Bernie and I are Jewish. Our history has a lesson for this campaign In Judaism, the “bible” Christians use is just a collection of our history books. My Christian friends should go back and read about our Judges and Kings. Read also about the נביאים .. the prophets. Isaiah, Jerem[...]
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February 26th, 2020 - 11:05 pm § in Christianity, Jews
I try, perhaps with a bit of sarcasm, to post facts. Bernie strikes me as a prophet but prophets make lousy kings!
February 8th, 2020 - 11:22 am § in Christianity, Jews
No, the “hebrew bible” is not the Jewish bible.
Christians like to see their translation of the Torah and the rest of their selected Jewish writings as the word of Jesus. Jesus aside, in Judaism there is only one revelation .. the Torah. Whatever you think of the rest of the old Jewish writings collected as the story of our judges, kings, and[...]
February 7th, 2020 - 9:02 am § in Israel/Palestine, Jews
Iran’s Peace Plan for Palestine
Iran’s proposal is for a referendum among all the people who claim an identity as Palestinian. The wrinkle here is who would be included .. refugees living today in a Palestinian diaspora? Jews outside of Israel? Nonetheless it is worth a discussion! [...]
TRUMP’S SHYSTERS
As a very proud Jew, I am upset when “my” people are described in racist terms. One of these terns is”shyster”… a word for Jewish lawyers. The New York Observer .. once owned by Jared Kushner (a goniff in his own right) …complained about the National Review’s [...]
Who Controls Hollywood?
Joel Stein, LA Times: 2008 I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these n[...]
FAREED ZAKARIA: An objective analysis of what just happened
Fareed: The Soleimani Strike Was Trump’s Michael Corleone Moment “‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Michael Corleone’s lament in The Godfather Part III, about never being able to escape his family business of crime, could well be said about America’s entangl[...]
January 6th, 2020 - 1:06 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Jews, Politics, Saudi Arabia
Soleimeni Biography
FROM WIKIPEDIA AND OTHER SOURCES: Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, pronounced [ɢɒːˌsem(e) solejmɒːˈniː] The gory image of Iran’s hero comes from three sources .., Sunni Arabs, Israelis, and Americans. Sunni arabs today live in chaos. Where there is order, it [...]
Israel is Losing the Battle of the Schools and Its Soul
The Zionist dream was that Israel would be a normal nation .. with farmers and doctors, engineers, whores, garbage collectors, and soldiers. To make that dream happen the Zionists irrigated the land, made the desert bloom with communal farms, planted orange groves and olive trees, and built hosp[...]
December 3rd, 2019 - 10:47 am § in Jews, Saudi Arabia
Scoop: U.S. pushing Arab states for non-belligerence pacts with Israel
Barak Ravid of Israel’s Channel 13 news is reporting that the Trump administration is trying to lubricate the impasse between Israel and its neighbors by encouraging an aggression pacts as a step to peace. Israeli, Arab and U.S. sources tell Mr. Ravid that President Trump’s deputy national s[...]
No, I am neither Dem nor Rep
I am neither a democrat or a republican. I base my politics on the ideals and ideas of two Americans .. Jefferson and King. They defined .. for me .. America in terms of opportunity. I judge political ideas by whether they promote equal opportunity for Americans but also for all humans. I also u[...]