Recently, I have attempted a thought experiment. I needed to test how Jews see other Jews in the United States. By email, I approached two Sephardi communities (of which I share descendancy from), one Orthodox community (an Ashkenazi school pretending to be Sephardi, because of relied on rituals), one Conservative Read more…
כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדוֹשׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַֽיהֹ.. אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וּבְךָ֞ בָּחַ֣ר יְהֹ.. לִֽהְי֥וֹת לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם סְגֻלָּ֔ה מִכֹּל֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה: The concept of בָּחַ֣ר (being “chosen,” bachàr) is the idea that for the god-King YHWH to exist, YHWH god must have human subjects/vassals to do his bidding! This is a matching microcosm Read more…
A few social media posts of mine, reflecting on life, tradition, and great scholarship (I’m a big fan of theTorah.com): A simple, easily verifiable, fact: הנוצריים עובדי עבודה זרה הן, ויום ראשון יום אידם הוא. “The Christians are idol worshipers [their JC is an idol], and Sunday is their festival.” Read more…
Israel is the excuse, not the reason for this endless violence. The cause of the violence is historic Jew-hatred! As in this post, and as recent white nationalist marches here have so clearly shown. Jews are blamed everywhere for the social problems of others, and regularly attacked. We are blamed Read more…
The blood remembers and speaks to those sensitive enough to listen. This I know firsthand, for I have always known for an internal fact that I am a direct descendant of the indigenous Levantine people from the Levant – the “Fertile Crescent.” So, for me, it is no surprise that Read more…
For decades, I’ve been teaching people how to read and listen to Torah. And it never ceases to amaze me how, here in the West, readers of the Torah insist upon treating these origin myths as isolated and categorized separate events, rather than as one very long-winded single story that Read more…
By its very foundational nature, Judaism is not in any way humanistic. The sole purpose for this Jewish ethno-religion is to ensure the presence of the Jewish nation of families upon the land, distinctly, throughout time. By historic definition, Judaism is an ethno-national religion – it is about the survival Read more…
“Despite the [Israeli] state rabbinate’s ideologically hybrid human makeup [a secular democratic civil government with a singular rabbinical national religious establishment for all Israeli citizens], from a conceptual perspective it has long functioned as a central symbol of the modern Jewish political renaissance. The very idea of a sovereign [secular] Read more…
I can *assuredly* tell you this much: A Jew and Judaism are not just effing titles! Regardless what some in these Western nations believe among us, who are either uninformed or sadly improperly taught to believe, Judaism is not *just* a religion. It is an ethno-religious way of living, that Read more…
(Reactionary atheistic Jews, please, cover your eyes now!!! This post is not for you!(1)) I’m just going to say right here, that I think Dr. Idan Dershowitz is right on Torah about this! This what? The trained misreading of our Torah in this modern monotheistic religious age. So, allow me Read more…