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  1. jbg

    People Love Helpless Jews (to paraphrase a book title, People Love Dead Jews) - Jews that fight back, not so much

    A while ago I read People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn. The book's premise is that dead Jews, i.e. Holocaust victims (Anne Frank in particular) and other similar people are a lot more popular than actual, identifiable living Jews. The author writes a lengthy...
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    400th Anniversary of NYC's purchase from Indians - Can We Celebrarte or Must We Mourn (for whatever

    A while ago, I read an excellent book, The Island at the Center of the World::The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto. In today’s New York Times, the author penned an article about the same subject (link), this time focusing on its...
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    School, NYPD 'cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety - Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave Campus

    Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave campus, warns that school, NYPD 'cannot guarantee your safety' (link): Rabbin Buecher appears to be a responsible, middle-of-the-road Rabbi. Are pogroms, or a Hamas-style attack on the way? Columbia and the NYPD appear to be hitting the "protesting"...
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    Members of Lev Tahor Chasidic Cult on trial for Kidnapping and child exploitation plot

    Chasidic cult life on trial, read Life inside Lev Tahor, leaders' alleged plot to kidnap 2 children detailed by witness (link). Excerpts below: I suppose some like to live life as it was in medieval Poland. This is supposed to be a country where people are free.
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    How did Jews in the holy land worship when they could not get to the Temple?

    How did Jews in the holy land worship when they could not get to the Temple? During the days of the Jews lived in the holy land, both before 586 BCE, and after Cyrus allowed the Jews to return, most shoes did not live within a close radius of Jerusalem. In fact, the most fertile parts of that...
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    How did Jews in the holy land worship when they could not get to the Temple?

    How did Jews in the holy land worship when they could not get to the Temple? During the days of the Jews lived in the holy land, both before 586 BCE, and after Cyrus allowed the Jews to return, most shoes did not live within a close radius of Jerusalem. In fact, the most fertile parts of that...
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    Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) - Anyone know of this?

    This is a somewhat difficult post to write, and I am not sure it is in the right place. I am informed that most of the cases of this arise at over age 65, so I picked Retirement. On January 20, 2024 I suffered a significant attack of Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (embedded link). When I...
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    Return to Natural, Edenic Paradise? Not So Fast, even in "protected" areas

    Can we, even in National Parks and wilderness areas, restore a pre-(white man) settlement Eden in the New World? I don't think so. I recently finished reading The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator’s Struggle to Survive in the American West by Eli Francovich. This book focuses on unique...
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    Non-Literature, Non-Art, Non-Music - Theater of the Absurd

    During the periods following WW I and WW II, various absurdist "art" forms evolved, that were, by design, utterly pointless. There were books such as Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Gripping it is not. I suppose it is one of the better of the "theater of the absurd" that became popular in...
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    Hebrew and Religious School Decorum, 1970 vs. 2023, Ages 13 v. 66

    I don't know if this belongs here, or in one of the non-religious sections. Feel free to move this thread. This morning, I lead "Torah Study," roughly the equivalent of Bible study. There were about twenty adults, ranging from about 55 to people in their 80's, in attendance. I was the lay...
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    Who Prescribes Fentanyl & Other Deadly Recreational Drugs and Why Do They Get Away With It?

    Someone asked an interesting question: who prescribes Fentanyl and other deadly recreational drugs and why do they get away with it? All the time people are hospitalized as a result of OD'ing on Fentanyl and other deadly recreational drugs, involved in accidents or otherwise. A good question...
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    Hotel California Redoux - Another 1979-like Right Wing Shift?

    As the Eagles said, we haven’t had the spirit here since 1979, when the U.S. lurched from the liberalism of the New Deal and Kennedy eras, to Jimmy Carter, towards Ronald Reagan's landslide election. Several storm flags are flying: In synagogue tonight, my Rabbi, generally a woke liberal, was...
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    Israeli Duty to Warn? What unmitigated gall (chutzpah)

    Hamas, unprovoked and without warning, attacked Israel on Saturday, October 7. The Israelis, as was inevitable, fought back, hopefully hard. The New York Times' print edition contained an article "Gazans With Nowhere to Hide Issue a Plea: At Least Warn Us." The Times' electronic edition (link...
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    Here we go again: Denial is theme of disasters, starting with Hamas and going back at least to Pearl Harbor and WW II Start

    Right now, everyone allied with Israel is crying about "failure of intelligence." Yet, just about every major attack that wasn't preempted (the way the Israelis did so brilliantly in 1967) was preceded by alleged "lack of intelligence." Examples, in reverse order are: Hamas attack, 2023...
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    No Self-Hating Name as "Indigenous Persons Day" - Keep Columbus Day

    Last Sunday, I was talking to a few of my friends, and mentioned stuff that happened over a previous Columbus Day Weekend. Someone "corrected" me, saying it is "Indigenous Persons Day." I snapped at him, saying, "I am sick and tired of being told we're bad people, that we don't belong here." I...
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    Rain in New York City! Extra extra read all about it! Time to Panic!

    Extra extra read all about it. It rained in New York City. Fear-mongering about storms, in today's New York Times (Link), excerpt: I consider this media-driven panic.In 1972, same story, more devastation, no media panic. From June 20, 1972 New York Times (link), and June 24, 1972 (link)...
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    Have We Surrendered to Thieves, Mobs & Shoplifters?

    Nordstrom LA Under attack! (link) Target Store in NYC to close (link) Nordstrom in Seattle and two in SFO to close (link) One would expect business interests to fight back. Why are they hanging back? Don't they depend upon the rule of law for their existence? There was no resistance to "bail...
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    Benedict Arnold - A Traitor, Burned in Effigy, Again and Again (But was he really?) I Don't Think So

    All of us, as schoolchildren, learned about Benedict Arnold. We learned that he was a traitor. See recent article,A Traitor, Burned in Effigy, Again and Again What we were not taught was his pre-treason, heroic aspect. One thing to remember was that the U.S. was not a country, but an idea, or...
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    Yet Another Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory Almost 60 Years too late, new book The Final Witness by Paul Landis

    In law, in general, when there is a final judgment or verdict, one has a year to uncover new evidence. One has to demonstrate why the evidence wasn't presented earlier. See FRCP Rule 60(c). Here, a few months shy of 60 years later, a new theory arises. Their are other threads but they are in...
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    Should Killer Danielo Cavalcante have died during arrest?

    Do we have so little faith in ourselves that we value the life of illegal alien killer Danielo Cavacante over our own safety of even the public fiscal well-being? Illegal Alien Killer Danelo Cavalcante is a Hero Back in Latin America Pennsylvania Fugitive Quickly Became a ‘Cult Hero’ in Latin...
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