These findings indicate major attempts within traditional Jewish communities
as well as contemporary Orthodox and Hasidic communities to socialize
children to the group. However, these efforts are also apparent in much less
traditional Jewish groups. In Chapter 4, it was noted that Judaism in
contemporary American society may be viewed as a civil religion. Perhaps
because of the lessening prevalence of many of the traditional segregating
mechanisms that have facilitated group cohesion over the centuries, the civil
religion goes to great lengths to prevent group defection, especially by attempts
to strengthen Jewish education. Those who do defect are simply written off, and
group continuity and integrity are maintained by a central core of highly
committed individuals. Because of the assimilatory pressures from the
surrounding society, great importance is placed on "the recognition of Jewish
education as the most vital element in the preservation of the Jewish people"
(Woocher 1986, 34). Similarly, Elazar (1980) notes that the drive for more
intensive Jewish education, including an increasing emphasis on Jewish day schools, was motivated by "the clearly pressing problems of assimilation" (p.
211).
Jewish identification is also actively facilitated by encouraging trips to Israel
by high school and college students, and, indeed, Elazar refers to Israel as "the
central focus of American Jewish educational effort" (p. 291). Woocher (1986,150) notes that the trips to Israel are often overlaid with "mythic" overtones
from Jewish history (p.150) (e.g., visits to holocaust memorials) and have as
their goal increased commitment to a Jewish identification on the part of the
visitors. The retreats function as a sort of religious experience, which attempts
to effect attitude change by removing participants from their normal lives; by
emphasizing group-oriented activities and a sense of community, nostalgia, and
"specialness"; and by renewing commitment to group identification and group
goals (pp. 151-52). Woocher (1986) also stresses the importance of the General
Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations as a major civil religious event
that functions to foster Jewish identification and a strong sense of community.
The Culture of Critique, pg. xxxii
Jews are at the extreme of this Middle Eastern tendency toward hypercollectivism and hyper-ethnocentrism—a phenomenon that goes a long way
toward explaining the chronic hostilities in the area. I give many examples of
Jewish hyper-ethnocentrism in my trilogy and have suggested in several places
that Jewish hyper-ethnocentrism is biologically based (MacDonald 1994, Ch. 8;
1998a, Ch. 1). It was noted above that individualist European cultures tend to be
more open to strangers than collectivist cultures such as Judaism. In this regard,
it is interesting that developmental psychologists have found unusually intense
fear reactions among Israeli infants in response to strangers, while the opposite
pattern is found for infants from North Germany.14 The Israeli infants were much
more likely to become “inconsolably upset” in reaction to strangers, whereas the
North German infants had relatively minor reactions to strangers. The Israeli
babies therefore tended to have an unusual degree of stranger anxiety, while the
North German babies were the opposite—findings that fit with the hypothesis
that Europeans and Jews are on opposite ends of scales of xenophobia and
ethnocentrism.
Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Katy Perry, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried all share the same Jewish man. And they’re on the record about their ardor for him.
I grew up in a typical Ashkenazi household. My bubbe actually lived with us. She’d make us the traditional colorless, beige, heavy foods: chicken soup, kreplach, gefilte fish, tzimmes. She would make stuffed peppers, kishke and cabbage rolls. She’d also cook flanken soup with marrow bones. I was told if I ate what was inside the bones, it would put hair on my chest. Now we know it’s just an artery blocker.
Sacks, 50, who was born into a Jewish family, hosted a fundraiser for DeSantis in San Francisco in 2021. Here are some more things to know about him.
He defended Musk last week when the Twitter CEO took heat for comparing Jewish billionaire George Soros, a Holocaust survivor, to the comic book supervillain Magneto. The Anti-Defamation League deemed the comparison antisemitic and has long warned that conspiracy theories about Soros are steeped in anti-Jewish bigotry.
He affected a high-pitched voice to describe the “Jewish mother panic” he confronted after leaving his consulting firm for the tech sector. “Oh, my God, you’re quitting your job and joining a startup!” he said on the Panic With Friends podcast in 2021.
Hardly, you could have made the same video for white people.
You could not make that video for white people. There are no meaningful white organizations left, and none of them would ever say "the Irish were some of the biggest proponents of homosexuality in history"
Like who?
Asians, who have a higher IQ than Jews. Or Episcopalians, another quasi-religious, highly ethnic group (WASPs).
Well, it's not an invention. But mostly that you were talking about 'movements that were invented'. Movements aren't invented, they are started. Doesn't even matter, I just thought it was off.
This is pointless. Karl Marx is widely acknowledged as the founder of Marxism and Communism, Boaz respectively with anthropology, and Freud with psychoanalysis. Use whatever word you want, they are responsible for those disciplines, economic philosophies, schools of thought.
Jewish academic and founder of non-denomination education institute Barbara Spectre plainly states that Jews are leading Europe into a "multicultural transformation" and "will be resented for that role"
A People That Shall Dwell Alone, pg. 217
The Culture of Critique, pg. xxxii
Jewish magazine promoting Kanye's CIA handler/personal trainer simply because he's Jewish
The same paper evaluating the Jewish ethnocentrism of a guy managing DeSantis' presidential announcement
You could not make that video for white people. There are no meaningful white organizations left, and none of them would ever say "the Irish were some of the biggest proponents of homosexuality in history"
Asians, who have a higher IQ than Jews. Or Episcopalians, another quasi-religious, highly ethnic group (WASPs).
This is pointless. Karl Marx is widely acknowledged as the founder of Marxism and Communism, Boaz respectively with anthropology, and Freud with psychoanalysis. Use whatever word you want, they are responsible for those disciplines, economic philosophies, schools of thought.