Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

Glen Greenwald: Just since last Friday night, 72 hours ago, several of America's most accomplished academic institutions – including Harvard, Columbia, and NYU – saw increasingly aggressive attempts to punish, fire and silence, not students, but academics and professors, for the crime of opposing Israel: all as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly celebrates his control over the discourse on American campuses. We are – according to the Trump administration itself – only at the beginning, nowhere near the end, of the systemic assault on free thought in American academia: the place free thought is supposed to thrive most robustly. What's most amazing of all is that this free speech attack is not being waged in defense of Americans or American values, but instead in defense of a foreign country often cheered most by those who call themselves part of the America First movement, a staggering irony among many.   Deportations of students who denounced or protested the Isra...

Do I think it’s better to be in Eretz Yisroel because of the Nazi march in Skokie. And I say it’s a very big error because America is just as secure as Eretz Yisroel. Now I won’t say America is less secure than Eretz Yisroel or Eretz Yisroel is more secure. Because nobody knows what’s secure. The fact that the Nazi marched in Skokie, it’s ridiculous because of that to say therefore I’m going to flee. There’s no place to run to. You run to Eretz Yisroel, what’s going to happen? More people have died in Eretz Yisroel from the terrorists than have died in America from murderers…. Wherever you go, Jews are urged to leave. In New York, they say it’s not safe. You have a lunatic who is inviting and wishing Jews go home. Go home where? Where is home? Eretz Yisroel is not home yet. It’s just as unsafe as any other place. And it’s a propaganda for the purpose of getting the Jews to go to the one big mouse trap.  Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tape #221. The march was in 1978. I was 15 years old when...

  Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler describing the essentials of the Nazi state: "The state form, the army. and the civil service formed the basis for the old Reich's wonderful  power and strength." (Mein Kampf, Vol. I, chapter 10) Adolf Hitler describing army service in Nazi Germany, May 1, 1934: "a national and social melting pot for the education of a new German human being."   (Daily Life in Hitler's Germany, Dr. Matthew Seligman, Dr. John Davison, John MacDonald, Thomas Dunne Books, p. 168) Hitler also predicated citizenship on army service:  " The rights of citizenship shall be conferred on every young man whose health and character have been certified as good, after having completed his period of military service.  This act of inauguration in citizenship shall be a solemn ceremony. And the diploma conferring the rights of citizenship will be preserved by the young man as the most precious testimonial of his whole life. It entitles him to exercise all th...

It is difficult to find high culture in Israel. The museum that houses a little bit of art is open around 20 hours a week, and is impossible to get to. As for classical music, you were thinking Heifetz, Rubinstein, and Bernstein, a country full of Jews will produce many more of them. No. Those were Jews raised in European societies (I'm including Boston of two generations ago in that). Jews are good at taking whatever gentiles do to the next level. So Israel is in the Middle-east. There, we take humas, shouting, religious extremism, torture, and destruction of enemies to the next level, not classical music. When I was a kid, the news made such a big deal out of the ISO (Israeli Symphony Orchestra) playing Wagner that you'd think that the ISO was a big deal. But is wasn't. Certainly it isn't now. Maybe when there were European born people here it mattered a bit, but not now. The reason Wagner made news was mostly because it was a topic of outrage which is still the natio...

Doesn't that sound wonderful, after all it has the word Jerusalem in it?  Actually, it's terrible, this city covered in beige. You can lose your mind from the blandness of it all. Beit Shemesh also has a rule, all buildings must be in Jerusalem stone. Everything the same, the same color. That's some democracy. Every building must conform to a government mandate not for safety but for color.  You look out on the city and just feel boredom. It has the aura of Soviet housing.  I'm told that Chabad built a few 770 replicas in Jerusalem and has to pay a million shekels a year in fines. I can't confirm but it wouldn't surprise me. Nothing surprises me here except the rare act of common sense.  Compare to Greenland And Ireland And Paris