Hat tip: Fluid Mind
About the singer/writer from his Myspace site:
Rav Shmuel is a rabbi who drinks beer and plays original compositions on his guitar. He has a beard and sidelocks and he loves The Dead. He does not see an inconsistency between these two identities. Rather, he thinks of Judaism and music as complementary and often coalescing tools and methods for communication (blah blah blah).
Rav, who has taught Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at various Universities, has also toured the country with Gefiltefish, his first stateside band, playing sold-out parking lots before and after Phish shows. He does not play klezmer, although he does make the odd Maimonidean joke. He thinks of himself as a Rock Star.
Speaking of the Protocols of the the Elders of Zion, PBS just aired a program, Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century. I found it pretty fair when it came to the history of the Israeli conflict. It was only an hour show, so it was difficult to cover everything properly. I was slightly taken aback by the emphasis on blaming Christians as the root source of Arab/Muslim hatred of the Jews. I think that is oversimplifying things a tad.
They did make the Arab nations out as hate mongering assmonkeys for their collective acceptance of the Protocols, and their perpetual teaching of it. It must be humiliating for 350 million Arabs constantly losing to 5 million Jews, so they must cling to conspiracy theories and known forgeries to keep their egos up.
Of course, Paliphile viewers found the PBS show to be extremely biased. But what else is new. Historical fact and the truth is not on the side of Paliphiles.
Read some pro and con comments/reviews here.
First let me say I am not Jewish. Even so, the extent of antisemitism that I encounter when talking to people riles me. It's not hard to extract an unfavorable opinion about Jews, just pick a subject and inevitably it will lead to the Jews as the culprits. I can give an example of my wife who was previously married to an intelligent man, who was a rabid antisemite. Fortunately my wife is intelligent enough to see reason. It took me years of discussion to make her see that she had been brainwashed by the opinions of her former husband, that's right, she too was an antisemite. You may ask what it is that makes me different to most people, since I'm not Jewish. It is this, I have enormous respect for the contributions made by Jewish intellectuals to the volume of knowledge and science of the western world. To draw up a list of names would be just too long.
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen it but hopefully they'll rerun it.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I don't know how much they emphasized blaming Christians but I no longer have any doubt Christians are a huge part of the problem.
I apparently lived in a bubble-world where most of my friends & associates had better things to do than advocate for the destruction of Israel and blame the Jews for all the evils in the world.
Since finding this site and several others and being insanely curious (or nosy depending on your POV) I've been digging around and finding attitudes that make my hair stand on end.
I'll have to see the documentary but I wonder if they really did exaggerate the part Christians play in this.
I heard good things about the special, kind of sad to say that I have heard good things about it.
ReplyDeleteTinfoil is getting out of control in today's world.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to Iran, Hugo Chavez, a socialist who believes the Jews control most of world's wealth and power, will be a future problem. Him holding up one of Noam Chump-sky's paranoid rantings should have a been a big warning sign to the voters down there, but Uncle Hugo cares, has compassion, tries to bring people together and heal partisan divides, and the rest of the liberal mumbo-jumbo.
I guess Venezuela will be a shining beacon to the world, like Fidel's socialist paradise. Together, they will stand up to the great Judenstaat in the north where Geld is more important than Geist.
Chavez's goons in the Venezuelan Congress just passed the enabling act, which is modeled on the 1933 German measure. It gives him absolute power to seize private power on behalf of "the people" and "the common good." Chavez promised to strip the central bank of its autonomy, to take over the telecom and energy industries, and exert complete control over the country's oil supply.
We're going to have to relive the 1900s whether we like it or not.
Your blog postings are good examples of computer function:
ReplyDeleteshit in = shit out
lexcen:
ReplyDeletejews always want to know "what's in YOUR fucking wallet?"
you seem to enjoy the taste of jew arse.
I have to remark on the octopus: it look sickly to me, lacking vigor and cruelty.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly not how we, the Elders, rule the world.
Oh, and I see you have picked up a stalker - congratulations.
Everyone needs to have at least one of these ;-)
The PEZ are a scam. The scam is that most of "Western civilization" has been convinced that it's a forgery.
ReplyDeleteSholom, maybe you should expand on this idea. Maybe you write a post about this on your blog.
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