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Category Archives: Jewish
Conflicted Loyalties – Pt. 3,187
In Haaretz is an article titled “Did Hollywood bigwigs help Israel buy arms in the 1970s and ’80s?” Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of such smash hits as “Fight Club,” “Pretty Woman,” and hundreds of other films, is opening up … Continue reading
Large Majority Of Jews Favor Abortion—For Non-Jews
The great Kevin MacDonald discusses: … an article on Mondoweiss by Allison Deger points out the hypocrisy of American Jews who simultaneously are staunch supporters of abortion in America but also support anti-abortion organizations in Israel (“‘Pro-Life? Pro-Israel?’: Israeli anti-abortion … Continue reading
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Conflicting Loyalties
In an article on Cornelius Gurlitt, the 80 year old German who possesses what the media has labeled ‘Nazi-looted art’, is this paragraph: Germany has come under international pressure, including from Stuart Eizenstat, Secretary of State John Kerry’s special adviser … Continue reading
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“Would you ever marry a non-Jew?”
In The Atlantic, Emma Green writes a piece titled “Convincing Millennials to ‘Marry a Nice Jewish Boy’“. The story’s byline: Confronted with an unprecedentedly secular crop of young people, Jewish leaders are pushing intra-religious marriage harder than ever. Their favorite approach? … Continue reading
Beinart Leaving Daily Beast for The Atlantic (and Haaretz)
Some movement, of the quasi-incestuous sort, within MSM punditry: Peter Beinart, the liberal Jewish blogger, is leaving The Daily Beast for The Atlantic Media Company, where he will serve as contributing editor for both The Atlantic and National Journal. Beinart … Continue reading
Jew York Times – Pt. 881,273
A good barometer of the NYC liberal Jewish zeitgeist is to see what the ‘most e-mailed’ stories in the NYT are. Today, at the #1 spot, is an op-ed titled “Being ‘Part Jewish’”. Yes… this is the #1 most e-mailed … Continue reading
The Counselor & The Jeweler
While the movie The Counselor is getting clobbered, Cormac McCarthy’s full unadulterated screenplay has been published. Thomas Flynn looks at some of the scripts lengthier scenes which didn’t make it into the movie, or that were truncated on-screen. When the … Continue reading
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Summers in Paradise
Israel is a foreign country, with interests that are unique and different than the interests of the United States. Larry Summers: A hair’s width away from being head of the Fed. Then a plausible candidate to head Israel’s Fed. (Hat … Continue reading
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Was Superman Jewish?
Eddy Portnoy, of the Judaic Studies Program at Rutgers University, reviews Harry Brod’s new book, Superman is Jewish? How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way. Of Brod’s thesis, Portnoy is sceptical: [I]t’s one that … Continue reading
Paul Gottfried: Brief Bio
In Front Porch Republic is a brief article on “What You Need to Know about Paul Gottfried“: It is necessary to historicize Gottfried in order to understand the nature of his criticisms. He became friends with Russell Kirk during his … Continue reading
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