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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
Sebastien Zorn Said:
Please, I confess, just stop the torcher.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
You are posting far too much stuff. Your posts should be limited to the subject at hand and be at most 300 to 400 words.
Please police yourself so I don’t have to.l
I don’t know why the article omits the following. Makes it even worse:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218744
The Left controls the Criminal Justice System in Israel and uses allegations of corruption as a political weapon against the National Camp. It’s outrageous that Jews should have more freedom in the United States, Canada and Australia (I think that about covers it) than in Israel.
This is an email I sent out about Joe Pasternak to my circle a while back:
People act as though Israel should be held to an impossibly high standard and the Muslims to none at all because Israel is a “first world country” and Muslims are “third world, until World War One, the Muslims ruled and Jews were abused, impoverished second-class citizens, for the most part. Ah, you say, but Israel was mostly founded by “European” Jews, you say (even if most of the population consists of Jewish refugees from “Muslim countries” where the Jews lived from before the Muslim conquests. So, they have “White-Skin Privilege” and that’s why Israel is a developed democracy, in contrast to the Palestinian Authority (and indirectly, Hamas) which is the largest recipient of humanitarian aid in the world, and the only “people” who are labeled refugees, generation after generation, in perpetuity, even if they are citizens of another country, even those who weren’t refugees to begin with, but local residents who knew a good thing when they saw it.
This is an excerpt from the autobiography of a European Jew who produced many of Hollywood’s most beloved Musical pictures during it’s golden age. This should should allegations of European “privilege” for Jews to rest, especially since he’s not trying to prove anything, as this is aeons before the “political correctness” that should be abolished because it excludes us from protection. I am typing this. It can be read at https://archive.org where it has been scanned in. It is an out-of-print public domain book. If you hate ebooks, I suppose an inexpensive copy can be ordered online from Amazon, A libris or some other site. Just google the title and “ebook.”
“2. ‘Listen To The Music’
‘In our town the postman was easily the most popular man. Children chased after him as he made his rounds. People smiled at him when he passed, as if they hoped that he would reward them with a letter. I alone grew to dread his comings and goings. He reached our home about nin o’clock in the morning. I always tried to arrange it so I would not be there when he came.
I had nothing against the man. It was my Uncle Geza who was the real cause of it all. Uncle Geza had gone to America a few years before, in 1907 to be exact. He had hardly settled down in the new world before his letters began to be filled with what we knew to be the most obvious tall tales, not to say downright lies. Uncle Geza was that kind anyway. In our family he was considered something of a sporting character. He lived in Budapest whereas we lived in a little town in Transylvania. My mother – Uncle Geza’s sister – was a strict woman; we children overheard fascinating rumors about Uncle Geza and the many girls who had fallen in love with him, of how he gambled and spent his evenings listening to gypsy music in dimly lit cafes. This was before he went to America, of course.
Naturally none of us believed the fantastic stories he sent back. He wrote that it was nothing for every family to have a bathtub of its own. He wrote that the police didn’t bother anyone unless he caused trouble. Uncle Geza said if someone didn’t like his job, he could just leave it. In the six years he’s been in America, he’s changed his job three times. Once he’d told the owner of the factory that he wished a plague would overtake him, and there was nothing the owner could do about it. He said he had moved from New York to Philadelphia without asking anyone’s permission and that he did not even have to report to the police. It was obvious that he regarded us all as ignorant cousins prepared to believe anything…”
“Easy The Hard Way” by Joe Pasternak [as told to David Chandler] illustrated. G.P. Putnam’s Son’s New York. 1956.
[Now, that’s genuinely “oppressed without whining and victimizing others.” And this is what he had to show for it and what he contributed despite all that. bl]
Joe Pasternak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Pasternak, see Pasternak.
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Joseph Herman “Joe” Pasternak (September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was an Hungarian-born American film producer inHollywood.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 In the United States
3 Death and tribute
4 Partial filmography
5 References
6 External links
Early life[edit]
Born to a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now ?imleu Silvaniei, S?laj County, Romania), Pasternak was a successful film producer in Germany and Austria by the time he was 28 years old. He worked for Universal Pictures in Europe, where he made German-language musicals for the international market. He hit upon a successful formula, building light musical comedies around an adolescent soprano (Franciska Gaal).
Following the establishment of the Nazi regime, Pasternak emigrated to the United States.
In the United States[edit]
Pasternak (right) receiving his star onHollywood Boulevard from Johnny Grant withGene Kelly on the left on July 29, 1991.
At Universal’s Hollywood studio in 1936. Pasternak cast 14-year-old Canadian singer Deanna Durbin in Three Smart Girls (1936). The film became a huge hit and reputedly saved Universal from bankruptcy. Pasternak produced a string of Durbin musicals, and soon discovered another talented soprano, Gloria Jean. who began her own series in 1939. Pasternak proved to be a real asset for the studio, generating a number of popular films, including Destry Rides Again (1939) and Seven Sinners (1940).
In 1941 he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he sat on the executive committee[1] and was regarded one of the three most important persons in the company, alongside Louis B. Mayer and Vice President Sam Katz.[2] At MGM he continued to produce operetta films, featuring the rich singing voices of Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, although his biggest MGM success came withThe Great Caruso (1951), a vehicle for Mario Lanza.
In the mid 1950s, Pasternak and Sam Katz set up the independent production company Euterpe,[3] which, until Pasternak’s retirement in 1968, produced 16 films distributed by MGM; among them musicals with Elvis Presley, Doris Day and Connie Francis.[4][5][6]
His career as a film producer spanned 40 years and earned him two Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations. He retired in 1968, having produced more than ninety feature-length films as well as three Academy Award shows.
Pasternak is the father of Michael Joseph Pasternak, the radio disk jockey known as Emperor Rosko; Jeff Pasternak, a playwright and songwriter; and Peter Pasternak, a music industry professional.
Death and tribute[edit]
Joe Pasternak died in Beverly Hills, California from complications arising from Parkinson’s disease six days shy of his 90th birthday. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Joe Pasternak has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1541 N. Vine Street.
Partial filmography[edit]
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1929)
Rustle of Spring (1929)
Five from the Jazz Band (1932)
The Rebel (1932)
A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
Scandal in Budapest (1933)
Peter (1934)
Spring Parade (1934)
A Precocious Girl (1934)
Little Mother (1935)
Catherine the Last (1936)
Three Smart Girls (1936)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Mad About Music (1938)
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
That Certain Age (1938)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1938)
The Under-Pup (1939)
First Love (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
It’s a Date (1940)
Spring Parade (1940)
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Seven Sinners (1940)
Nice Girl? (1940)
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Song of Russia (1944)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Music for Millions (1944)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
No Leave, No Love (1946)
The Unfinished Dance (1947)
This Time for Keeps (1947)
Three Daring Daughters (1948)
Big City (1948)
On an Island with You (1948)
A Date with Judy (1948)
Luxury Liner (1948)
The Kissing Bandit (1948)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
That Midnight Kiss (1949)
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Summer Stock (1950)
The Great Caruso (1951)
Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
The Strip (1951)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
The Merry Widow (1952)
Because You’re Mine (1952)
Small Town Girl (1953)
Latin Lovers (1953)
Easy to Love (1953)
Flame and the Flesh (1954)
The Student Prince (1954)
Athena (1954)
Hit the Deck (1955)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
This Could Be the Night (1957)
Party Girl (1958)
Ask Any Girl (1959)
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)
Where the Boys Are (1960)
The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962)
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)
A Ticklish Affair (1963)
Looking for Love (1964)
Girl Happy (1965)
Spinout (1966)
Made in Paris (1966)
Penelope (1966)
The Sweet Ride (1968)
References[edit]
Jump up^ Scott Eyman: Lion of Hollywood – The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, p.363 Linked 2014-01-28
Jump up^ Larry Ceplair, Steven Englun: The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960, p.312 Linked 2014-01-28
Jump up^ TCM: Gidget – production notes Linked 2014-01-28
Jump up^ AFI: Euterpe Productions, Inc. Linked 2014-01-28
Jump up^ AFI: Euterpe, Inc. Linked 2014-01-28
Jump up^ IMDb: Euterpe Linked 2014-01-28
External links[edit]
Joe Pasternak at the Internet Movie Database
Joe Pasternak at Find a Grave
Authority control
WorldCat IdentitiesVIAF: 100242410LCCN: n85376897ISNI: 0000 0003 5565 6712GND: 1062193342SUDOC: 129198102BNF: cb12630125q (data)BNE: XX1296434
Categories: 1901 births1991 deathsPeople from ?imleu SilvanieiPeople from the Kingdom of HungaryHungarian JewsAmerican people of Hungarian-Jewish descentAmerican film producersHungarian film producersDeaths from Parkinson’s disease20th-century American businesspeople
I watched “Destry Rides Again” on tv not long ago, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, and I realized that Mel Brooks “Blazing Saddles” is principally a satire of that film.
Azerbaijan[edit]
Max Black, philosopher
Misha Black, designer; brother of Max Black
Bella Davidovich, pianist
Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov, Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus
Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize (1962)
Lev Nussimbaum, writer (a.k.a. Kurban Said)
Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician
China[edit]
See also: History of the Jews in China
Morris Cohen, bodyguard of Sun Yat-Sen
Misha Dichter, pianist (Chinese-born)
Israel Epstein, journalist, author
Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Chinese-born; Jewish father)
Jakob Rosenfeld, doctor and general in the People’s Liberation Army
Sidney Shapiro, member of the People’s Political Consultative Council
Zhao Yingcheng (Hebrew: Moshe ben Abram), Ming dynasty mandarin
Hong Kong[edit]
Ellis, Elly, Lawrence, and Michael Kadoorie, businesspeople
Matthew Nathan, Hong Kong governor (1904)
Victor Sassoon, businessman and hotelier
India[edit]
Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli 2014 women’s world Thai kickboxing champion
Joseph Rabban, given copper plates of special grants from the Chera ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II from Kerala in South India
David Abraham Cheulkar, actor
Nissim Ezekiel, poet
J F R Jacob, former Governor of Punjab and Goa; the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command
Gerry Judah, artist and designer
Anish Kapoor, sculptor (Baghdadi Jewish mother)
Samson Kehimkar, musician
Ezekiel Isaac Malekar, Bene Israel Rabbi
Pearl Padamsee, theatre personality (part Jewish)
David and Simon Reuben, businessmen
Nadira, actress of the 1950s and 1960s.
David Sassoon, businessman
Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818 – 24 October 1896), British-Indian merchant[1]
Sassoon David Sassoon (August 1832 – 23 June 1867), Indian-born British businessman and philanthropist[2]
Solomon Sopher, Jewish community leader
Eli Ben-Menachem, Indian-born Israeli politician[3]
Ellis Kadoorie and Elly Kadoorie, philanthropists
Horace Kadoorie, philanthropist
Ruby Myers, Bollywood actress of the 1920s, otherwise known as Sulochana
Lalchanhima Sailo, rabbi
Abraham Barak Salem, Cochin Jew Indian nationalist leader
Bensiyon Songavkar, professional cricketer
Iran/Persia[edit]
Michel Abdollahi, German writer
David Alliance, British businessman
Moses ben Hanoch, rabbi
Yossi Banai, performer
Soleyman Binafard, wrestler
Jimmy Delshad, Californian politician
Roya Hakakian, writer
Moshe Katsav, Israeli president
Rita Kleinstein, Israeli singer/actress, known popularly as “Rita”
Janet Kohan-Sedq, track and field athlete
Masarjawaih[4][not in citation given]
Mashallah ibn Athari, astrologer and astronomer
Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Minister of Transportation
Bahar Soomekh, American actress
Soleiman Haim, among first compilers of Persian dictionary
Japan[edit]
Michael Kogan, founder of Taito
Ian Hideo Levy, author (Jewish father)
Leonid Kreutzer, pianist
Klaus Pringsheim, composer, conductor, music-educator
Joseph Rosenstock, conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra
Leo Sirota & Beate Sirota Gordon
Meg Okura, jazz violinist (Reform convert)
Kyrgyzstan[edit]
Alexander Mashkevich, businessman (Kyrgyz-born)
Singapore[edit]
David Marshall, Chief Minister
Sri Lanka[edit]
Sidney Abrahams, Chief Justice
Hedi Keuneman, political activist
Leonard Woolf, administrative officer and author
Tajikistan[edit]
Rena Galibova, actress, “People’s Artist of Tajikistan”
Malika Kalantarova, dancer, “People’s Artist of Soviet Union”
Fatima Kuinova, singer, “Merited Artist of the Soviet Union”
Shoista Mullodzhanova, shashmakon singer, “People’s Artist of Tajikistan” (viewed as the Queen of Tajik music)
Moses Znaimer, TV producer
Uzbekistan[edit]
Ari Babakhanov, musician
Yefim Bronfman, pianist
Lev Leviev, diamond tycoon
Ilyas Malayev, musician and poet
Shlomo Moussaieff (businessman), Israeli businessman
Shlomo Moussaieff (rabbi), co-founder of the Bukharian Quarter in Jerusalem
Gavriel Mullokandov, shashmakom artist, “People’s Artist of Uzbekistan”
Suleiman Yudakov, composer and musician, “People’s Artist of the Soviet Union”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Jews
I googled “Israpundit Soros” looking for my earlier post about Soros. Found these terrific articles:
Especially:
“The Jewish People vs George Soros”
https://www.israpundit.org/archives/30402
George Soros: (Helping Nazis) “Was The Happiest Time of my Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Qr7TnWG74
Better a Jew-loving Christian than a Self-Hating Jew for President (or anything else).
Here are some Hungarian Jews I am proud of (besides my father and and cousin)
Tivadar (Theodore) Herzl
Janos Starker (Cellist)
Harry Houdini (magician)
Joe Pasternak (produced all those great Hollywood films with lots of singing and dancing during the golden age. google them
for wikipedia articles.
Films and stage[edit]
George Cukor film director[24]
Tony Curtis; his parents were born in Mátészalka.
Michael Curtiz, born Manó Kertész Kaminer, film director
Judit Elek, film director and screenwriter[25]
Béla Gaál film director[26]
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Viktor Gertler film editor and director[26]
Harry Houdini
Leslie Howard’s father was born in Hungary
Alexander Korda, born Sándor László Kellner, brother of Vincent and Zoltan Korda, film producer and director[27]
Vincent Korda, born Vincent Kellner, brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda, art director[27]
Zoltán Korda, born Zoltán Kellner, brother of Alexander and Vincent Korda, film screenwriter, director, and producer[27]
Peter Lorre
Paul Newman’s father was born in Hungary, as was his Catholic mother.
Joe Pasternak
Emeric Pressburger
S. Z. Sakall
István Szabó, film director, screenwriter, and opera director[28]
István Székely film director[26]
Alexandre Trauner
Rachel Weisz’s father was born in Hungary.
Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
Actors[edit]
Google any list of Jews from anywhere and you will find famous contributors:
Notable Tunisian Jews[edit]
Max Azria, fashion designer
Alain Boublil, French lyricist and librettist
Serge Bramly, French writer and essayist
Elsa Cayat, French psychoanalyst and columnist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
Claude Challe, French DJ and club owner
Pierre Darmon, French tennis player
Gregg L. Friedman MD, Physician
Yehuda Getz, rabbi of the Western Wall in Jerusalem
Mathilda Guez, Israeli politician
William Karel, French film director and author
Élie Lellouche, French trainer of thoroughbred racehorses and jockeys
Ofer Lellouche, Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher, and video artist
Pierre Lellouche, French politician
Hayyim Madar, Chief Rabbi of Tunisia
Alain Mamou-Mani, French film producer and writer
Menahem Mazuz, justice of the Supreme Court of Israel and former attorney general
Albert Memmi, French author and essayist
Nine Moati, French novelist
Serge Moati, French artist, journalist, film director, and writer
Victor Perez, boxer and World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932 who died in the Auschwitz death march
Jacques Saada, Canadian politician and former cabinet minister
Philippe Séguin, French politician and former president of the National Assembly and Court of Audit
Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician
Joseph Sitruk, former Chief Rabbi of France
David Tal, Israeli politician
Haydée Tamzali, silent-era filmmaker
Avraham Tiar, Israeli politician
Aharon Uzan, Israeli politician
Georges Wolinski, French cartoonist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
Ariel Zeitoun, French director, producer and screenwriter
Nissim Zvili, Israeli politician and former ambassador to France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Tunisia
try it.
We are indeed a light unto the nations.
God’s gift to the world. (not sure if there is a God(*), but I’m sure we’re a gifted gift to humanity.)
Try it with any group of Jews from anywhere. Just google “famous…Jews”
I read that Leon Uris wrote Exodus in disgust at the self-loathing nonsense that passed for Jewish literature. Here, Here. Be PROUD. Or go away quietly.
I’m no longer a Leninist but he was a witty guy. This applies:
“… And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh! ”
Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “Dogmatism And ‘Freedom of Criticism’” (1901)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/quotes.htm
Our greatest strength is our greatest weakness. Self-criticism. It’s a two-edged sword and must be wielded carefully. It’s because the Tanakh is so self-critical that Israel was born and remains a democracy. It’s also the cause of a lot of anti-semitism and self-hatred.
But, as my late sister discovered, working behind the counter of a bakery, if you smile a lot when you don’t mean it, after a while you really do start to feel better. The tail does wag the dog. Maybe that’s a reason why Judaism values actions more than beliefs.
—
(*)Another answer I sometimes give when people ask me my religion. I say, I’m a filial son. My mother believes in reincarnation and my father believed in nothing. So, some days I believe in reincarnation and other days I believe in nothing.
@ stevenl:
one can only hope
@ honeybee:
Perhaps we may learn something!
stevenl Said:
Oh you poked SZ’s somewhat pompous balloon !!
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Can U tell US anything about Soros antisemitism?
Sebastien Zorn Said:
We belong to the same Synagogue.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
No problem whatsoever!
Walter Matthau
a history of Kosher Slaughtering in America pub in NY in Hebrew in 1948 by Abraham Koplowitz, my great-grand father who also founded the labor union in that profession and built a synagogue in Brooklyn:
http://browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/search/C__Sabraham%20koplowitz__Orightresult__U?lang=eng
Melekhet ha-k?odesh : le-toldot ha-sheh?it?ah veha-bedik?ah be-Nyu-York? / Segunan v?e-ne?erakh be-hosafot u-melu?im ?al yad Shekhna St?ein, v?e-nilveh ma?amar ?al ha-Yahadut be-?Amerik?ah be-kelal ????? ????? : ??????? ?????? ??????? ????-???? / ????? ????? ??????? ??????? ?”? ???? ?????, ????? ???? ?? ?????? ??????? ????
Koplowitz, Abraham Jacob.
BOOK/TEXT | 1948
Available at SASB M2 – Dorot Jewish Division – Room 111 (*PYG (Koplowitz, A.J. Melekhet ha-kodesh. 1948)) see all
My father was a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor, labor camp escapee, and Jewish resistance fighter who escaped Communist Hungary along with his first cousin who survived Auschwitz and her new husband, also a labor camp escapee. They both saved many lives. My father’s cousin was Raoul Wallenberg’s switchboard operator. My father organized other young Jews posing as Nazis to survive to face off against the real Nazis and protect Jews from them during the Siege of Budapest. All of their relatives in Hungary were murdered (I was going to say the usual euphemism”they lost”. Really? Did they look under the bed?)
My mother’ s family on all sides were Litvaks (Lithuainian Jews who lived mostly in what is now Lithuania and Belarus) (two extended families of whom) formed a family organization to bring everybody over to America they could over the course of the entire 19th century because they saw the handwriting on the wall. It was all part of the Russian Empire and sometimes Poland. The borders kept changing and the Jews were segregated and needed permits to travel two feet.
Of those who remained, nearly all were murdered by Germans together with their Christian Neighbors on the spot.
Walter Matthau, a famous Litvak, used to give a different wise-ass answer every time somebody asked him his ethnicity.
The list of famous Litvaks (of Litvak descent) is not to be believed. Google it: Partial list from memory that I googled and found in different places:
Jascha Heifetz
Aaron Copland
Marc Chagall
Al Jolson
Sascha Baron Cohen
Walter Matthau
Harrison Ford
Lisa Kudrow (of “Friends)
Kiss (singer)
Theodore Caplow (sociologist)
Joe Slovo(and many of the Key people who helped Mandela throughout his life and the anti-apartheid struggle)
Don Rickles
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Emma Goldman
Elvis
Netanyahu (and his brother Binyamin who died leading the raid on Entebbe and his famous historian father)
Ehud Barak
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Very partial list of famous Litvaks I googled off different websites – from memory
Menachim Begin
Moshe Arens
Chaim Weitzmann
Charles Bronson
Jon Stewart
Larry King
Sir Laurence Harvey
Melvin Douglas
Kirk and Michael Douglas
Brian Epstein (the Beatles stage manager who was inducted into the R&R Hall of fame)
Michael Bloomberg
It’s true what they say: “No good deed goes unpunished.”
“Before World War II, the Lithuanian Jewish population was some 160,000, about 7% of the total population. Vilnius (then Wilno in the Second Polish Republic) had a Jewish community of nearly 100,000, about 45% of the city’s total population.
Lithuanian Jews – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_JewsWikipedia”
But, hats off to Chiuni Sugihara, the “Japanese Schindler” (really Wallenberg) who saved five times as many Jews as Schindler but isn’t as well known. Movies rule, don’t you know?
Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara’s actions saved five times as many people as Oskar Schindler, made famous in the film “Schindler’s List.”
Israel honors Japanese ‘Schindler’
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-honors-Japans-Schindler-who-saved-thousands-of-Jews-in-WWII-456199
also see Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara
He was a Japanese Christian. So don’t be prejudiced when other Christians hold out their hand to us.
“It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
Lin Yutang https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang
I have a joke about that:
About the thousandth and one time that somebody asked me what I ate when I was growing up — often on a job, I am a free-lance classical musician — I finally grokked [from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, google it — popular term in the ’60s] to the fact that it was just another sneaky way of asking if I was Jewish. So, I came up with the following boiler plate answer:
I come from a typical assimilated Central and Eastern European Jewish family from the Upper West Side so I grew up eating Chinese and Indian. I said this to a Puerto Rican friend of mine, who said, “We ate Puerto Rican food at home when I was little and then as soon as I was old enough to have a little pocket money, my home away from home became McDonalds.
And then, I remembered, “yeah, me, too. As soon as I was old enough to have a little pocket money, typical American kid, my home from home became McDonalds, too!”
But, you know, when you get older, you become more traditional, more conservative. So, I’ve gone back to eating Chinese and Indian.
Then again, here’s another answer I like to give when people ask me my heritage. I’m a Thousand-Islander. Yup, I’m one of the Thousand Island people because you are what you eat. Except, of course in those parts of the world where a cursory glance at the headlines would inform you that you are who you eat.
Just kidding, of course. “it’s Whom!” Grammars important, you know. I asked her just this morning. Or if I would have if she hadn’t been murdered at Auschwitz, along with my all of my paternal grand-parents, great-grand-parents and assorted great uncles and aunts, cousins, totalling about 20 people.
Sometimes, when people ask me my religion, I say, “I am a strict, orthodox devout contrarian from a long line of devout, orthodox contrarians — none of whom got along with their fathers either.
Now, that I’m on a roll, this one offends absolutely everybody
This one offends absolutely:
Traditional Passover Haggadah: In every generation, they rise up to destroy us.
American Jewish parody: They tried to kill us. They failed. Let’s eat.
My version: Let’s never forget Ann Frank’s Mom’s putative (assumed, made up) words: “SS mein kindt.”
More informative: I come from an ultra-liberal family, and I believed all of the lies about Israel being an Apartheid state in the ’80s before I discovered Palestinian Media Watch http://www.pmw.org and heard what the paleo-arabs were really saying to each other in arabic and witnessed the Oslo war — (massacre) — when they were offered nearly everything they said they wanted. I’m a second thoughter, like David Horowitz. And I studied the history of propaganda at City College. Over 40 courses in History. Though I didn’t go on to become a Professor because I saw the handwriting on the wall. My politics had changed, and there was no room for a non-leftist. Leonard Jeffried was there, when I was there and I watched the left whitewash the Crown Heights pogrom as a popular uprising against racist oppression. So, I decided to fiddle while rome burns. Anybody Got a problem with it?
P.S.
I have relatives in Judea and Samaria who I connected with when my sister died and my mother’s first cousin — who made aliya during the 6 day war and worked on engineering robot planes — came all the way from Israel when my sister died in a fire. They are living overcrowded or unable to live close to each other because Jews aren’t able to get a permit in the Jewish Homeland! Ha Ha Ha! not.
Here are some distant relatives on my mother’s side, I didn’t necessarily know personally, I’m rather proud of:
Double click on the record cover for liner notes: http://jewishmusiccollections.org/asjm/items/show/797
Title
Living Prayers
Creator
Caplow, Aaron
Publisher
NA
Identifier
CAP_001
Description
1 sound disc; digital stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Album ID has been assigned to this CDCD features male choir conducted by Seymour BrennerProgram and biographical notes in English on container.
Format
CD
Collection
The Charlie Bernhaut Collection of Jewish and Cantorial Recordings
and http://seymourbrody.com/generals/gen-adm71.htm
Jewish Generals and Admirals in America’s Military
Major General Melvin L. Krulewitch:
A Hero in World War I and
World War II
by Seymour “Sy” Brody
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Thank you for participating in our discussions.
Please us a little about yourself.
or these:
Kurt Waldheim dies at 88; ex-UN chief hid Nazi past
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/europe/14iht-waldheim.3.6141106.html
As usual, the NY Times, contradicts and exposes itself within the same article:
UPITN 20 9 77 EURABIA MEETING [waldheim -UN Gen Sec’tary from 1972 to 1982 presides over Euro-Arab Group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r06OIie88Q
Eurabia The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMx16duLjSw
Clarification: Here is the source for the study that shows that Isis attracts more educated people not the poor.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=71556
The article about the Czech sports team named “Cyklon B”, said that the adults concerned needed to be educated. It was a misunderstanding, don’t you know? This is what I said when I initially forwarded the article about the children’s sports team named after the poison gas with which our people were murdered: “Ignorance? No. Euro-trash liberals are the grand-children of the monsters who murdered 6 million Jews. When they criticize Israel they are just trying to help the Muslim Nazis finish the job . This is the true face of the U.N, the E.U. and the Obama/Clinton crowd over here. “
Ignorance my eye. Time to close the doors. I don’t want these people here:
Czech children’s sports team called “Cyklon B” played a Romani team last weekend, organizers apologize
http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-children-s-sports-team-called-cyklon-b-played-a-romani-team-last-weekend-organizers-apologize-2
or these:
Excerpts: ISIS recruits more educated. Former US attorney general
almost without exception, fighters joining ISIS in Syria and Iraq-based
forces had several more years of education in their home countries – whether
in Europe, Africa or elsewhere in the Middle East – than the average
citizen.
The data shows clearly, the report said, that “poverty is not a driver of
radicalization into violent extremism.â€
or these:
LA School Superintendent Mohammed Z. Islam Retreats – Withdraws Assignment Claiming Holocaust A Hoax
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/05/la-public-school-superintendent-mohammed-z-islam-back-peddles-assignment-claiming-holocaust-a-hoax/
or these:
Radicalised Islamists to be sent to re-education camps as France tackles ‘biggest security threat since HITLER’
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/radicalised-islamists-sent-re-education-7939978
If they decide that discriminating against violent bigots is against the Constitution, then let’s just shut the doors to everyone. Period.
Multiculturalism may successfully destroy Europe!!!
When we think about, the birth of the USA and Israel were in reaction to the European/USSR madness and visceral antisemitism.
When people refuse to define and respect a code of ethics, what is there to defend, Materialism???