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  1. jbg

    School, NYPD 'cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety - Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave Campus

    It is Hamas made the decision to put civilians in harm's way. From every moral point of view they started and lost a war And have no hope of winning. All that they can do is kill people. Even Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany surrendered to the inevitable allied victory. Only in an alternate reality...
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    School, NYPD 'cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety - Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave Campus

    I get it; I'm paying cops to write my older son a summons for going 40 in an empty tunnel under the U.N. on First Avenue; UN Plaza. Nothing to do with my safety. Now I understand.
  3. jbg

    School, NYPD 'cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety - Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave Campus

    Then what is their job? To collect a salary?
  4. jbg

    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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    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading First Strike: The Exclusive Story of How Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt to Get the Bomb by Shlomo Nakdimon. First Strike was not well-reviewed on Goodreads. There was criticism that it "dragged" and of the translation from Hebrew. I am giving the book "Five Stars"...
  6. jbg

    President Joe Biden Declares Easter Sunday As Transgender Day Of Visibility

    I am not a Christian but I am with the Christians on this one. They are doing everything they can to destroy organized society.
  7. jbg

    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.
  8. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead. Arc is a tour d' force of greatness, no question. Mead seeks to take the course of U.S. history as it relates to Jews and then Israel from the Washington presidency...
  9. jbg

    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...
  10. jbg

    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...
  11. jbg

    Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) - Anyone know of this?

    Thanks. I canceled that trip. The trip was a volunteer mission. I was not about to ruin it for the other 20 volunteers. Thanks for your wishes.
  12. jbg

    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...
  13. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson. Yes, that Boris Johnson, who was later a much less long serving or consequential British Prime Minister. Obviously, Winston Churchill was his hero, but he was many other people's heroes. For example, his...
  14. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading A Man of Iron; the Turbulent Life and Improbably Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik. His final words "I have tried so hard to do right” (link) sum up his life. He is best known for being the only president to serve two non-contiguous terms, and the first...
  15. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human. I strongly recommend reading this book. Nevertheless, i'm only giving you the three. There are nuggets of gold buried in the book, as well as stretches of hysteric writing and excessive...
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    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading (yes I know I start all my "reviews" this way) How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Foregiveness by Harold S. Kushner. Just as I did with When Bad Things Happen to Good People, I am giving this a "five." Judaism admits of many points of view on many...
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    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt. I am the big fan of Deborah Libstadt's writing, and when faced with a choice of reading this book, of 250 or so pages compared to Gol'da Meirs own memoir, either approaching or over 1000 pages, the choice was obvious...
  18. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I read Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Méndez back in 2016. Exciting and well-written, this book really brings you back to the dark days of 1979-80. The Canadians really provided a ray of light. The Canadians really provided a ray of...
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    What book r u reading?

    I used this reading Blindsight is 2020: Reflections on Covid Policies by Gabrielle Bauer. If ever there was a book that needed writing it was this one. If there was ever an author that needed to write this book, it was Gabrielle Bauer. The author reflects thoughts that I have had since a few...
  20. jbg

    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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