Only deceptive Orthodox proselytizing is acceptable Matzav reports in “Yad L’Achim Uncovers Missionary Center in Heart of Tel Aviv ,” In their internal publications, the missionaries openly acknowledge the real purpose behind the facility, known as the Gospel Café. Read More »
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Semitism
Guy White has begun a new blog called “Semitism .” Read More »
A Zionist Loses His Way
It is with great sadness and no small bit of shock that I am forced to report that grandmuffti, a formerly secular writer on the Zionist site Jewlicious, has renounced secularism to run away to the Dark Light . Read More »
JCUA Calls for Amnesty for Illegals With or Without Congress
As they say, Jane Ramsay, the executive director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affiars (JCUA) writes , Comprehensive Immigration Reform is no longer a political idea that has been shuffled around the halls of Congress but a necessity for our ever growing and evolving nation. Read More »
Five years of this blogging nonsense
I began blogging five years ago because I hadn’t found a place in the Jewish world where I felt at home. Well…I still haven’t. But I also outlined issues of specific concern that I wanted to address, investigate…challenge. In my second post, I already addressed immigration as part of a screed against Neocons (this was five years ago). Read More »
The medical need for diversity
I am not a doctor, so I can’t quantify for you the importance of diversity when it comes to healing a patient. But apparently, diversity of medical staff is paramount. Certainly more important than MCAT scores. Read More »
Ohr Somayach Defends Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Segregation
First of all, as most of you are probably aware, the whole media circus over keeping the Mizrahim out of the haredi school system was a red herring by the secular to distract from their own failings and because they just hate frum people. Read More »
It’s always sad…
When the big shot of the anti-haredi organization, like say, the loathsome Edah Haredis, gets caught on video watching internet porn. Well..at at least he wasn’t reading blogs! Failed Messiah breaks the story . Unbridled schadenfreude ensues in the comments section. Read More »
Introducing Treif Bike Gasheft Radio
Please join myself, Baruch Hertzfeld, and Lori Gross for our weekly radio program, Treif Bike Gasheft Radio, between 5 and 7pm NYC time, on Newtown Radio . This week’s show includes an interview with Marvin Anderson, a recent addition to the NY Times who is documenting a homeless shelter for runaway transgendered youths. Read More »
How the haredi references Christians
This Ohr Somayach loving person, Rabbi Mordechai, demonstrates how annoying a True Fahfrumteh Yid must be through calling Christians “Xstians. Read More »
How to not treat a friend and ally
Not just a friend and ally, but a hero Note to The Zionists , Miriam Shaviv hath spoken. You are not to ally yourselves with the Israel-loving Geert Wilders . Granted, he is sincere. Shaviv recognizes that, Wilders’s affection for Israel seems to be sincere. Read More »
Jews start emphasizing mass transit
This is pretty obvious stuff, but it’s good to see Jews getting on board. The Jewish Journal writes , Transit in Los Angeles must now be put on top of the Jewish community agenda. Read More »
How many American Jews are politically correct?
According to Dr. Stephen Steinlight, the amount of politically correct Jews is 17%, or just under one million. But that’s enough to wield all of the power . Out of some 6 million American Jews, it would be generous to posit as many as 200,000-250,000 belong to secular communal organizations. Read More »
Reb Leibish on the peculiar practice of Shechitah (and gentile reaction)
Reb Leibish notes , Shecitah is extremely controversial within non-Jewish society. Non-Jews are not that bothered by the fact that the Kosher meat industry is as big a scam as the television evangelical movement praying on superstition and delusional neuroses. Read More »
There is a bigger kashrut problem here
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that Matzav might not have taken that picture of the pizza themselves. Call it a hunch, but I don’t think so. There night be bigger problems with the pizza being depicted on Matzav (from a halachic perspective) than whether or nor it is from a second pizzeria. Read More »
Rubashkin’s haredi supporters, understand this…
Ethically Challenged? …you have declined to do any significant cheshbon despite wave after wave of criminal activity exposed. Read More »
The baal teshuvah while the frum sit on their fahrumpteh asses and “loyn”
As you can see, it’s not about recruiting them for the Israeli army. Big Aish would not lie straight to your face. The Gedoylim have clearly spoken, because Aish has joined Ohr Somayach and NCSY in recruiting American Jews to fill military positions in Israel that that the haredim will not . Read More »
27 Years is Too Severe a Sentence
I am glad that the scumbag Rubashkin is going to jail for his crimes, and I am angry and disgusted at the right-wing Orthodox community for making this criminal a hero. This says a lot about you heimeshes . It says you are not good Americans. And you are not good Americans. You are not good citizens. Read More »
Solidarity with Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs)
The problem of a monopoly by Paypal (parent company Ebay) has reached new heights with the politically motivated selection of Atlas for destruction . Read More »
Another NCSY “From Public School to Haredi ‘Success’ Story”
Ohr Somayach is sending the baal teshuvahs to the haredi division of the Israeli army — in lieu of their own FFB (haredi from birth) sons and daughters. Just like in Czarist Russia, the Kehilla leadership is sending other, lower ranking Jews to fill their quotas. Read More »
Y-Love and the True Crossover Jews
Sharon Udasin has a great article , “‘PunkJews’ Get Their 15 Minutes,” in the Jewish Week about yet another Chulent move to the big screen. I was particularly touched by this. Read More »
OTD discusses why he left Orthodox Judaism
OTD discusses leaving Orthodox Judaism on “You, Me & Religion.” I have received a lot of anger and criticism from theists online for not believing in God. Read More »
What you are supporting when you buy an OU product
Rabbi Steven Weill reminds us that when we buy an OU supervised product, we are helping to turn secular and Liberal Jews into Orthodox Jews and even into ultra-Orthodox robots. Read More »
Circumcision process linked to increased urinary tract infections
Why oh why are there all these problems when removing “just a little piece of skin?” JPost writes , The long-time practice by Israeli ritual circumcisers (mohelim) of using gauze for as long as 26 hours to stop penile bleeding is responsible for Read More »
Aish Rabbi in Jerusalem Suggests U.S. Absorb Immigrants
I realize that many of you have doubts about mass immigration, but Rabbi Asher Meir hath spoken on Aish.com . My personal feeling is that in the United States today most communities are not facing any special danger from immigrants and efforts should be made to accommodate reasonable numbers of them. Read More »
Robert Lindsay explains antipathy of Thomas towards Israel
Robert Lindsay answers the questions I have had for the past few days in “Where Helen Thomas is Coming From .” In the early days of the Lebanon War of 1982, the first suicide bombers were often Leftists, often Lebanese Christians, typically Greek Orthodox, from parties like the SSNP. Read More »
Guess who? (In Spain)
The JTA reports , “Madrid protesters attack Israeli businessmen.” How many? “About 200 students threw stones at the Israelis, chanted “Murderers,” and broke the window of the police car that they took refuge in, according to reports. Read More »
Abe Foxman Wants a Soviet Style Apology
The self-proclaimed leader of American Jewry is all about measuring and determining whether an apology for an anti-Jewish statement is sufficient or not. I have a simple suggestion for American Jewry on the Helen Thomas debacle. Let it go. There is nothing to be gained by haranguing this old woman. But Foxman does not let things go. Read More »
HIAS Philadelphia: Jews should side with “outsiders”
One of the major questions asked of the organized Jewish community is, “Why do you consistently side with illegals against your own countrymen?” All too often, it appears that past grievances, not professed compassion, are motivating the organized Jewish community. But you be the judge. Read More »
Ohr Somayach’s Leader Speaks on Flotilla
International Uproar a Punishment for “Disparaging” the Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, co-founder of the Teshuvah Revolution, explains why bad things are really happening to the Jewish state . Read More »
Too wretched even for Emma Lazarus
I recently read “Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews ,” a book we are going to discuss in much more detail over time. But I wanted to share something from the book about a woman often referenced by the open borders movement, Emma Lazarus, the Jewish author of The New Colossus. Read More »
I would give Rabbi Mendel Weinbach’s right arm to be an FFB
Like most of you, I am very jealous of FFBs ( Frum , or Orthodox, From Birth). If I would have been FFB, I could have been an accountant, a lawyer, or, if I was very FFB, not work any job at all. Some people wish they were FFB so that they could pretend to have been shomer negiah before they got married at age 27. Read More »
Did you hear the one about the haredim calling the Messianics cult-like?
Jews for Judaism asks , Is “Jews for Jesus” a cult? Their answer is: Most Hebrew/Christian groups, like Jews for Jesus, do not fit the specific definitions of cults. However, many of them use cult-like tactics in their recruitment. Read More »
Haredim and Messianic Jews should be treated the same way
They will pretend to be ecumenical, and we will pretend to believe them It’s amazing to me how vicious our community is to Messianic Jews , even as they tolerate haredim. The truth is, the haredim are much more of a spiritual threat to our community than the Messianic Jews, and they are equally historically revisionist. Read More »
Really Wonderful News
While the Middle East may be having problems, things definitely are on the up and up here. They sure are. You know why? Because “Muslim-Jewish engagement is growing in the United States .” So don’t worry that the domestic terrorist threat is also growing. A lot . Because engagement is growing. And that’s what matters most. Read More »
An overt example of how Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff of the JEC (Jewish Enrichment Center) downplays his
On his OU bio, Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff of the JEC writes , Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff is originally from London, England. He graduated with honors from Manchester University in England, in political science. Read More »
More on the JEC’s Ohr Somayach connection
As man of you may recall, I helped uncover proof of the JEC and Ohr Somayach’s relationship last year. Now, Michael Steinhardt has lashed out in defense of his Kiruv professionals at the JEC, and denial about the goals they harbor . Read More »
Interviewed by Alef
Alef is publishing a whole series on kvetching, so … Read More »
Big Aish: Just trying to help people out of the web of Christianity
I love this line . For her part, Penina has devoted her life to helping Jews caught in the web of Christianity find their way out. In that sense, perhaps we have a lot in common. Read More »
Snuff for the Demon
In regards to, “A plan to build a Muslim community center and mosque near the site of the September 11 terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan,” Josh Nathan-Kazis notes the following concern : One person, who asked not to be identified because he is involved in interfaith affairs, said he was opposed on other grounds. Read More »
Eli Valley’s Sociologist For Hire
Is there punishment in the Jewish world for saying something different than what the establishment wants to hear? And is Valley moving towards a more graphic novel format? Read More »
Ohr Somayach explains that the haredim are the True Victims (as well as the Torah True …
Dark Light notes an important issue, and one I have been trying to get you godless bastards to understand for years. The true victims of Orthodox violence are the Orthodox. Read More »
Aish disseminates soap lie
Nizkor notes , we know that human soap was not made at Auschwitz. In discussing soap taken from Auschwitz, Michael Berenbaum explained that “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tested several bars of soap reported to be composed of human fat but no such fat was found. Read More »
Should the SPLC return the Madoff profits?
Patrick Cleburne argues yes . Madoff left many destitute elderly in his wake . The $PLC should return its Picower money to the Madoff trustee for their benefit. Read More »
Is the ADL being inconsistent on diversity?
The ADL has denounced Patrick Buchanan for questioning Kagan’s nomination, noting , Kagan’s nomination for the Supreme Court should be considered on its merits. That sounds reasonable in and of itself. But the ADL’s positions are a bit different when it isn’t a Jewish candidate in question. Read More »
Naaseh Versus Nishma
First published May 21, 2007. Most comments were lost in the site transfer. As many of you know, legend has it the Jews all stood at Mt. Sinai to accept the Torah, and said, “Naaseh v’ Nishma”: we will do, and then (often understood to mean only then) we will listen–and try to understand. Read More »
And there’s the disconnect
On why the holiday of Shavous is not celebrated by American Jewry, the haredi apologist Yonason Rosenblum writes , For non-religious Jews, who do not believe in Ma’amad Har Sinai as an actual historical event, the day has no such significance. Read More »
How is this happening?
Our friends As I hope many of you realize, the real victims of 9/11 are the Muslims. Yes, they sure are. And the Jewish community needs to help. More specifically, the Jewish community needs to help them immigrate to the U.S. And that’s where the JCUA is such a useful organization. Read More »
What if…
What if we changed the ADL mission statement… The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. …to this. Read More »
Now that’s an idea!
The ICGI writes , The AAP’s new statement suggests that female circumcision be replaced with a pinprick. ICGI would consider removing its objection to it if the AAP were to also suggest replacing male circumcision with a pinprick. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and the AAP prides itself on not being sexist. Read More »
Former NYC Mayor Speaks Out Against Amnesty
We could use a leader like Koch today Our beloved former mayor, Ed Koch, pointed out the absurdity (dishonesty?) of those who claim amnesty will solve our illegal immigration woes. Read More »
Zionists Force Innocent Woman to Accept Plea Bargain
In what can only be called a travesty of justice, the evil Zionists in Israel have forced a plea bargain upon a woman unjustly accused of starving her children. This plea bargain was accepted despite the insistence of our rabbis to stay strong and resist the false accusations of the Zionists. Read More »
Dark Light’s Vision
You may read the whole essay of Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, the leader of Dark Light, but the title says it all. Read More »
Breaking News!: Israeli Gadol Backs Hershel Herskowitz for a seat on Lakewood’s Township Committee
I usually don’t get involved with NJ local politics since I live in NY, but there have been some unfortunate rumors lately about which candidate Rabbi Shteinman of B’nai Brak, Israel supports, and I feel a communal obligation to set the record straight. Matzav reports , Hershel Herskowitz[… Read More »
Another heartwarming baal teshuvah success story story
One of the great things about the Teshuvah Revolution is that it helps people self-actualize. It sure does! Provided that by “self-actualize,” we mean “learn to waste away. Read More »
A question for liberal Jewish readers
Much of the Jewish reaction to Elena Kagan’s nomination seems to be like the Jewish Journal’s . Elena Kagan would make it three—three women and three Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its history. What a revealing absurdity, equating the number of Jews with the number of women on the Supreme Court. Read More »
A drawback with all the Abrahamatic faiths…
…is that they all demand a belief in the afterlife. In the Next World. This takes the focus away from appreciating life. Judaism specifically seeks to severely limit engagement with this world in response to the belief. Read More »
Teaching the baal teshvah to lionize the ultra-Orthodox criminal
The baal teshvah/ben niddah has so much to relearn when he moves into the ultra-Orthodox world. True Jew morality is often the opposite of secular society! For instance, someone who we may revile as criminal in the secular world will often be considered a hero in the ultra-Orthodox world, if–and only if–he happens to be a heimeshe. Read More »
Not just immigrants
Jenny, a frequent commenter to this blog, is of Native American descent, and writes that , While Chinese immigrants were given dirty work, so were Irish and other immigrants, as well as American citizens of the day, white and black. Read More »
Abe Foxman Compares Immigration Restrictionists to Nazis
It’s okay if he does it. We are seeing these offensive and inappropriate Nazi and Holocaust comparisons come to the fore in the public debate once again. We saw it in the health care debate, and now we are seeing it with Arizona. Read More »
