Only narcissists and crybaby bloggers blog about themselves.I don’t care how charmingly it’s written or how witty you are, your personal life’s narrative is worthless. Unless you spent last weekend skydiving from a jet while shooting up at three KGB agents before skiing down a mountain, your personal life doesn’t matter to me. And hell even if you did all that, I still don’t care, because I saw the movie. If all you have to talk about is your personal life, then stop blogging and stick to Facebook.
So spare me your stupid stories about your shul. I don’t care. The only people who find your shul stories funny either go to your shul or are scrounging around for traffic and link exchanges in your comments section. When you get right down to the stale onion soup, every shul is alike, be it Reform, Conservative or Orthodox. They’re boring.
And for the love of dirty diapers, spare me the mother’s day rants or the mommyblogging. Mommyblogging is internet AIDS, it’s the beating rotten heart of self-centered narcissism and whininess. Oh look little Yitzi is old enough to look out the window by himself. Let me take a picture, a video, write a poem about it and begin writing a self-help book that teaches mothers what to do in moments like this… and let me share it all with you! No thanks.
Did you just move to Israel? Good for you. Now prove it by blogging in Hebrew so I can ignore you.
Are you trying to find inspiration in everyday life? Here’s me not caring. Go find inspiration in that.
Did you just get out of an abusive relationship? Then why must you create a whole new abusive relationship between you and the internet by constantly blogging about it. Yes I’m sure it’s therapeutic for you but sadistic toward the other 1,000,000,000,000 using this thing.
Are you a Rabbi? Are you by any chance a “Wacky Rabbi”. Do you fly fish or ride of a motorcycle or have lots of unprotected gay sex with strange men? I don’t want to hear about it. You’re not cool, you’re just annoying. In case you don’t know it, Rabbi means someone addressing you as Greater Than Me. Calling yourself a Rabbi is retarded and trying to brand yourself as some kind of “Wacky Cool Fun-Loving Rabbi” just makes you pathetic and defeats the whole purpose. If you want to be thought of as a Cool Rabbi go learn to Rap and then bring joy to generations of kids as they make fun of your records.
According to JewsOnFirst, the Republican Jewish Coalition committed a horrible crime, they sent out a copy of a book called Stand With Israel and a DVD of Obsession, a movie about Radical Islamic terrorism. You can’t see why a normal person would have a problem with this, but it’s obvious why JewsOnFirst would have a problem with this. Because JewsOnFirst wants Jews dead, first.
JewsOnFirst keeps squealing that Obsession is an Anti-Muslim film without actually providing any proof of it. But after all any movie that actually talks about Muslim terrorism has to be hateful to JewsOnFirst, Obama’s biggest squealing lapdogs.
To the JewsOnFirst type of Anti-Jew, it’s Israel and Jewish identity that’s the real threat, not Islam. Any Jew who goes so far as to care enough about Israel and other Jews to stand up to Muslim terrorism makes them look bad in front of their Unitarian son in law.
It’s ironic that JewsOnFirst claims to be for the first amendment and they’re the ones cynically attacking free speech when it interferes with Obama’s candidacy or the ability of their Muslim buddies to kill Jews. The two are redundant I know.
The violent attacks by Eddie Beckford, a Messianic Jewish cult leader have been getting a lot of attention lately in the Israeli media as videos showing him attempting to run down a Jewish man and violently attacking him with his fists.
While Eddie Beckford, his wife Lura Beckford, aka Lura Maiman (her husband’s last name, not her own) have been conducting a hateful campaign against Jews in Arad and throughout Israel. YouTube accounts show a multipart video titled “This is Why People Hate Jews”. Many of these videos blatantly involve scenes staged by Beckford’s own followers in order to solicit sympathy and money as they perform for the camera.
Messianic cults like Eddie Beckford’s call themselves Messianic Jews but they are typically not Jewish. They use deceit and any means they can to suck someone into their group. The Branch Davidians at Waco were the most famous example of a Messianic cult.
As a kid, I grew up in NYC; I was born Catholic, and my mother made me attend mass each Sunday. In those days, mass was performed in Latin, and the service was strictly orthodox. I was later permitted to join the East Harlem Protestant Parish on E.104th Street. The Parish was youth oriented.
There goes the whole Edwin Beckford Messianic Jew scam right there. Edwin Beckford is not Jewish and never was. He’s a black Catholic. His wife Lura Beckford was previously married to a man who may have been Jewish.
But it gets much worse. Edwin Beckford’s group in Israel and the name of his site is Kings Men Arad at kingsmenarad.com. Some people might think that Kings Men has a religious meaning. The truth however is quite different.
Man, I came across this website while, just for the heck of it, keying in ‘the East River Projects’. Wow! Man, I was reading all the entries and was getting overwhelmed. Man, I made it through two whole pages and just had to stop and put in my 2 cents.
Dig it, I was born in Metropolitan Hosp. in 1947, went to P.S. 168 (2nd grade teach Ms. ‘D’, 3rd grade Ms. Wolf), went to Otis Jr. High ( / Ben Franklin), moved to the Island (Roosevelt High), and did a stretch in Nam.My older brother graduated from Ben Frank and Food Trade (where he got his nickname ‘Cook’), my younger sister P.S. 99 (nickname Ting Ting). We lived in the E. River Projects (400 E. 103rd St. [1st Ave.]).
Fond memories: Use to walk to school (103rd to 116th) along the E. River Dive (Pleasant Ave.) to avoid confrontations with the Red Wings (an Italian gang that hanged around 115th and 1st). Other gangs during the day were the Viceroys, Vikings, Chancellors, Baldies, and the King’s Men (my brother belonged to).
And that’s the real origin of King’s Men Arad. The King’s Men were a brutal and violent gang responsible for numerous crimes and murders. Eddie Beckford, true to his roots, came to Israel and named his center after his brother’s gang. For all we know he was a member too. And in Israel he used his Kings Men Arad to act just like the original Kings Men did.
Eddie Beckford’s Arad Messianic cult may call itself Israeli and Jewish, but it’s neither. And Edwin Beckford tries to call himself an Israeli while stating that he won’t celebrate Israeli Independence Day, that Zionism is evil, that Orthodox Jews are with the Anti-Christ. So why is he in Israel? To recruit members for his cult of course. Even while despising and hating the country he lives in and the people he lives among.
Using his Messianic Hebrew Christian Fellowship (MHCF) forum Edwin Beckford writes blatant lies about Jews and Israel and issues constant solicitations for money. With articles like “Holocaust - Just Another Excuse?”,
Some say “Yes! I’m for Israel being a democracy” but they fail to tell you “A democracy for Jews only” which brings you back to a sugar-coated Jewish State.
Except that Edwin Beckford lives in Israel and is free to run his cult and websites out of there. Arabs sit in the Knesset and vote in elections. So do Russian Non-Jews, Armenians, etc
Who’s A Jew? And then you have the issue of ‘Who’s A Jew? ‘. This is determined by the Rabbinical (Sanhedrin) Court of ultra-Orthodox (Pharisees).
Here’s a hint for Eddie Beckford. A Catholic from Harlem who went to run his own cult is not a Jew. Just as I’m not a Catholic.
In essence, the Jewish National Fund appears to be procuring land for the ultra-Orthodox Jews (Pharisees) only!
What a load of crap. Most JNF land is not used by Ultra-Orthodox Jews. Most Ultra-Orthodox Jews actually live inside major cities. And even Messianics have been able to set up a theme park on JNF land. Eddie Beckford’s lies know no shame.
I doubt if Jews from Ethiopia, Russia, Argentina, Morocco, etc. are included in this land deal.
That would be news to the more than a million and a half Russian and Middle Eastern and South American Jews who live all across Israel.
To break it down Edwin Beckford aka Eddie Beckford and Lura Beckford aka Lura Maimon are running an Anti-Jewish cult that calls itself Messianic Jewish and lashing out violently at Jews. They spread lies and hate toward Israel and Jews.
All Agnes Kole wants is for Danbury federal prison officials to allow its Jewish inmates to buy such Passover staples as chicken, gefilte fish and smoked salmon like they could for the past 12 years she’s been an inmate.
Instead, Kole claims the prison has cut back the Passover purchase list from 12 items to just matzos, grape juice, chocolate and macaroons.
So Kole, a New Jersey woman, has turned the cutbacks into a federal lawsuit.
“It’s retaliation,” Kole told U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall this week. She claimed the reduction in available items stems from her complaining last year when the prison cut the amount Jewish inmates could spend on Passover food purchases from $290 to $100. Her efforts led to restoration of the higher figure.
The problem? Agnes Kole is not Jewish. She’s a Nigerian who was part of a massive heroin smuggling operation. Only the Newsday story mentions who she really is.
She is a Nigerian national accused of heading a group that brought more than 60 pounds of nearly pure heroin into the United States between November 1990 and August 1993.
Her real name seems to be Zaima Soto Muwanga. And the odds of her being Jewish are about as good as me being Nigerian.
Kosher food was about religious accommodation in prisons. But many prisoners who are not Jewish who make a career out of suing prisons are exploiting Kosher religious accommodations are piggybacking on it.
Remember Norman Lee Toler, the Neo-Nazi with SS Tattoos who decided he was Jewish and wanted Kosher food?
Missouri prison inmate Norman Lee Toler was once labeled as a white supremacist, after, authorities say, he was caught in an Illinois penitentiary with seven photos of Adolf Hitler and a fresh “SS” tattoo.
This week, however, Toler was in federal court in St. Louis, saying he is Jewish and that his soul will be in jeopardy if he is forced to eat nonkosher food.
Inmates in today’s prisons have often gotten good at using and playing the system by demanding their rights under the regulations. Some of those are legitimate, but Nigerians and White Supremacists demanding Kosher food is not.
Ben Stein is a pretty intelligent guy. But he’s also a giant whore.
Most people remember him as that guy who keeps repeating Ferris Bueller over and over again. Some remember him for those annoying eyedrops commercials. Fewer people remember that he was Richard Nixon’s lawyer and speech writer. In other words a giant whore.
Ben Stein has\had a game show, but he also has a movie that exploits the murder of Six Million Jews for the agenda of the Christian religious right. The movie is Expelled and it attempts to sell the piece of shitty historical revisionism that Darwinism not Christian Anti-Semitism was responsible for the Holocaust.
Ben Stein is so shameless about it that Expelled , his Pro-Intelligent Design movie exploits the Holocaust, actually featuring footage of Auschwitz and Dachau and blaming Darwinism for it.
Let’s get something straight Benny. You want to do Intelligent Design movies, gey gezunte heit. Knock yourself out. Knock yourself into next week. But leave the Holocaust out of it. Don’t use the locations where millions of Jews were brutally murdered to prop up your argument. It’s repulsive and disgusting. Just like you.
Darwnism did not kill millions of Jews. Anti-Semitism did. Darwnism did not lead to Auschwitz. Anti-Semitism did. When you try to cover that up with lies, you disgrace yourself and exploit the dead to whitewash their killers. And that’s Expelled for you.
Darwin did not favor killing anyone. Martin Luther and the long series of Popes did. The idea of superior races predates Darwin by millennia. Darwinism in the hands of the Nazis was just a tool for arguing what Germans had believed anyway long before him, that they were a superior race and that Jews were an inferior one. The origin of those beliefs is not in Darwinism but in the crooked heart of man. It’s in the teachings of the Catholic Church, it’s in the New Testament which proclaims that Jesus’ blood was to be on the Jewish people and their descendants. There is a direct road from that to the gas chamber but it’s not a road Ben Stein wants to walk. It’s much easier to kowtow to the Christian religious right, to produce something like Expelled and blame the atheists for it. The problem is that the Nazis weren’t atheists, for the most part they were Catholics and Lutherans, good Christians, who like centuries of good Christians saw it their Christian duty to murder Jews.
Atheists didn’t massacre hundreds of thousands of Jews under Chmelnitski. Atheists did not burn Jews at the stake in Spain. Atheists did not stone Jews to death for poisoning wells or torture them for days over claims that we drank Christian blood. Atheists did not machine gun Jews and toss their bodies in pits and then go to confession and get absolution from their priest. Christians did that.
The only Atheists who killed Jews were in the Soviet Union and your Christian buddies don’t like to talk about that, Ben Stein. Do you know why they don’t like to talk about the time Atheists tried to kill millions of Jews? Because it damages their case that Jews are responsible for Communism. Because they’d much rather listen to the hatefilled squealings of Solzhenitsyn, a KGB stoolie and pathological liar, who reinvented himself as Russia’s Anti-Semitic conscience.
Ben Stein’s Expelled is a lie when it tries to sell the idea that Darwinism led to Auschwitz. Darwinism was just another attempt to write God out of the picture. And as wrong as that is, it isn’t the people who worship nothing that we should be afraid of, but the ones who worship idols and demons, who bow their asses to Mecca, to Charles Manson, to the Cult of Personality of leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, to “infallible” Popes like Pope Pius IX who spread Anti-Semitism across Europe in Catholic paper after Catholic paper that charged the Jews with everything wrong in the world preparing the ground for the Holocaust.
I am not a fan of Darwinism but I’m no fan of lies either and Ben Stein’s Expelled is a lie. Go dig up Nixon, you four eyed bastard and see if he’ll take you back.
Using the Ariel bombing as an excuse, Christian cults operating in Israel under the name Messianic Jews, particularly in Arad, have begun a campaign of hate against Jews.
Like Scientologists, the cults calling themselves Messianic Jews claim that they’re being persecuted. Numerous videos across YouTube with titles like “Now This is Why Everyone Hates Jews” document clashes that they generate with Jews. Meanwhile more “sympathetic” stories are being run on the Jerusalem Post which relies heavily on Christian dollars about how they’re persecuted. Not a word about the violent attacks, fraud and child abuse perpetrated by these cult members or their rabid hatred of Jews.
These cults calling themselves Messianic Jews operating in Israel are non-Jewish and actually violently hateful toward Jews. They sometimes try to disguise it with a Pro-Israel veneer but give them 5 minutes and they begin ranting about Pharisees and the Synagogue of Satan, Kabbalistic Satanism and really unleashing a vile torrent of filth. Aviad Cohen’s old videos before he had them taken down (formerly 50 Shekel) and a prominent cult member were typical of these.
The Messianic Jews are really Non-Jewish Christians with messed up belief systems ranging from carrying out present day sacrifices to believing that Jesus (or as they call Jesus, Yeshua) came on a UFO. They’re into defrauding people, bringing them into the cult and working them non-stop and siphoning away their life savings. Just like Scientology.
But these phony cults which call themselves Messianic Jewish synagogues and come with fake Rabbis don’t just take advantage of Jews, they take advantage of Christians. Rabbi Ari Crockett is a typical example. Messianic Jewish cults may call themselves Jewish but they’re mostly made up of Christians, which means they target Christians for cult membership. Christians who sympathize with them should remember that their sons and daughters could be next and that while that these fake Messianic Jews may talk a lot about Jesus, they’re no different than the Moonies or Harei Krishnas or any other cult.
They target both Jews and Christians for their cults. They use lies and deceit. They have lawyers to protect their cult leaders from their crimes. They use violence and terroristic threats. And their goal is to take control of people’s lives.
The most famous Messianic Jewish cult died horribly at Waco Texas when they murdered Federal agents to protect their child molesting leader, David Koresh. Like most messianic groups, they were mostly Christians with a handful of Jews. They were filled with hate for the outside world by their leader and willing to do anything.
It’s natural that Jews in Israel don’t want such people or such cults setting up shop. Just as virtually no country in the world allows them to set up their cults. So they’ve resorted to a Pro-Israel veneer running sites like IsraelToday.co.il that pretend to be Pro-Israel on the surface to shake down Christians and Jews for money. At Arad and with thugs like Eddie Beckford leading them, it’s easy to see their real face. Despite all the lies put out on the web by their messianic cult, the messianic cult in Arad, Eddie Beckford and his followers are the primary source of hate waging a ruthless campaign against the Jews of Arad.
In the town of Arad Messianic cult leaders like Eddie Beckford have waged a campaign of hate against Jews while using Messianic outlets to present themselves as innocent victims. Yet the above video which shows Eddie Beckford trying to run down a Jewish man doesn’t show an innocent victim. There are other videos that show violent assaults. Yet Beckford’s Arad cult has successfully blanketed YouTube with numerous videos filled with hate for Jews while portraying themselves as the victims based on a shouting match with some Orthodox Jews. What their videos don’t show is the violent assaults they’ve committed against Orthodox Jews.
Jews should stand with our fellow Jews of Arad against Eddie Beckford and his creepy cult and hateful intentions. Donate to Yad Leachim’s programs and flag the Arad videos as hateful if you come across them.
America is the country of immigrants, except unfortunately these days it’s the country of illiterate immigrants handling services in English, a language they don’t actually speak.
Me: (calling hospital) “Hello I’d like to make an appointment to Dr. XYZ”
Heavily Accented Asian Lady: “What department is he in.”
Me: “I don’t know. He’s a GP. General Practitioner.”
Heavily Accented Asian Lady: “GP. Ah, ok. GP department.”
And there went another chunk of my day. I’ve been to a post office that has staff based on race and ethnicity, not based on competence. The very nice Chinese man at the package window CANNOT READ ENGLISH. He barely speaks English. I have no idea how he passed his civil service exam but he could not actually read what was written on the packages. Getting a package from him, if you weren’t Chinese was a long grueling process. The last time it took 15 minutes until he finally got another Chinese lady who can read English but who was openly rude and hostile, telling people to leave and not come back.
When government facilities and hospitals cant seem to find anyone to record messages who doesn’t speak with a heavy accent, there’s something seriously wrong.
Spinning off a Frumhouse discussion on the topic, hair was a powerful idea for men and women in the Torah.
On the one hand the Sotah’s hair is loosened and unbound. On the other part of the Nazir’s restraint involves growing out his hair and not cutting it. For the ultimate Nazir, Shimshon’s hair is literally the seat of his power. Paradoxically the Kohanim shaved their hair before entering service in the Mishkan. As does the Nazir at the end of his Nezirut.
Hair on the head was a symbol of power, an extension of the body. And power could be restrained or unbound. The Torah has a number of prohibitions on shaving and destroying hair. This represents the tension between the extremes, excessive asceticism and excessive hedonism. The Nazir was one extreme and the Kohen was another. Most people fall somewhere in between.
Hair on the body tends not to be referenced. Unlike Greeks, Jews were not overly concerned with personal grooming except in the Hellenized upper class. Sanhedrin 21a does feature the quoted view of R. Yitzchak but the context of the Gemara is clearly not hostile to Tamar. The larger picture is that David Hamelech’s own indulgences created the complicated family situation that resulted in rebellions and Tamar’s rape and the fight for power.
David Hamelech himself has been compared to Esav who was called the hairy one.
If the Jew living in the Dor of Moshe Rabbeinu had a few hundred Issurim to deal with, by the end of Bayit Sheni the number of things forbidden had ballooned to the high thousands and by 1000 CE was several times that and today it’s virtually ad infinitum.
Part of that is the expanded capability created by technology and social organization to control and create new permissible and impermissible zones. The entire Hasgacha industry was created when it became possible to regulate every single thing we eat, right down to the plates and the condiments. When a century ago we went and bought some cheese from a farmer or killed a chicken out back, today we have deal with vortexes of kosher accreditations.
But if there’s anything we should have learned with our bout with the golden calf in the recent parsha is that we suck at keeping even basic things. If the great Dor of the Midbar couldn’t even manage to not sorta worship idols a month after Har Sinai, what are the odds that we can successfully keep a 1000 times the Issurim they ever had to deal with.
And the question of the day is whether we’re actually any better at the big stuff, such as not doing adultery, theft or worshiping idols or oppressing our brother? How about Sinas Chinam? And forget about that Tikkun Olam misnomer.
Let’s put a hold on the strawberries and the tap water and the hemlines and let’s look at the basic stuff. The average Jew today has far more responsibilities than the Dor of the Midbar did with way less to prop up our emunah. The answer is not more bans, the answer is less.
We’ve wrapped everything up in chumras and gederim ad le shamayim but it hasn’t brought us any closer to shamayim. Not when there’s so many things wrong in our communities.
All around the great big ball of smelly wax of the world, round and round the ball goes and where it stops… it stops at Douchebag Station. Douchebags stand at attention, this is your finest hour.
The first douchebag of the week is New York State Governor Elliot Spitzer who thought the law applied to everyone but him. He loved the media so much he used it to constantly leak stories about his enemies. Now he’s getting the asskicking he deserves. Good riddance.
The second douchebag of the week is George W. Bush who tanked the economy, smashed up the military and didn’t actually accomplish anything except to bring electrical power to some part of some godforsaken camelhumper country that would have been better off staying bombed into the dark ages.
Now Georgie showed up at the Kuwait-American foundation, spinoff of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait group that tricked America into the Gulf War in the first place, saying that his African program isn’t his program, it’s a gift from the American people. Screw you George, the American people hate your guts. You want to give out gift, give us a gift so we can actually afford to buy flour, you privileged Ivy League moron zombie.
The third douchebag of the week is Tzvee Zahavy who hates Jews so much he linked approvingly to Richard Silverstein’s blog Tikkun Olam where Richard was busy bashing an Orthodox Rabbi. Tikkun Olam is Richard Silverstein’s platform for praising terrorists. Tzvee Zahavy obviously doesn’t have the guts to praise them himself, so he gives a little tip of the hat to Richie instead.
The fourth douchebag of the week is Ben Affleck who harnessed the great fame he’s gotten from appearing in a whole lot of crap no one has ever seen in exchange for money who’s now leading Hollywood to get more involved in electing Obama. Great idea Ben, you know how the average person hates actors who won’t shut up about politics. Yeah, now you can harness their hatred for Obama. Now go make Gigli 2 or Reindeer Games 2: The Reindeering.
The fifth douchebag of the week isn’t just Rabbi Michael Lerner who just had to write up that Daily Kos diary ranking the dead teenagers in Mercaz HaRav with the dead terrorists in Gaza. It was ever douchebag liberal Jblogger who found a backdoor way of saying the same thing.I hope you all rot in hell and I hope you get trapped in an elevator for 3 days with Michael Lerner to see which of you will eat the other first. I still bet on Lerner because he’s one fat bastard.
