Jewish Materialism
Editor’s Note: The following essay is excerpted from When Victims Rule, online at Jewish Tribal Review. The title is mine. I have deleted JTR’s in-text citations.Jewish pride and concern for status and material affluence has a long history. There is a Yiddish word for it: yicchus, which connotes the traditional Jewish importance of personal and familial prestige,...
Read MoreMoney-Changers in the Temple:
Jews and the Sacred
Editor’s Note: The following essay on the pervasive Jewish tendency to inject money and commerce into religion is excerpted from When Victims Rule, chapter 5, “Yicchus (Status),” on the Jewish Tribal Review website. I have removed the in-text citations for easier reading and added the title. So great is the Jewish “commercial spirit,” so omnipresent,...
Read MoreJewish Character Traits in Israel
Editor’s Note: The following essay provides useful background for understanding the hateful Jewish reactions to Barack Obama’s visit to Cairo seen in Max Blumenthal’s YouTube video “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem.” Perhaps Harold Covington’s characterization of Israel as “a vast, open-air madhouse” sums it up the best. The essay was...
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