Man’s Religions

200 Years Together: Derzhavin & the Belarus famine

Posted by T on December 26, 2007
Judaica, Modern (1500-1900) / 7 Comments

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Two Hundred Years Together: Russo-Jewish History, vol. 1 (1795-1916)

Chapter 1, To End of 18th Century, fifth installment (see contents).

[G45] Since the start of the reign of Paul I there was a great famine in White Russia, especially in the province of Minsk. The poet Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, then serving as Senator, was commissioned to go there and determine its cause and seek a solution — for which task he received no money to buy grain, but instead had the right to confiscate possessions of negligent landowners, sell their stockpile and distribute them. Continue reading…

200 Years Together: The Kahal and Civil Rights

Posted by T on December 17, 2007
History, Judaica, Modern (1500-1900) / No Comments

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Two Hundred Years Together: Russo-Jewish History, vol. 1 (1795-1916) Continue reading…

Solzhenitsyn on Jews and Russians Together

Posted by T on November 28, 2007
History, Judaica / 12 Comments

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s recent book, Two Hundred Years Together, covering the intertwined history of Russians and Jews, is published in two volumes. The first volume covers the history up to the 1917 Revolution. The second finishes the story as far as 1995. Continue reading…

(DVD) Sex and the City

Posted by T on November 21, 2007
By Title, Judaica, Movies / 19 Comments

This was an HBO series aimed at modern young women that is now available on DVD. It was a six-year sensation spanning the new millennium. Continue reading…

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Jews by the Numbers

Posted by M on November 13, 2007
Culture, Judaica / 60 Comments

Click over to this web site which is titled, Jews in Government, and note as you read that the list does not include state, county or municipal offices; neither does it count federal departments, high-level staffers and advisers, or judges on lower courts. Continue reading…

When I hear the word “anti-Semitism,” I reach for my revolver

Posted by T on July 21, 2007
Judaica, When I hear the word... / 14 Comments

but for a reason opposite to that of the Semite-worshippers that are also seen to be grabbing their pistols.

My thesis is very simple: the term anti-semitism exploits an equivocation between race and religion that sets up the discourse for fallacious inferences. Moreover, the privileged status that this term has over others in its genre is itself an indication of the racism of those that recklessly purvey it. Continue reading…

Augustinian Conspiracy Theory

Posted by T on June 09, 2007
History, Occult, Politics / 7 Comments

The view of man and of history presented by Augustine in the City of God is glorious and awe-inspiring. In this vision, all men are active and loyal citizens of one or the other of two invisible Cities: the City of God, or the City of Man. Continue reading…

Murder in the Name of G-d

Posted by M on June 01, 2007
Judaica / 13 Comments

In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, Mordechai Eliyahu, declares that all Palestinians in Gaza (men, women, children) are collectively guilty for the Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot and ruled that there was no Talmudic prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential Israeli offensive on Gaza. The rabbi reasoned that everyone in Gaza is responsible Continue reading…

Memorial Day – Remembering a few forgotten heroes

Posted by M on May 30, 2007
20th century, Judaica / 5 Comments

You have heard of Sargent York and Audie Murphy, but how many have heard of Sargent David Rubitsky? Probably very few. But you should have. His feats would make York or Murphy blush in comparison. Continue reading…

Wotan vs Mormonism’s god

Posted by T on April 09, 2007
Occult, Opera / 7 Comments

My point in this endeavor is not to give a full exposition of either Mormonism or Wagner’s Ring cycle, but simply to compare and contrast Mormonism’s Jehove and Wagner’s Wotan for the purpose of reflecting on whether love for the story of Wotan is rational. Continue reading…

Holocaust Boredom – The Latest Thought Crime

Posted by M on March 23, 2007
Current Discourse, Judaica / 5 Comments

We live in bizarre times. In numerous European countries it is crime to question the official version of the German Holocaust against the Jews. Continue reading…

When I hear the word “Christian-Zionist” I reach for my revolver

Posted by M on March 14, 2007
Judaica, When I hear the word... / 41 Comments

We are all familiar with oxymora. Some of my favorites are: military intelligence; instant classic; educational television; French deodorant; peacekeeper missile; temporary tax increase; the Patriot Act. Continue reading…

In vino veritas

Posted by M on March 14, 2007
Current Flux, Judaica, Man's Religions / 5 Comments

This is what many Judaic settlers think of the goyim. WARNING GRAPHIC AND BLASPHEMOUS LANGUAGE.

Movie. Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947. (HIx: 1)

Posted by T on March 13, 2007
By Title, Judaica, Movies / 7 Comments

Gregory Peck is a newspaper feature-writer assigned to write on “anti-semitism.” He decides to investigate the subject by pretending to be a Jew in his daily life, and observing how others react to that fact. Doing so, he discovers “anti-semitism” bursting Continue reading…

When I hear the word “Judeo-Christian” I reach for my revolver

Posted by M on January 12, 2007
Judaica, When I hear the word... / 61 Comments

It is often thought, to borrow from Shaw, that Christianity and Judaism are two religions separated by a common Continue reading…