Hedonism has run rampant. The Left has infected our American culture with the its poison. I believe that the only way we can stop this deluge of increasingly less civilized behavior is to find common ground between Jews and Christians and to work together to build a wall against the poison.”Love thy neighbor as yourself.” We can use this guiding principle working together in both the business and personal aspects of our lives.
According to Yehuda Avner’s essential book The Prime Ministers Menecham Begin unapologetic informed Lord Carrington, one of the anti-Semites in the Thatcher government, that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel thousands of years before London was created. He then stood his ground against the suicidal demands of those “enlightened” masters of Israel, knowing that the Jews always stand alone. Prime Minister Begin did what he thought was right for his country and for his extended family of Jews no matter the strength of the enemy,the sentiments of popular journalists, or the lies perpetuated by political foes. So how is this story connected to Chanukah and the United States?
One has to wonder why the toxic allegations of racism have suddenly appeared as a daily dose of disparagement to individuals and our country. This is especially true when slavery and hate is a pillar of society in many Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, while in the United States slavery was outlawed in 1865 and included three amendments to codify the new societal structure.
Oprah Winfrey, one of the richest and most powerful women people in the United States, or as our dear leader prefers to call them, one of the 1%, had the gall to badmouth the people of America who had made her a household name. Plugging her movie, she stated to the BBC reporter that Americans, “are not happy with the president partly because of his race.” Let’s get it straight once and for all.
If Americans were so racist our dear leader wouldn’t have been elected twice and made the fat black lesbian a billionaire. This bogus argument is used to disguise the real hate of Leftist blacks and their white useful idiots. These moronic elitist probably never heard what happens to them when they’re not needed anymore. All logic and history is being tossed out to fit a narrative that the radical left party, masquerading as Democrats, want in order to transform this country into something unrecognizable.
In their crazy Alice in Wonderland reality,all whites today are responsible for slavery perpetrated almost two hundred years ago. I have a very laconic question. Did you notice how few Jewish survivors of the Nazi holocaust and Gulag hellholes preach hate? And, by the way, that horror happened to people who are STILL ALIVE today or family members who recount the horrors of parents or grandparents. Since this is a country of immigrants, I can assure these victim pimps that I not only was not alive but my forbears were living in Poland and Hungary and had to deal with institutionalized antisemitism and pray that during the savage pogroms loved ones wouldn’t be killed or raped. Many of our students are not taught that there has been institutionalized discrimination against Irish, Italians, and Jews. There were signs hung outside buildings and places of commerce that ” Jews and dogs not allowed.” Universities, like Emory, that are full of Jewish students today, did not allow Jews to apply. Instead of kvetching, Jews built their own hotels, businesses, and parents urged children to do well so that universities COULDN’T deny them entrance. Freedom Riders to free the south of segregation? Many white people heard the call and even died to protect black rights.
I, for one, have taught in urban schools. Not only are grades inflated but there is total disrespect for white teachers. Teaching 6th grade in 1989 I was told by my class how much they hated “Whitey.” and therefore didn’t have to listen. I went to the board and had them help me make a list of the mean, racist whites in their lives. They couldn’t come up with anyone. You should have seen their shock. It’s time we stand our ground and call out the true racists, otherwise the poison will destroy us.
Caroline Glick wrote a great piece about the lack of Jewish identity which is posted on her web site and also in the Jerusalem Post.
As a former Sunday School and Hebrew teacher I would like to add my own unsolicited but heartfelt opinion.
Many American Jews are Reform, which is not authentic Judaism, but a perversion to make the religion more digestible for non-Jews. It is one of the main reasons why we are losing, and have lost, many Jews to assimilation and atheism. As part of its history, the first Hebrew Union graduating class of rabbis were feted with a non-kosher meal which included crab and frog legs. For two generations Reform Jews have been taught that the Torah is not Divine but written by men. Why would any Jewish child take their religion seriously? Christians are taught Jesus is the son of G-d. Muslims are taught the Koran is divine. Jews are taught to read enough Hebrew for their bar/bat mitzvah.
Tikkun Olam is a tenet of Judaism. It literally means means repairing the world. To the Leftist mind this translates that a Jew must support every social program under the sun.The new Jew believes in social programs instead of G-d and fixing his/her own soul.
For more than ten years I taught in Atlanta area Sunday schools. I have used many curricula and textbooks. None gave the students a spiritual and historical basis for having pride in their heritage. Not one gave them the essence of the religion. It is our obligation as Jews to live a righteous life and to hold fast to Torah. In antiquity the Jews were captured and taken to Babylonia in chains. Psalm 137 reminds us how important Jerusalem was to our ancestors.137:5 “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” Our siddurs (prayer books) mention Jerusalem more than 600 times and never once in the Koran.
After life? daily prayer? Jewish children are taught that the former is ” not something Jews believe in” The latter is only necessary under dire circumstances.
Jews are a “stiff necked” people. We have been ranting and running from our covenant since bibical times. It’s time that Jews take the prayer, scrolled tightly in the mezuzah, seriously or for the next Pew survey there won’t be enough Jews to even poll.