I Never Really Get Feedback On These Posts....

I've gotten some spam comments that I can't mark as spam and leave up for anyone to see at their own behest like I can do with spam comments on YouTube. But on any given post, with few exceptions, I've gotten less than 20 views total, no comments, and no other response. I've also gotten no votes but my own onm the polls which I've put up. What gives?

So I Found Krystal "Krystal Keith" Covel's Twitter Account, But...

I really don't see her promoting it (See @KrystalKeith.). She's also, for example, using her dad's name and not her family name ("Covel") or married name ("Sandubrae"), and her first single is a song that she wrote for her wedding-- "Daddy Dance With Me". She even is on her dad's label and she isn't breaking out as much as she could be even on the label:

 "”She sang all her life, of course. But getting in the studio, she was a little anxious. She sang her butt off today.” He adds, “I’ve never worked in the studio with her very much. When we did ‘Mockingbird,’ I wasn’t there for when she laid her vocals down.” So is dad pretty easy on his little girl? Keith admits, “Unfairly, I’m probably a little harder on her. But the other artists came in and I said, ‘I won’t step in too much until you guys ask me to.’ And with her it’s like she wants me to take the lead on it.”"

You can Google if you want to read more about Krystal. But unless Krystal makes some major changes, she'll be known only as Toby Keith's daughter and not as a country singer in her own right.

We Stopped Talking Because...

And here are a few to whom I've stopped talking, and we stopped talking because:

1. You're a liar & a murderer. You hurt me, your other granddaughters, your great-granddaughter (not Madison, and she's not Great-Grandma Czarnecki's great-granddaughter), Great-Grandma Czarnecki (your good, Jewish Evangelical Catholic mother), your now-former in-law daughters, and your daughter, Mary (not "Mary Jo". Get used to that she dropped "Jo(an)" a long time ago.).
2. You're a Far-Right ideologue and agnostic who persecutes my sister for her faith, and why she continues to hang around you is beyond me. And your Apsberger's is no excuse, whether you use it or deny it as an excuse. I have OCD/Anxiety/Depression and possible Aspberger's myself, and I don't act like you do.
3. Both of you started hanging around Chris Dick. For the life of me-- or rather for the lives of yourselves, you couldn't have kept better company?
4. You care for your music more than you do your cousins. Get used to that I was reviewing your music and using it in a Fair Use way. See if I ever like mjturner916 again. In fact, I would've encouraged people to boycott you if I weren't generous enough.
5. You defended Great-Grandma Gaydos and acted like our trief eating-- besides getting away from our Jewish heritage otherwise-- has nothing to do with why many of us are sick and/or have thorns in the flesh. You're cursed, too, because of what Great-Grandma did and how you'd defend you once you'd found out-- I mean, your divorce and remarriage happened before either one of us (or at least I) knew about what Great-Grandma did. I honestly would not be surprised if you somehow knew beforehand and G-d cursed you with one divorce because of that.
6. You're not proud of our Jewish heritage-- and you might even be like Janet. Good riddance, Kristy and Ally.
7. You removed me. Sorry, but get used to it: your in-law-granduncle Jack is a murderer and murderer your husband's grandmother; and we're Jewish, so get used to it. I hope that you decide to raise Tony the Fourth and the girls with more integrity than your granduncle Jack has ever had. In fact, I hope that you take after your in-law dad and do even better.

Several Reasons Why I'm An Introvert-- Not Anti Social, By the Way

1. The fighting-- for example, my mom and my extrovert sister were fighting as my sister was finalizing plans for tonight (She's going to a friend's birthday party.). There's too much fighting with self and others-- the conflict with others such as Mom and Michelle fighting, the conflict with self such as trying to figure out what to wear, how to style hair, etc.
2. My disability-- Brian Ferrick knows what I'm talking about, and he's an example of (for a lack of a term, and excuse my incivilty) a so-to-speak "weasel". He damned well knows that he didn't invite me to that one event because he didn't want to make accomdations for me-- and he's a weasel especially for trying to make excuses for it and not apologizing. Besides, especially because of the Brian Ferricks in and of this world, to do what everyone else is doing-- i.e., dancing-- is both physically and socially hard; and in terms of the social aspect, you're a saint or a liar if you say otherwise: how many of you would honestly dance with the girl with Cerebral Palsy, or chat with the girl with Spina Bifida?
3. The fallout from all that I've had to deal with besides my disability.
4. The fact that I'm a Jewish Christian, conservative-but-Non-Far-Right Republican. Most of my peers are either Far Right or Far Left, Drudge or ABC/CNN/CBS/(MS)NBC/BBC, Rush Limbaugh or "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report", and otherwise-polarized people. I don't look forward to being perceived as the "fundamentalist" and "right wing" (in a derogatory way) or "libtard" and "Christian and Republican In Name Only" guest at the party.
5. My family gatherings are enough, and my family exemplifies the aforementioned and following reasons well.
6. Much of the food-- I'm a kosher foodie. If you offer pork and sauerkraut, I may take it; but I would prefer that you offer all kosher and organic food without artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, etc..
7. The noise and music-- I'm not interested in Slipknot, the more-recent stuff from Toby Keith, etc.
8. The uselessness of being social when all I enjoy at parties is the food, picture and video recording, and a few other things, anyway; and that sense of loneliness.

A Jewish Evangelical Catholic Shares the Struggle of an Evangelical Catholic Thailander Against Roman Catholicism

Aron Ben Gil'ad gives us insight into an Evangelical Catholic Thailander's struggle against Roman Catholicism. Keep in mind that I have made the distinction between Evangelical and Non-Evangelical (Regular, Actual Orthodox) Roman Catholicism several times. Evangelical Catholics-- even if they share differences with us Non Catholics (e.g., Protestants and Anabaptists), Jewish and gentile, re Miryam Ha'Almah v'Ima shel Yeshua, Kefa, etc.-- believe the following:

1. The inerrancy of Tanakh
2. That Tanakh ze d'var l'dvar shel Adonai, lo shel ha'ishim u ishot (i.e., Tanakh is ad verbatim from G-d, not any words of any man or human)
3. That enumah, lo avodot, ze haderekh el yeshuat (i.e., faith, not works, is the way to salvation)

And I could go on, but you get the point.

Anyway, here's part of what the Thailander Evangelical Catholic struggled against:

"He was liked and respected by his priests until he had a conversion to orthodox Catholicism. Most of his priests turned on him except for a handful. Any one who knows the church in Thailand knows that its priests are very arrogant and full of their own importance. They all want to be in charge of big Catholic Schools that have over 90 percent Buddhist teachers and students not because they have a missionary spirit but because they want to make money. Many of the priests have girlfriends or boyfriends and are not very spiritual at all. They have no sense of mission (even to the refugees in camps on the borders of Thailand)."

The Thailander bishop actually converted to Evangelical, and away from Orthodox, Catholicism (Given that I went to the Orthodox Roman Catholic College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and come from Anusi v'Katoli families, I should know.). The Thailander bishop dealt with a similar problem to that at Notre Dame and in the rest of the Roman Catholic Church-- they do not believe in the inerrancy of the Word of G-d, target Evangelical (Christian) Catholics and Non Catholics as "fundamentalists" (in the derogatory sense; and at Notre Dame, "fundamentalists" were often very persecuted), and specifically fill their institution with Non-Evangelical Roman Catholic and even other Non-Messianic (Non-Christian) people.

By the way, for example; I can name you a Non-Messianic professor who teaches at Notre Dame and openly admitted that he is not a Christian: Dr. Alan Walden, and Dr. Walden was one of the very few people at Notre Dame by whom I not even at all persecuted (though we had our disagreements and tiffs, none of which were persecutory) and for whom I had kavod. As much as we have the First Amendment and the Vatican is their own schtick; Dr. Walden, Buddhists, and other Non Messianics would not be hired at Roman Catholic schools were Roman Catholicism actually Christianity.

And the Evangelical Catholic Thailander bishop faced Roman Catholic opposition to Tanakh for all of his days. I just hope that Aron ben Gil'ad understands that he and the Thailander bishop have been among the very few Evangelical (Christian) Catholics throughout history.

Can There Be A Nonpartisan Feminist Movement? Likely Not

On one hand, you have the creeps at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (e.g., Dr. Jeanne Del Rosso, a total creep and Dr. Susan Barber-- both Anti-Protestant, anti-moderate, anti-conservative, Anti-Republican creeps), NARAL, Feministing, and the Women's Media Center. On the other hand, you have the Ann Coulters, Michelle Malkins, and Sarah Palins; who Dr. Del Rosso and Dr. Barber love to lump people like me in with (and I may be being a grump here again, but they were maybe even Feminazis. Ann Coulter's also a Feminazi, and a plan Nazi-- or rather, a female Ron Paul-- nonetheless, creepy).

This Is Why I'm Not A Mathematician...

How can I have 406 Facebook friends, 235 Twitter followers, 192 YouTube subscribers and a ton of YouTube Friends, yet only 44 people who like my Facebook page? And I can't "Like" my own page until 70 other people "Like" it. So, here I have a potential of at least (since some Facebook friends are also Twitter followers, and a few already like my page) about... let's say... (406 + 235 + 192 + 388 - 3 =) 1218 likes, and 44/1218 is about 3.6% of my "Like"s potential.

So, where I am going wrong on ganering only 3.6% of "Like"s out of "Like"s potential?

"HaTikvah"... And Gadaffi's Death Remind Me of Great-Grandma Gaydos' Own...

Gaddafi was an Anti Semite, Great-Grandma Gaydos a traitor. And I still want to apologize to the Rusznyaks who themselves and whose aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. did not get to live to sing "HaTikvah" and rejoice that another Anti Semite is gone. I especially apologize for Great-Grandma herself and her cover-upers and defenders. Our side of the family has just as much blood as Gaddafi did on his hands and as much as the Lybian rebels have on their hands until we admit and apologize for what Great-Grandma did.

East Med Sea Peace Said It Best

Or at least said it better than I did. I should've mentioned that the Putim treated Gaddafi no better than the Pleshetim treated Sha'ul Hamelekh shel Yisra'el.

Can You Imagine How Graphic the bin Laden Death Pictures Were?

The Gaddafi ones were graphic enough to affect me to think, "Couldn't they just have chucked Gaddafi's body into the sea?" They chucked bin Laden's in. Instead of being animalistic or worse than animals quite frankly, they should've had the dignity to at least remember that even Gaddafi was human-- and I guess that's what makes the US and some other countries different, too; by the way: we still even treat the most wicked and vile people with respect when they die. Remember that, also, human nature is so that none of us is better than Gaddafi or bin Laden save grace-- only grace keeps us from becoming Gaddafis or bin Laden.

The ADL and Susan Sarandon? At First, It Seemed Unusual; Then...

I came to realize were Benedict XVI a creationist, Evangelical Catholic, pro-death-penalty, pro-Israel, and conservative "pope" (Vatican City Head of State); the ADL would've never defended Benedict XVI against Susan Sarandon. As Benedict XVI is; he's even warned against believing in creationism and is a Non-Evangelical Catholic (e.g., warning against creationism), anti-death-penalty (So I guess that he's against Jesus taking the death penalty for us?), Anti Semitic (e.g., He once allowed a conference calling for Jews not to be in "Palestine".), and liberal.

By the way, at 15, he did not have to join (I can't believe that I'm even uttering the name of) the hate group known as the "Hitler Youth": he could've ran away and risked his life. He was well past confirmation and bar-mitzvah ages (given that 12 or 13 makes even a gentile old enough to be a bar mitzvah, or an adult), and he knew better. A much-older, with-more-to-lose Oskar Schindler risked his life, didn't he? Given that Benedict knew enough to know that joining hate groups even if the state requires it is wrong, he surely would've been judged for that had he lost his life.

A Rant About Education, and Some Examples

To begin, I don't see why my mom made me take Statistics. Since I wasn't going back to Notre Dame after all, and I'm not a Math major or aspiring pollster or statician; to have me take Statistics was pointless. Computer Forensics, I can see. Introduction to Corrections-- the only problem is the pompus, know-it-all, macher professor (I'll write more later; so, keep reading.). But Statistics-- as Albert Einstein stated,  "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." (Toda el I <3 Hebrew.)

As for the pompus professor (I have no problem naming names.): Dr. Traurig. I mean, the professor wants us to memorize everything from the book, for example-- forget real-world application, for which he'll actually deduct points from a student's grade; even if said student has been to a four-year college, by the way. Meanwhile, that's why I like his colleague Dr. Del Rosario better-- she gets that education isn't about indoctrination and regurgitation, but about learning and application.

He's also admitted that he might've had "too much to drink" when grading assignments sometimes, and he mocks the Bible and G-d. For example, I pointed out that Drakon and the Britons didn't come up with the punishment to fit the crime, weirgild, and lex talions: Torah did. He stated that if someone wanted to get right with G-d, they come to me; but if they wanted to deal with criminal justice otherwise (or something like that)....

By the way, I absolutely intended the pun on "macher"-- self-proclaimed maven, Mr. Know-It-All. So, he's been a lawyer on both sides (defense and prosecution), Marine (which he admitted was an intermediate sanction that a judge gave him an option of when he first started out as an adult), warden, and other kinds of executive personnel (and the Marines are a form of executors -- so there you go). He was also other kinds of personnel (e.g., a judge, I think) as well. So?

"Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks^[a] foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."

Knowledge is drek without wisdom, and education without application. Without applying knowledge instead of just regurgating what some macher maven wants one to read from a book, you're like a rabbit eating its own drek-- and rabbits do eat their own drek (which I heard as an argument against Intelligent Design, but which is actually an argument for Intelligent Design-- long explanation).

Lybia Is Not In Africa.... Nor Is The Middle East...

To say that Put (Lybia) is in Kush (Africa) is Afrocentric. To say that the Middle East is in Kush is also Afrocentric. On the other hand, the Middle East is not in Asia, either. Historically, it's really its own continent. It's not a subcontinent like India and its fellow subcontinental regions, either. And by the way, since India is in Asia (or it's considered to be, though India and its surronding areas could be their own continent as well); I can tell you that but for the common humanity shared by all, Iraqis are not similar to Indians, Iranians similar to Koreans, Jews (like myself) similar to Vietnamese people, etc..

Shem and Ham divided up and then subdivided (as did Yefet) into the various 'amim v'eretzim, especially after the incident of Migdal Bavel. Once Migdal Bavel fell, the various lashonim, 'amim,  v'eretzim came about. Later, Shem, Yefet, and Ham rejoined at the pinnacle known as the Middle East-- think Togarmah (including Chaldea), Put, and Aram-- of whom Rivkah Imenu was born, which is why Ya'akov was an Arami (since Yitzchak was the first Yehudi, born of the brit with Avraham).

Gilad Shalit Is Ransomed! Captive Israel Has Been Freed (In Part)...

Whatever idiot doesn't blog about Gilad Shalit today... well, he or she is an idiot. Meanwhile, all we need is Mashiach to come (again), and Yisra'el will be fully free, have complete chofesh. By the way, Gilad did not look well, sadly looking like a better-off Shoah victim or survivor on his or her best day-- were that possible and he or she so lucky as to look even a bit well.

I Hate Getting Ready For Showers...

Because of I have Cerebral Palsy, I take five minutes to get ready for showers. I can't just get ready, get in, and get out like most people. I have to have the help of my mom-- and how good does that do for my future, anyway? Say, independence? Marital prospects? Being able to make aliyah?

*crickets*

Yeah; I thought so-- in other words, I'm doomed. You see why suicide's still a temptation?

I'm Not An ABDL, But I Don't See Infantilism As Infantophilia...

e.g.:

@southbeauty1 There needs to be a DOJ sting on (if you will) ABDL cells. These ABDLs were heinously and unimaginably abused and exploited during childhood in one or another way (sometimes more than one), and the ABDL "mommies" and "daddies" are nothing more than abusers/exploiters/neglecters who themselves need to be brought to justice and/or may themselves need psychological and/or psychiatric help.

Nickidewbear 4 months ago

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@Nickidewbear Couldn't agree more! This is no different than pedophilia. In the law, it says it doesn't matter if the situation is real or simulated (as in creating a fake photo of a fake child edited to be in sexual acts) it's still child porn/molesting. These sickos are pretending to be children (babies) while sexually gratifying themselves. This falls within the definition of our child porn laws.

Luka2234 31 minutes ago

@Luka2234 I'm not sure that I agree that infantilism is infantophilia or pedophilia, but as I said: "the ABDL "mommies" and "daddies" are nothing more than abusers/exploiters/neglecters who themselves need to be brought to justice and/or may themselves need psychological and/or psychiatric help." And creating a photo of a child is much different than pretending to be one.

Infantilism is a serious problem; and while I can understand reasons for wanting to be infantile (since I was abused myself), I don't see infantilism as conducive to helping one's self with anything. As I said, however, I do not see infantilism as infanto- and pedo-philia.

I Want My Family To Understand...

I don't want especially the up-and-coming and to-be-up-and-coming generations to be like, for example, the following:

• Jack Czarnecki, an overall not-nice man and cold-blooded murderer.

• Mary Rusnak Gaydos, the direct Holocaust enabler-- and nobody has to wonder why the Rusznyaks (Rusnaks) in Tel Aviv and other places still won't talk to us.

• Janet Rozzi, who would defend such a woman as Mary Rusnak Gaydos. By the way, good riddance that Janet removed me as a friend-- I don't want to keep bad company like her; and no matter how much she and anyone else hates it, I had to bring up that Jack Feldman has Chron's and many of us have so much more (e.g., OCD, IBS, Alzheimer's, etc.) because we walked and/or are descended from those who walked away from our Jewish heritage and Meshicheinu Yeshua. That includes that we walked away from keeping kashrut for at least health reasons and from helping Vilmosz et. al. in their time of need.

• Dr. MaryAnn Gaydos and Joan Gaydos Czarnecki-- indirect Holocaust enablers. Being silent and trying to hide and/or change the story about what their mother did is inappropriate. Especially since she is dead now and already had to face her Maker for it, we need to face what she did and not repeat what she did. There'll be a day when we are all found out as Jews and persecuted, and who will help us since we refused to help the unashamedly-Jewish (even if not Messianic Jewish) Yehoshua Rusnak side of the family; especially because since they trusted us meshumadim to help them, and we became koferim in ayinim shel Yeshua and more of koferim in the eyes of them who we refused to help?

Geraldo Didn't Seem As Liberal As He's Been of Late....

How refreshing! He let come out that these "Occupy Wall Street"ers, for the most part if not entirely, are either disingenous Tea Partiers (which one Michiganian peer of mine showed himself to be on "Geraldo at Large" last night) or racist (e.g., Anti-Charles Payne and -Herman Cain), Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Republicanism people. He also let Sally Kohn and Matt Segal show, sadly, that the Jewish community in the United States still has a long way to go-- like Kohn (obviously a koheinah) and Segal (a sar shel bnei Levi), many Diasporan Jews in America don't get and want to get that one can even be a Jacob Javitts Republican and republican.

As Herman Cain talked about the "old plantation thinking", there's this old shtetl thinking that Jews must be liberal and Democrats-- e.g., look at the haredim who bilk entitlements like crazy. Obviously, by the way, even though much of my family were Jewish (and Jewish Catholic) Democrats (and still are), many (like the late Peter Chokola and his distant cousin Tony Czarnecki, Sr.) refused to let the government pamper them. As liberal as they were (or at least Tony's son Jack is... *shudders*; and Peter Chokola did help pass the "Container Disposal Bill", as I came to learn recently), they didn't let the government pamper them or anyone else.

And they're obviously like their Chernetski patriarchs-- since Peter's grandmother was a Chernetska-- I think, or how else would he be Great-Granddad's once-removed third cousin? In other words, they're very political; and they're part of where I got my sense of, as Marvin Olasky speaks of, "compassionate conservatism".

Geraldo learned and is relearning from those like Jacob Javitts, the Chokolas, and Marvin Olaskly-- and Charles Payne and Herman Cain. I should also add, by the way, that Geraldo is learning too that those who have the "plantation" and shtetl thinking are sadly taking seriously the Oprahesque and URJesque mindset to believe in one's self instead of G-d and to have someone else do one's social justice work for him or her.

Dan Wheldon Was a Somebody In This World, Which Is Why He May Be Nothing In the Next...

As for the Steve Jobses and Unix creators, who knows? It depends on what they believed-- they sure did change the world, though, instead of spending their days going 225 miles and an hour on what could've been track or cross-country-practice paths for K-12 and college kids.

The ones who'll be something in the next world, either way, are the American and other Allied military members who put their faith in G-d and Yeshua every day-- especially if (like, for example, Yeshua Himself did) they chose to lay down their lives for their friends when (as Toby Keith once sang) "dying [was] asking [them]" (and they "[bore] that cross with honor, 'cause freedom don't come free"). They'll be the third-world indigenous and other people-- always including children under the age of accountability-- who died at least hoping for better than this world-- even if the Gospel never directly came to them or reached their sight, hearing, or any other sense.

Besides, much of what he said wouldn't make me want to have known him in this lifetime or the next.

I Stand By What Truth I Say, And I Keep Seeking Truth: I'm Human, But I Try To Be Honest. For Example...

As sad as to say the following is, I have to say that the only thing standing between confirmation of truth and many more truths is that Dad and his parents either are still alive (and the sad part is, is that they may have to meet their Maker before anything will come out, which may be 10-20 more years) or are still remorselessly unrepentant (That they were at least feeling guilt even if stubborn and holding back apologies!).

I figured out that Pop-Pop is a murderer and despised his good, Jewish mother for revealing many of the family secrets. My aunt and others just knew that Pop-Pop is a creep. Never did they think of murder-malice theory; or if they did, they didn't say anything about it (as far as I know) until I spoke up and put the facts together.

Being unprosecuted and persecuting those who'd like to see you prosecuted doesn't change the facts. Read that clearly, Dad and Pop-Pop!

Facebook Needs a "Public; Except: [Whoever]", Not Just "Friends; Except" Custom Option

I get so sick of having to "remove" (hide) everything from Mom's and Michelle's view. (What babies! Actually, babies and little children are more mature.) For example, there was this picture on which I duly noted, "Jack and Joan Czarnecki have never paid attention to this... one bit." Michelle complained about what I said to Mom. Mom yelled at me, "Nick... get it off." So, I removed it from their view.

And here's a clip for them, from 0:12-0:18. 

The Anti Defamation League's Disgusting Polemic On Anti Semitism

In the following, from which I will post excerpts, Abraham Foxman and the rest of the ADL disgustingly and perhaps even disingenously label Messianic Jews (including Messianic Karaites), Non-Messianic Karaites and other Non-Messianic Jews, and others as Anti Semitic for criticizing Talmud Bavli and P'rushi Yahadut as a perversion of Tanakh and Yahadut.

The Anti Defamation League In Self-Hating-Jewish Polemics

• "Recently there has been a renewal of attacks on Judaism and Jews through
  recycling of old accusations and distortions about the Talmud. Anti-
  Talmud tracts were originally developed in the Middle Ages as Christian
  polemics against Judaism, but today they emanate from a variety of
  Christian, Moslem and secular sources. Sometimes such “studies” have
  blatantly anti-Semitic tones; sometimes they are more subtle. Yet all of
  them remain as false and pernicious today as they did in the Middle Ages.
  
  "Because of their unfortunate frequent reappearance, there is a need to
  
  
  formally rebut these accusations and canards. The Anti-Defamation
  
  
  League developed the following essay that explains in an honest and
  
  
  scholarly way the Talmudic teachings as understood by Jewish religious
  
  authorities."

Many of these "anti-Semitic sources" are Messianic Jews, Non-Messianic Karaites, and other Jews who are well versed in, have or had consistently studied, and left P'rushi Yahadut because of Talmud Bavli.

• "Are the polemicists anti-Semites? This is a charged term that should not be used lightly,
  but the answer, by and large, is yes. Now and then a polemicist of this type may himself
  have been born Jewish, but rfrom contemporary Jews, and their dismissal of any
  voices opposing their own, suggests that their goal in reading ancient rabbinic literature is
  to produce the Frankenstein version of Judaism that they invariably claim to have
  uncovered."

An ad hominem right in the beginning, it charges that G-d is also an Anti Semite. Tanakh clearly warns not to add or take from it.

• "In fact many anti-Talmud polemicists have never studied the Talmud at all."

Deliberate misstatement of fact. As aforementioned, "Many of these "anti-Semitic sources" are Messianic Jews, Non-Messianic Karaites, and other Jews who are well versed in, have or had consistently studied, and left P'rushi Yahadut because of Talmud Bavli." For example, Nehemia Gordon was born and raised the son of a recently-deceased "rabbi".

• "The visceral hatred that Jews are alleged to bear for non-Jews is
  proven, they claim, by a variety of statements in the Talmud and by Jewish law itself,
  which purportedly encourages Jews to exploit their non-Jewish neighbors and engage in
  criminal activities against them."

One need look no further than a devout follower of Talmud Bavli-- Meir Kahane. Also, Yaron Yardan-- one of the Non-Messianic Jews who was in a yeshiva for years-- cites, among other parshot b'P'rushi halakhah (Menakhot 73b):

The peace-offerings of gentiles are to be treated as burnt-offerings.

1 This I can prove either by

simple reasoning or by a verse from Scripture. Either by simple reasoning: because a gentile in his

heart [devotes the offering entirely] to Heaven.

2 Or by a verse from Scripture: Which they will offer

unto the Lord for a burnt-offering:

3 whatever they4 offer shall be a burnt-offering.

R. Hama b. Guria raised an objection: If a gentile made a freewill-offering of peace-offerings and

he gave them to an Israelite,

5 the Israelite may eat them;6 if he gave them to a priest, the priest may

eat them.

6 — Raba answered, It means this: if [he gave them to an Israelite] that the Israelite shall

receive atonement thereby,
7 the Israelite may eat them;

if [he gave them to a priest] that the priest

shall receive atonement thereby, the priest may eat them.

So goyim can't recieve kippur for their own korbanot. By the way, the Soncino or Artscroll translation does not matter in this case-- the original content and context, to which the Soncino is closer, is the same.

• "One of the more horrifying charges leveled at Judaism is that it condones the sexual
  molestation of young girls. This charge was made in 1892 by the Russian Catholic cleric
  Reverend I.B. Pranaitis in his Latin book,
  Christianus in Talmude Iudaeorum. Despite
  Pranaitis’ humiliation at the Beilis blood libel trial in 1913, where as an “expert” witness
  for the prosecution he demonstrated during cross-examination that he could not answer
  even simple questions about the Talmud, his book was translated into English in 1939,
  and the charge has been making the rounds in anti-Semitic circles ever since."

Notorious talmidim of Talmud Bavli (e.g., Yisroel Shapiro) had and have molested countless young women and even young man. Examples one and two (Be warned-- these are graphic, and maybe not even the most graphic. There are ones which I won't post here. And is Abraham Foxman a pedophile?):

1. "Our Rabbis taught: It is related of Justinia¹⁷ the daughter of 'Aseverus son of Antonius that she once appeared before Rabbi 'Master', she said to him, 'at what age may a woman marry?'. 'At the age of three years and one day', he told her. 'And at what age is she capable of conception?' 'At the age of twelve years and one day', he replied. 'I', she said to him, 'married at the age of six and bore a child at the age of seven; alas for the three years that I have lost at my father's house'. But can a woman conceive at the age of six years? Did not R. Bibi recite in the presence of R. Nahman: Three classes of woman may use an absorbent¹⁸ in their marital intercourse:¹⁹ A minor, and an expectant and a nursing mother. The minor,²⁰ because otherwise she might become pregnant and die. An expectant mother,²⁰ because otherwise she might cause her foetus to degenerate into a sandal.²¹ A nursing mother,²⁰ because otherwise she might have to wean her child prematurely,²² and this would result in his death. And what is the age of such a 'minor'?²³ From the age of eleven years and one day to the age of twelve years and one day. One who is under²⁴ or over this age²⁵ must carry on her marital intercourse in a normal manner; so R. Meir." (Niddah 45a)
2. "But is she,¹ however, capable of [normal] conception?² Did not R. Bibi recite in the presence of R. Nahman:³ Three [categories of] women may use an absorbent⁴ in their marital intercourse:⁵ a minor, and an expectant and nursing mother. The minor,⁶ because otherwise she might become pregnant and die. An expectant mother,⁶ because otherwise she might cause her foetus to degenerate into a sandal.⁷ A nursing mother,⁶ because otherwise she might have to wean her child [prematurely]⁸ and this would result in his death.⁹ And what is [the age of such] a minor?¹⁰ From the age of eleven years and one day to the age of twelve years and one day. One who is under,¹¹ or over this age¹² must carry on her marital intercourse in a normal manner; so R. Meir. But the Sages said: The one as well as the other carries on her marital intercourse in a normal manner, and mercy¹³ will be vouchsafed from Heaven, for it is said in the Scriptures, The Lord preserveth the simple.¹⁴ And should you reply that this is a case where she conceived when she was a na'arah and gave birth to a child when she was still a na'arah [it could be objected:] Does one give birth to a child within six months [after conception]? Did not Samuel, in fact, state: The period between the age of na'aruth¹⁵ and that of bagruth¹⁶ is only six months? And should you suggest [that he meant to say] that there were no less but more [than six months] surely [it could be retorted] he used the expression, only'!¹⁷ It must be this, then, that he¹⁸ asked: Is the state of adolescence¹⁹ attainable in the grave²⁰ and her father consequently forfeits²¹ [his right],²² or is perhaps the state of adolescence not attainable in the grave²³ and the father, therefore, does not forfeit²⁴ [his right]? " (Ketubot 39a)

I could go on, but you get the point by now.

The Antimissionary Canards Are As Stale Challah... Try Some, So to Speak, Matazh

For example:

1. Tehillim 112:1-4
2. D'varim 32:7-10. Who did not acknowledge his ima, akhim v'achot, u' ava? And who was the "ava" left unacknowledged?
3. D'varim 31:16-21, 26-29 After whose met did Yisra'el become corrput, and Beit Hakodesh fall? Understand that d'varim-Moshe were prophecies as well.

My Mom Really Doesn't Understand the Talmud or Crypto Jews...

She thinks that my Crypto-Jewish, chauvinist granddad is (at minimum) possibly "a latent homosexual". She has no idea: I had to explain to her, and I also called my aunt (who has no idea that my mom thinks that) to explain that, he probably has a copy of Talmud Bavli around somewhere-- where it is, I probably wouldn't be able to guess, as I never even saw a hint of the Talmud when I would go to Pop-Pop's and Grandma's house. Remember that I didn't know that we are Jewish back then, anyway.

Meanwhile, here's an analysis of an example of P'rushi chauvinism. For more examples of chauvinism in the Talmud, read it yourself or get started with examples from Da'at Emet, whose founder left P'rushi Yahadut a long time ago.

In Reform Judaism, "Aliyah" Is A Lot More About Parashot Than Following Yirimiyahu 8:1-13

Based on search results for "making aliyah" and "aliyah", I gather that Reform Judaism seems less serious about the mitzvah to make aliyah than to do the traditional "aliyah" each week in a beit din. Since the URJ doesn't take the inerrancy of Tanakh seriously, though, the URJ sadly doesn't take the concept of aliyah seriously.

I Agree With the Following Re Eric Yoffe's Op Ed

Eric Yoffe's disingenous & hypocritical Op Ed was well responded to:

"Michael Doyle said:

I couldn't be more embarrassed to be a Reform Jew right now. This op-ed manages to insult all parties and invite Israel to feel free to continue to act unilaterally. If Rabbi Yoffie was trying to alienate non-AIPAC supporting Reform Jews, this piece does a really good job of it.

I have a better question for Rabbi Yoffie--where is the evidence that Israel wants peace? In the outrageously still-growing settlements? In the Netanyahu government's repeated pandering to the virulently xenophobic (including to other Jews!) ultra-Orthodox community? In the inability of low-wage Arab workers to reach jobs on the other side of security walls at any moment Israel deems they shouldn't be allowed to cross?

If this piece were a little less angry and a little less pandering, there might have been a little more substance to it. And grace and compassion, for that matter."

Michael Doyle hit it. For example:

 
• "To the leaders of the Palestinian Authority: Stop deluding yourselves! You will not be taken seriously as proponents of a two-state solution if you fail to support the underlying principles that make such a solution possible. A two-state solution means that there is no "right of return" to Israel, and that once a treaty is signed, the conflict is over. Really over. If you cannot say this now, and if you talk about Palestine being occupied since 1948, you are not serious about two states--or about peace."

Many Pleshetim are Pro Israel and learned from what happened to Goly'at.

• "To the leaders of the Israeli left: Stop deluding yourselves! You say that the Palestinians want peace, and Israelis would like to believe that, but where, for heaven's sake, is the evidence? Hints, and feints, and winks are not enough. Abbas at the UN should have said: "I welcome the Jewish state as my neighbor, and I welcome the Jews home;" but he had his chance, and he blew it. Please, no more making excuses for him."

Reverend Yoffe stereotypes Pleshetim again. And he gets angry at many of the haredim? Excuse me, but he is sounding haredi.

• "To the leaders of the settlement movement: Stop deluding yourselves! No one believes you when you claim that the thugs who burn mosques, uproot olive trees on Arab land, spout anti-Muslim slogans, and deface army bases exist only on the margins of your community. This violence has been going on for years, feeding on extremist views of Jewish law put forward by too many of your rabbinic leaders. And everyone knows that you could do far more about this hooliganism than you are now doing if you really wanted to."

Yoffe stereotypes Pleshetim again and fellow Jews this time as well. Many Pleshetim want Pleshet shel Goly'at b'Yehudah back and recognize that Noah David Simon and David Appletree, Yad L'Achim, and the Jewish Defense League don't represent all Jews who'd like the West Bank and kol Yerushalayim back.

Besides looking at a historical map for once and taking the inerrancy of Tanakh seriously, Reverend Yoffe and most of the URJ (who couldn't love and agree with Reverend Yoffe any more) need to get a clue.

Who Was Great-Granddad Czarnecki Really? Besides a Jew, We Won't Know Now...

"843-86/11
Szanowny Panie, informujemy, ze Archiuwm w Suwałkach nie posiada akt okregu mojzeszowego w Lipsku. Akta metrykalne z powiatu Augustow ulegly zniszczeniu w czasie II wojny swiatowej.
Zoja Luksza"


"843-86/11

Dear Sir, We inform you the Archive in Suwalki the county does not have files of Jewish people in Lipsk. Records of birth certificates from the county Augustow were destroyed during World War II.
Zoya Luksza"

 

It means that whoever "Antoni Jan Julianowicz" Chernetski and his parents, "Julian Jan 'Feliks'" and "Aleksjondria Alicja" nee Andrulewicza Chernetski, were is gone from human knowledge. And "Antoni" and "Katarzyna" Chernetski, Danilowicza, Andrulewicz, and Morgiewicza ("Margiewicza")? Absolutely gone. 

While their being meshumadim and koferim (since they were Crypto-Jewish Roman Catholics) saved their lives and enabled them to live as Anusim in Sugar Notch, they destroyed much of their mishpacha for the knowledge of which they deliberately left them in lack. And while even many of their children became Meshichim (Alexandria Alice, Stanley-- which grandchildren Mark and Renee can confirm, since Mark even prayed with his "Pop-Pop"--, Edward, Bernie, and Cecelia. And as for Regina, I can't confirm since she died when she was 16; and Great-Granddad and his brothers John and Jospeh did not), they left both their Meshichim v'Lo Meshichim Zerim without a full and solid knowledge of their history and heritage vin Yisra'el v'b'Yeshua.

And the Problem With Being Spiritual Is? Tracey R. Rich Is A Classical P'rushit Chauvinist...

"Women are discouraged from pursuing higher education or religious pursuits, but this seems to be primarily because women who engage in such pursuits might neglect their primary duties as wives and mothers. The rabbis are not concerned that women are not spiritual enough; rather, they are concerned that women might become too spiritually devoted....

"There is no question that in traditional Judaism, the primary role of a woman is as wife and mother, keeper of the household. However, Judaism has great respect for the importance of that role and the spiritual influence that the woman has over her family. The Talmud says that when a pious man marries a wicked woman, the man becomes wicked, but when a wicked man marries a pious woman, the man becomes pious. The child of a Jewish woman and a gentile man is Jewish because of the mother's spiritual influence; the child of a Jewish man and a gentile woman is not. See Who Is a Jew? Women are exempted from all positive mitzvot ("thou shalts" as opposed to "thou shalt nots") that are time-related (that is, mitzvot that must be performed at a specific time of the day or year), because the woman's duties as wife and mother are so important that they cannot be postponed to fulfill a mitzvah. After all, a woman cannot be expected to just drop a crying baby when the time comes to perform a mitzvah. She cannot leave dinner unattended on the stove while she davens ma'ariv (evening prayer services).

"It is this exemption from certain mitzvot that has led to the greatest misunderstanding of the role of women in Judaism. First, many people make the mistake of thinking that this exemption is a prohibition. On the contrary, although women are not required to perform time-based positive mitzvot, they are generally permitted to observe such mitzvot if they choose (though some are frustrated with women who insist on performing visible, prestigious optional mitzvot while they ignore mundane mandatory ones). Second, because this exemption diminishes the role of women in the synagogue, many people perceive that women have no role in Jewish religious life. This misconception derives from the mistaken assumption that Jewish religious life revolves around the synagogue. It does not; it revolves around the home, where the woman's role is every bit as important as the man's.

1. Let's (according to Tracy R. Rich) blame the women for the man. "[W]hen a pious man marries a wicked woman, the man becomes wicked, but when a wicked man marries a pious woman, the man becomes pious." Tracey R. Rich, raised Reform, has become Orthodox in Yahadut shel HaP'rushim. So she believes that a man isn't personally responsible for how he is ultimately affected.
2. Women can apparently be too spiritual. "Women are discouraged from pursuing higher education or religious pursuits, but this seems to be primarily because women who engage in such pursuits might neglect their primary duties as wives and mothers. The rabbis are not concerned that women are not spiritual enough; rather, they are concerned that women might become too spiritually devoted." A truly-spiritual woman would perform the duties of her calling or vocation with a sound spiritual foundation in mind, for anything and everything that she does should glorify G-d. After all, D'vorah was a shofetah.
3. "There is no question that in traditional Judaism, the primary role of a woman is as wife and mother, keeper of the household." Do we need to go over D'vorah again?
4. " However, Judaism has great respect for the importance of that role and the spiritual influence that the woman has over her family." This statement contradicts that "women might become too spiritually devoted." If the woman is supposed to be such an influence, how can she be too spiritual? Can one be too truly-- not legalistically, not ritually, but spiritually-- pious?

What If Gilad Shalit Does Become Messianic?

What will the Antimissionaries do if Gilad Shalit has become firmly, genuinely, unequivocally, & not-just-while-a-POW Messianic? While my friend Yohanahn may be right that Gilad's being a Jewish Christian and testimony is a "beautiful thought", it's scary as well. Persecution will uptick. e.g., "Oh; those were MISSIONARY Palestinians. 'Death to Arabs!' Death to Messianics! Let's get them!"

Remember how Stephen was murdered? Sha'ul who became "Paul" murdered at first, then was murdered by Nero? Christian (unless I find out otherwise, including Jewish Christian) graves in Yaffa (Jaffa) were desacrated with "Death to Arabs"?

Will the Antimissionaries force Gilad Shalit into rehab to try to rid him of his "stress-induced" or "Stockholm Syndrome" faith? Will they send him back into Hamas custody? Will they even dishonorably discharge him from the IDF and even murder him for supposed treason? Remember, the Netanyahu-Lieberman government supports Yad L'Achim and similar groups such as the Jewish Defense League.

Alex Jones: Another Traitorous Self-Despising Jew? Here We Go Again...

   ¹¹ For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
¹² “ Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’
Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy,
Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.
¹³ The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow;
Let Him be your fear,
And let Him be your dread.
¹⁴ He will be as a sanctuary,
But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense
To both the houses of Israel,
As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
¹⁵ And many among them shall stumble;
They shall fall and be broken,
Be snared and taken.”

(From Yesha'yahu 8, NKJV)

And for the able Jew who can but refuses to make aliyah.

Needless to say, if the rumors about Alex Jones being Jewish are true, he is in big trouble.

Great-Grandma Czarnecki Would've Been 99 in 2012...

And while she maybe died at a good time to go to Heaven, anyway (Look at where this country's gone since 2007 up to 2008!); she was still murdered. That she was going to die, anyway, doesn't change that. Pop-Pop fully intended to get rid of her re the Social Security Fraud. And I said Southeast (when I should've said East South or just E South) Street, but my intent was the same: to give Great-Grandma the birthday or (I suppose) the yahrzeit or yizkor present for which she has long awaited. As I said, "I firmly believe that Mary M. Trudnak Czarnecki would not have gone to the hospital and gotten her leg amputated without knowing that someone was going to fight for her and to pursue justice against Jack Czarnecki someday."

I admit that I'm human and afraid of what happens if Mom and Aunt Mary do find out; but at the same time, even five years or five-plus years later-- be it July 28, 1913 (for which the P'rushi date was Tamuz 23, 5673) or February 12, 2007 (for which the P'rushi date was Shevat 24, 5767), or even later depending on how long the case takes-- I'm going to follow the mitzvah "Tzedek, tzedek tirdof". Besides, if people can look down from Gan 'Eden, Great-Grandma Czarnecki is proud to know that her Jewish granddaughter is following the Jewish command of the Jewish Messiah whose commands she tried her best to follow for all of her 93 years b'ha'olam haza.

More Jews Are Asking For No Religion and Gideon Levy Doesn't Find Jews To Be Chosen...

Well, I actually wrote a few blog entries (e.g., this and this) on this recently. No wonder many fellow Jews are dropping untrue religion, though they won't accept the "true religion [which] comes from our Father"; and I'm not the only one to make the points made in my blog. See the comments on Gideon Levy's article.

What Made Me Respond Was the Presumption and Haugtiness

Nicole Czarnecki I understand the military veterans and the disabled. I do not understand those who won't take the $7-an-hour jobs and start somewhere like many of my relatives did.

[Someone on the forum which I was on] The problem is that people can't live on those kind of wages. Imagine if suddenly you only had 1/4 or 1/3 of your previous earnings to cover home, health ins., food,education. You might work that $7l job but to what end? You might work 2 or 3 of those jobs... and people do---that's why they're called the working poor.

Nicole Czarnecki I'd be blessed to even be able to do that; and my great-granddad did that with six people to provide for in his household, and my granddad for 11 people.

 

Great-Granddad Tony Czarnecki inherited three houses from his dad, Julian, since he was the oldest son and the only one old enough to do so at the time. He was 18 on October 24, 1922; almost two weeks to the month anniversary of Great-Great-Granddad Julian's death. Great-Great-Granddad earned $5,000 a year by having himself and Great-Granddad be the breadwinners; and when he died, the income for 10 survivors (since three children had died) was down to near $2,000 (at least by 1930, when Great-Granddad was in a Wood River, Illinois mental hospital; far from Sugar Notch, and thus unable to help the then-nine survivors-- Great-Grandaunt Regina died on June 23, 1925.).

 

Great-Granddad then lived in 203 Freed Street with his wife (Mary M. Trudnak Czarnecki), sons Anthony, Jr. (1934-1934), John "Jack" (b. May 25, 1936), Francis "Red" (June 21, 1940 - July 9, 1985), James (later James, Sr. and Jim; b. November 24, 1942), and Anthony, Jr. the Younger (b. January 19, 1946; and still at home and in college when his dad committed suicide on December 2, 1964). He coal mined in Sugar Notch, then worked as a lawnmower in Watervilet, New York (and Great-Grandma's name is listed on the apartment, because he was probably too poor and working hard when he lost his job in the Sugar Notch coal mines).

 

Other relatives, including Mom's dad (who I already covered), were also the working poor. So, as I said, "I understand the military veterans and the disabled. I do not understand those who won't take the $7-an-hour jobs and start somewhere like many of my relatives did." Quit occupying Wall Street and work like avoti did.

Toby Keith Sure Isn't "Country As Conbread" or "Good As He Once Was" Anymore...

I wonder how the '90s- Early '00s Toby would feel about the Late '00s-Present Toby Keith, by the way. Would he like him? Or would he just be the closeted him-- that is, the "old" Toby Keith hiding the "new", disingenous Toby Keith. I remember even watching on CMT that Toby explicity promised G-d that if he didn't get ito the music business by the time that he was 30, he would quit trying. Is what Toby has become a result of breaking that promise at 32 years of age?

The "new" Toby Keith is even... more drunk than ever? He also was very classess to his wife, Tricia, recently:

"Although Keith's daughter immediately loved the idea of using the insult as the album's title, Keith's wife wasn't so keen. He adds, "My wife freaked out. She was mad at the girl because she is a well-known person in our community. I view that kind of stuff as funny. I take that stuff in stride and my daughter is the same way. My wife is a little more particular. She said, 'You're not going to (name the album that).' She thought I was joking. And then I brought one home and laid it on the countertop!""

What a jerk to Tricia! And for example:

""She said [her daughter] should quit running with [my daughter]," said Keith, "because, she said, 'They're nothing but white trash with money, anyway.' My wife is very classy, and when she heard this she was mad -- I mean MAD. She said, 'I'll deal with the mother.' "

When they told Keith about the insult, however, he didn't show the outrage they expected.

"I started laughing," he says. "I said, 'Why are you offended? That's all I've ever been. If you think I'm white trash with money, well, I'm proud of it and I'll take it all the way to the bank. To prove it, that sounds like a great album title to me.' ""

Toby Keith's a Class-A jerk! On one hand, he praises Tricia for being classy; then on the other hand, he rubs Tricia's class right in her face. Also:

"Still, he says, his wife has to nag him to get a haircut, he drives a pickup truck and hangs proudly to his self-described "white trash" origins. A part of that, it seems, is his overflowing confidence."

Really, Toby; Tricia cares about you, and you're rich enough to get a haircut. Even I'm growing my hair long, but I keep my split ends trimmed. Besides, what's this where you're with Tricia (unless she's a body double or my eye's playing tricks) versus this? Not a real good example for Stelen, is it? The former is a much-better example-- and more respectful to his mother.