Mishegas

So Much To Blog, So Little Time

  • A Boston federation study shows that 60% of Interfaith couples raise their kids Jewish. Another study, conducted by an independent Interfaith family support organization, shows that 99% of Interfaith families plan on lighting a menorah at home this holiday season, while only 44% plan on having Christmas trees. Take that continuity agendists!
  • While we’re on the subject of new research, a clinical study has demonstrated there to be a direct link between mental illness and support for George W. Bush. Take that continuity agendists! (Oh, come on– we all know the same people committing endless funding against Jewish miscegenation are the same ones who voted for Bush!)
  • On that note, Time magazine assesses Bush’s “Five Fatal Mistakes” on Middle East policy.
  • At their major conference last week in Israel, members of The Orthodox Union voted give the organization power to issue statements condemning Israel for not being right-wing enough.
  • A shonde for the goyim: Orthodox Rabbi/diamond merchant busted by CBS for pretending to be a city official in order to evade traffic. Via DovBear.
  • The difference, they’ll argue, is that when Arabs destroy a Jewish holy site, it’s because they hate Jews. When Jews destroy a Muslim holy site, it’s to fight terror.
  • The Philideplhia Inquirer has a piece on “the ninjas,” a.k.a. the unit of the Israeli police force that bears too much resemblance, in form and function, to secret police of days past for my comfort.
  • Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski has shifted gears, putting aside a controversial development project and instead coddling its environmentalist opponents.
  • “Ahmed Fatfat is a Jew.”
  • Edwin Black, author of IBM & The Holocaust, War Against The Weak, and The Transfer Agreement, brings to light General Motors’ involvement in the Shoah. Parts one and two.
  • Major US sports venues will begin offering kosher concessions.
  • A Holocaust revisionist website has made almost every submission to the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest available online here.
  • Norman Berdichevsky presents the thesis that the Jewish “golden age” under Islam is a myth, and that our Spanish renaissance actually took place under the Christians ruling the northern Iberian provinces.

8 thoughts on “So Much To Blog, So Little Time

  1. “A Boston federation study shows that 60% of Interfaith couples raise their kids Jewish. Another study, conducted by an independent Interfaith family support organization, shows that 99% of Interfaith families plan on lighting a menorah at home this holiday season, while only 44% plan on having Christmas trees. Take that continuity agendists!”
    this is great and all, and certainly consistent with my experience as a half-Jew, but it all depends what your definition of continuity is… as soon as my Jewish father married my goyishe mother, he kinda ensured that his children would not be considered Jewish by traditional Jews, no matter how we were raised, right?

  2. Jordan, you can always convert.
    About the last subject. Sometime it seems that no matter how many present day Jews are murdered by present day muslims, the Jews will always speak fondly of Cordoba. Get over it people!

  3. man those Ninja cops are on some scary schitt. when I lived in Jerusalem and they would roll by on those bikes I’d be like WTF state is this? felt like thwy were gonna snatch my ass off the street at any moment, despite that I hadn’t done anything wrong. “keep an eye out for Jakes.”

  4. 1. rootlesscosmo: Uh… did they ever in fact snatch your ass ooff the street “despite that you hadn’t done anything wrong?” Did they ever snatch anyone’s ass off the street that you know? I live in Jerusalem and all I’ve ever seen them do was break up a fight in Kikar Tziyon. So they dress ominously and they are scary. I want terrorists to be scared of them!
    2. As for the Jewish destruction of a holy site, well… when Jews start using Hooly sites as cover for armed attacks we can talk. Lets not forget the actions of the Waqf on the Temple Mount either. Why do Jews need to be more politically correct than anyone else? It’s not like Hamas gunmen are universally adored on their own turf either – here’s a quote from the article you cited:

    ‘I am against them (Hamas gunmen). No one wants them here. They come and fire rockets and we just know there will be problems,’ said Sheikh al-Shabat, 42, who teaches at the local university.

    Oh well.

  5. “Why do Jews need to be more politically correct than anyone else?”
    oh i dunno… i thought we were an ohr l’goyim or something, forbidden to act like other nations, else considered to have turned away from g-d.
    but hey–it’s all bullshit anyway, right?

  6. Berdichevsky’s article lacks merit, speaking from the point of view of historical scholarship. If somebody feels like challenging me I’ll list my sources and whatnot, but you should be able to tell just from the fact that he devotes one paragraph to each issue and frames the entire thing in terms of present-day polemical concerns.

  7. Well Mobius, I guess it’s a question of degree I suppose. Or La Goyim is an interesting concept, and yes we ought to conduct ourselves in a manner that inspires respect etc. But there’s nothing in the concept of Or La Goyim that requires Jews to be suicidal, or to not defend ourselves against enemies bent on our destruction. That’s not admirable at all – it’s stupid. We’re not Christians after all, we do not need to turn the other cheek. A rodeph needs to be treated in a way commesurate with his murderous intent, and that’s how God wants us to behave, regardless of Or La Goyim. Ask your chavrutah about that if you like.

  8. ck,
    Isn’t it time, after centuries of European Christian tyranny and the emergence of a Christian theocratic movement in the US represented by a President with a bloodlust unseen in generations, to dispense with the myth that Christians believe in “turning the other cheek”?

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