to prevent car bombs.”
An article in the left-wing HuffingtonPost reached a now-familiar conclusion, saying: “Migrants streaming into Europe from the Middle East are bringing with them virulent anti-Semitism which is erupting from Scandinavia to France to Germany. … While all of the incoming refugees and migrants, fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim lands, may not hold anti-Jewish views, an extremely large number do — simply as a result to being raised in places where anti-Jewish vitriol is poured out in TV, newspapers, schools and mosques. … ‘There is no future for Jews in Europe’ said the chief Rabbi of Brussels.”
Yet, despite all this Muslim-immigrant Jew hatred, more than a thousand rabbis have signed a petition to bring large numbers of MENA Muslims into America, and virtually all Jewish organizations outside of orthodoxy and the Zionist Organization of America have condemned President Trump’s administration for enacting even a temporary travel ban (one due entirely to security concerns) on immigrants and refugees from seven (of the world’s more than 50) Muslim-majority countries.
How is one to explain the widespread American Jewish support for bringing in a massive number of people, many of whom will bring in anti-Jew, anti-Israel and anti-West values?
First, they are staggeringly naive believing, for example, that marching at airports with signs that read “We love Muslims” will change those Muslims who hate Jews into Muslims who love Jews.
Second, never underestimate the power of feeling good about yourself that exists on the left (the self-esteem movement originated on the left). And it feels very good for these Jews to say: “Look, world. You abandoned us in the 1930s, but we’re better than you.”
And third, when American Jews abandoned traditional liberal and traditional Jewish values for leftist values, they became less Jewish, less American and more foolish.

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Torah Talk: Parasha Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20–30:10)

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Luke Ford

Listen.

* This week’s Torah portion according to Wikipedia: “The parashah reports God’s commands to bring olive oil for the lamp, to make sacred garments for the priests, to conduct an ordination ceremony, and to make an incense altar.”

* The Sanctuary appealed to all five senses. Judaism has nothing like it today in creating a visceral and compelling road to God. Judaism is poorer for not having the Third Temple.

* Casey:

* “Splashing blood” as conferring authority & sacredness. Heart as the oldest metaphor. Russians as goy-resistance.

* We should do a re-write of Exodus where Aaron is a “questioning bisexual character.”

* This parasha is about the rituals and the priests who help people to get closer to God. What do you do to get closer to God? As an addict, you are either getting closer to God or getting closer to your disease. Do we still need priests?

* Every detail is prescribed to reduce the chances of Israel lapsing into paganism. You couldn’t bring in your own incense into the Sanctuary. That was a capital offense.

* There was no role for women to work in the Sanctuary because that would wreak havoc by creating sexual tension.

* The olive oil for the menorah must be pure “without any admixture of a foreign substance.” According to Artscroll: “This requirement of absolute purity is a fitting prelude to the selection of Aaron and his sons as Kohanim, for they, too, must remain pure and separate from the rest of the nation.” What about a goy nation’s population? Is it made stronger with substantial admixtures of foreign substances? Is a goy nation 99.4% pure white more of a threat to Jews than American goyim who are about 60% pure white?

* The Jewish priesthood is hereditary. It is genetic. Jewish priests have a distinctive genetic code. You can’t convert to being a priest nor can you be elected.

* A 2005 news article reported: 

"Likeness leads to liking," said the study's author, J. Philippe Rushton, professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario. "People have a need to identify and be with others like themselves ('their own kind'). It is a powerful force in human affairs."

Rushton anchored the human preference for similarity in the evolutionary psychology of altruism, which suggests that favoritism toward kin and similar others evolved to help replicate shared genes. In-group loyalty is almost always seen as a virtue and extension of family loyalty. This explains why ethnic remarks are so easily taken as "fighting words."

The paper described the group-identification processes as innate–part of the evolved machinery of the human mind. Even very young children make in-group/out-group distinctions about race and ethnicity in the absence of social learning.

Sociologist Linda S. Gottfredson wrote: "Humans are not promiscuous altruists, of course, but favor persons genetically similar to themselves."

Brenda Walker wrote: "We all prefer to be around others who speak our language, share our values and understand our jokes. Human community is based upon similarities, not differences. Wouldn’t it be better to develop public policy on the basis of human nature as it really is?"

Psychologist Richard Lynn said in 1989: "Racial and ethnic conflict is occurring throughout the world—between Blacks and Whites in the United States, South Africa, and Britain; Basques and Spaniards in Spain; and Irish and British in Northern Ireland. These conflicts have defied explanations by the disciplines of sociology, psychology, and economics…. genetic similarity theory represents a major advance in the understanding of these conflicts." (pg. 534)

American biologist E. Raymond Hall noted that "two subspecies of the same species do not occur in the same geographic area." This rule applies to people. "To imagine one subspecies of man living together on equal terms for long with another subspecies is but wishful thinking and leads only to disaster and oblivion for one or the other."

Psychologist Raymond Cattell said: "Whenever a nation has been forcibly put together from differing races, we find a social life unnecessarily disjointed, weak, and feverish. There are thousands of misunderstandings, produced by individuals working for different goals in different ways and at different speeds."

Dr. Phil Rushton found:

For Homo sapiens, inclusive fitness theory goes well beyond ‘kin’. As William Hamilton hypothesized, genes can increase the probability of their own survival by bringing about the reproduction of not only family members with whom they share copies, but also of any individuals with whom they share copies. Research with Hamilton’s theory on people is less well known and remains controversial. This review shows: (1) spouses and close friends assort on blood groups and that similarity predicts fertility; (2) twin and adoption studies find genes rather than upbringing cause people to positively assort; (3) phenotype matching is more pronounced on more heritable items within sets of homogeneous traits; (4) bereavement studies find grief is greater following the death of a more similar co-twin or child; (5) studies of face perception find people prefer and trust those who look like them; and (6) DNA variance within and between ethnic groups is equivalent to that within and between families.

Kin-selection theory predicts that animals increase their fitness by allocating more cooperation to kin than to non-kin. Hamilton (1964) showed that altruism (or, conversely, reduced aggression) is favored when rb – c > 0, where r is the genetic relatedness between two individuals, b is the (genetic) fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and c is the fitness cost to the altruist. However, to benefit kin over non-kin, altruists must be able to detect genetic relatedness. Mechanisms proposed for this to occur include familiarity, imprinting on self or others, and innate feature detectors that work in the absence of learning…

A study of 263 child bereavements found that: (1) spouses agreed 74% of the time on which side of the family a child ‘took after’ the most, their own or that of their spouse, and (2) the grief intensity reported by mothers, fathers, and grandparents was greater for children who resembled their side of the family than for children resembling the other side of the family…

Several studies have found that people rate faces as more attractive when they resemble their own. Platek et al. (2002) morphed people’s faces with those of toddlers and asked questions such as ‘Which one of these children would you like to spend time with?’ and ‘Which child would you adopt?’ People responded more positively toward children’s faces that had been morphed with their own. During debriefing, the participants expressed surprise that any morphing had occurred. DeBruine (2002) found people trusted a stranger’s face more when it had been morphed with their own than when it was left unchanged…

The pull of genetic similarity does not stop at family and friends. Malat & Hamilton (2006) found that people prefer same-race health providers and perceive them as more trustworthy. Putnam (2004) found that the more ethnically diverse a community, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust others, from nextdoor neighbours to local governments.

Inclusive fitness theory has been used to explain why members of ethnic groups move into the same neighbourhoods, join together in clubs and societies, and are prone to develop ethnocentric attitudes toward those who differ in dress, dialect, and other appearance…

In retrospect, it is not surprising that people are able to detect and prefer those who resemble themselves. Similarity, whether actual or perceived, is one of the most important factors in human relationships. It is more surprising to find just how fine-tuned the recognition process can be. The studies reviewed above show that the preference for similarity occurs within ethnic groups and within families and on the more heritable items from within sets of related traits.

In another paper, Rushton found:

Genetic Similarity Theory extends Anthony D. Smith’s theory of ethno-symbolism by anchoring ethnic nepotism in the evolutionary psychology of altruism. Altruism toward kin and similar others evolved in order to help replicate shared genes. Since ethnic groups are repositories of shared genes, xenophobia is the ‘dark side’ of human altruism. A review of the literature demonstrates the pull of genetic similarity in dyads such as marriage partners and friendships, and even large groups, both national and international. The evidence that genes incline people to prefer others who are genetically similar to themselves comes from studies of social assortment, differential heritabilities, the comparison of identical and fraternal twins, blood tests, and family bereavements. DNA sequencing studies confirm some origin myths and disconfirm others; they also show that in comparison to the total genetic variance around the world, random co-ethnics are related to each other on the order of first cousins.

Most theories of ethno-political conflict and nationalism focus on cultural, cognitive and economic factors, often with the assumption that modernisation will gradually reduce the effect of local antagonisms and promote the growth of more universalistic societies (Smith 1998). However, purely socio-economic explanations seem inadequate to account for the rapid rise of nationalism in the former Soviet Bloc and too weak to explain the lethality of the conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs in the Indian subcontinent, and Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia, or even the level of animosity between Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in the US…

Patriotism is almost always seen as a virtue and extension of family loyalty and is typically preached using kinship terms. Countries are called the ‘motherland’ or the ‘fatherland’. Ethnic identity builds on real as well as putative similarity. At the core of human nature, people are genetically motivated to prefer others genetically similar to themselves…

In 1964, evolutionary biologist William Hamilton finally provided a generally accepted solution to the problem of altruism based on the concept of inclusive fitness, not just individual fitness. It is the genes that survive and are passed on. Some of the individual’s most distinctive genes will be found in siblings, nephews, cousins and grandchildren as well as in offspring. Siblings share fifty per cent, nephews and nieces twenty-five per cent, and cousins about twelve and a half per cent of their distinctive genes. So when an altruist sacrifices its life for its kin, it ensures the survival of these common genes. The vehicle has been sacrificed to preserve copies of its precious cargo. From an evolutionary point of view, an individual organism is only a vehicle, part of an elaborate device, which ensures the survival and reproduction of genes with the least possible biochemical alteration.

‘Hamilton’s Rule’ states that across all species, altruism (or, conversely, reduced aggression) is favoured when rbc40, where r is the genetic relatedness between two individuals, b is the (genetic) fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and c is the fitness cost to the altruist. Evolutionary biologists have used Hamilton’s ‘gene’s eye’ point of view to carry out research on a wide range of social interactions including altruism, aggression, selfishness and spite. The formulation was dubbed ‘kin selection theory’ by John Maynard Smith (1964) and became widely known through influential books such as The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976) and Sociobiology: the New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson (1975).

* Reading Mark Twain’s 1899 essay “Concerning the Jews,” I wax nostalgic for the free speech of that time. People felt free to engage in stereotypes, even negative ones.

Mark Twain: “By his make and ways he is substantially a foreigner wherever he may be, and even the angels dislike a foreigner.”

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Jenna Jameson Converts To Orthodox Judaism?

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

From Wikipedia:

In November 2004, Jameson was diagnosed with skin cancer. Though surgery removed it, she miscarried shortly after the diagnosis. She was unable to conceive again with Grdina, even with in vitro fertilization. Jameson said the in vitro process “wasn’t a good thing for me”; she gained weight and did not get pregnant. According to Jameson, the stresses of the cancer plus infertility led to her marriage’s collapse.[142] In August 2006, Star magazine and TMZ.com confirmed with Jameson’s publicist that she and Grdina had separated.[143][144]

In October 2006, it was reported that Jameson began dating mixed martial artist and former UFC champion Tito Ortiz,[145] whom she met on Myspace.[146] Ortiz canceled a November 12, 2006 appearance as the guest of honor at the United States Marine Corps birthday ball at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, when the Corps refused to let him bring Jameson as his guest.[147][148] On November 30, 2006, in an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Ortiz stated that he was in love with Jameson, that she was no longer acting in pornography, and that they were in a monogamous relationship.[149] On December 12, 2006, Jameson filed for divorce from Grdina.[150] She introduced Ortiz and talked about their relationship at the 2008 AVN Adult Movie Awards while she was presenting an award. She also made brief appearances on two episodes of The Celebrity Apprentice to help Ortiz on the tasks assigned in those episodes.

Jameson announced in August 2008 that she and Ortiz were expecting twins in April 2009.[151] On March 16, 2009, Jameson gave birth to twin boys, Jesse Jameson and Journey Jette.[152][153] Jameson and Ortiz split up in March 2013. Ortiz was granted full custody of the twins.[154]

Jameson’s father, Laurence Henry Massoli, died on October 2, 2010, after suffering complications from triple bypass surgery.[155][156]

As of 2014, Jameson has undergone extensive tattooing, almost completely covering both of her arms in sleeve tattoos.[157] In 2013, self-proclaimed socialite and writer Britney Markham became Jameson’s personal assistant after having met on Twitter. In a 2014 interview with LA Weekly, Markham claimed that Jameson would make requests for drugs. Markham posited that the pills of choice were Xanax, Ambien and Suboxone along with alcohol. At the same time, Markham denied that Jameson had been taking Oxycodone, in spite of previous rumors. Markham stated that she was assaulted and battered by Jameson following an incident in a hair salon in Los Angeles in 2013 when Jameson punched Markham in the stomach with a brass knuckles iPhone case. The blow was so severe, Markham claims she vomited blood and was hospitalized.[157]

On August 5, 2016, Jameson announced that she and her Israeli boyfriend, Lior Bitton, were expecting their first child together.[158]

On November 11, 2016, Jameson announced on her Twitter feed that she completed her conversion to Orthodox Judaism with a Haredi rabbinical court in Upstate New York. Having been raised Catholic,[18] in June 2015, Jameson announced that she was converting to Judaism, in order to marry Bitton.[159][160] In October, an Israel Channel 2 reality television series was announced, which would document Jameson’s conversion.[161]

Political views
After viewing undercover videos of chicken production, Jameson agreed to do a short video for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as part of the group’s campaign against KFC’s treatment of chickens.[162]

Jameson supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2008 United States presidential election,[163][164] but Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 United States presidential election, stating: “I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office. When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.”[165] In late November 2015, Jenna made multiple tweets showing support for Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.[166]

Legal issues
On April 26, 2010, Ortiz was arrested for felony domestic abuse at the couple’s Huntington Beach, California home.[167] Jameson was photographed afterward that day with a bandaged arm,[167] amid accusations by both parties against each other, with Ortiz accusing Jameson of being erratic and addicted to OxyContin, while she alleged that he was abusive. Since the incident occurred, both parties have recanted these allegations that were made toward one another, though as of April 29, 2010, the investigation by the police department remained open.[168]

On May 25, 2012, Jameson was arrested in Westminster, California and charged with three misdemeanor counts for driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, driving with a blood-alcohol level over the state legal limit, and driving on a suspended license after her Range Rover struck a light pole. She initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, but later changed her plea to guilty. She was sentenced to three years of informal probation, ordered to pay $340 in fines, and participate in a Mothers Against Drunk Driving victims’ impact panel. The charge for driving without a valid license was dismissed.

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“Riz Ahmed Warns Lack of Diversity on TV Will Drive Young to ISIS”

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comment at Steve Sailer:

* I believe you’re underselling Mr. Ahmed. In his “Girls” role, he had to play a popular surfing teacher/DJ in the Hamptons. That was the easy part. The harder part was he also had to feign sexual attraction to the star/writer/director of the show. He also had to utter the words (not joking) “Man, that’s a lot of p***y hair down there.” (Like Lion of the Blogosphere, I watch so you don’t have to.) I say give him his Emmy now

* How sad – he clearly is just frustrated that the UK movie industry is too small to make use of only average talent with non-British features, so he doesn’t have the career he feels entitled to. So he has to go full “ISIS” in his explanation – the trouble being, you never go full ISIS if you want people to believe you.

* Yes, rent-seeking — and extortion. As in, “if you don’t put us in your shows, we’ll blow your legs off and leave your people bloody and screaming in your streets at random intervals.”

Translated even further, every group of people essentially threatens every other with destruction if they don’t get living space and the chance to impose their will.

People suck, and we all need our own cell walls and sovereign organs in Earth’s body in which to perform our functions. That’s called nationalism, and its the best.
i.e. “Good fences make good neighbors, so get the hell off my lawn!”

* We often hear this argument. Because of X (travel ban, desecration of the Koran, not being hired to play James Bond, etc.) many muslims will become terrorists. Therefore we ought not to do X.

It seems to me a more rational argument would be: Anybody who might become a terrorist because of X is not somebody we want in our country.

* You know, if I were a member of an immigrant group that dragged on my host society so much that even though it was still relatively minor in size and hadn’t been present in any serious numbers before man walked on the moon, that being on television in proportion with my groups size and importance would cause me to immediately become a jihadi sympathiser, I’d be, like, apologetic or something. Yet this guy and all the others never are.

I guess Trump is gunna cause a wave of Mexican and East Asian terrorism. What with his harsh language and relative lack of those groups on US TV. There can’t be any other component to this alleged phenomenon.

Also I like how Riz Ahmed doesn’t get that all his success is down to being a Pathan in the West. He’d never get much work if he was his white equivalent or trying to work in Pakistan or India. That he doesn’t get it is just too good. Indeed, just like Diego Luna, it is the problems of this group and their drain and subsequent generation of resentment that propels him (The Pakistani underclass doesn’t furnish a lot of talented thespians, there isn’t a lot of good Hispanic talent either, judging from the quality of Hispanic actors on US productions.) in a Hollywood desperate to score diversity points.

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Conservative Values

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Luke Ford

(JTA) — The Jewish Theological Seminary joined other Jewish Conservative groups in a U.S. Supreme Court appeal against a presidential move that allows schools to decide who may enter gender-segregated bathrooms.

On Thursday, JTA wrote in a statement that it has joined an amicus brief designed to uphold the “rights of transgender students to use public school restrooms consistent with their gender identity.”

The March 2 appeal follows the decision last month by the administration of President Donald Trump to roll back guidelines issued by his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordering schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their perceived gender identities.

“JTS is compelled to act in the face of state and federal actions which undermine the Jewish principle of human dignity,” the organization wrote in the statement about its joining the amicus brief.

Other signatory bodies include the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and College, and several Christian bodies including the Unitarian Universalist Association and the General Synod of the United Church of Christ.

“In the Jewish tradition, public humiliation is tantamount to bloodshed,” JTA Chancellor Arnold Eisen wrote in the statement. “We will not stand idly by the blood of our fellow human beings. Laws such as the one at issue in the Supreme Court case have the effect, if not the purpose, of publicly humiliating transgender students by refusing them access to facilities consistent with their gender identities.”

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