In Case You're Wondering About Jewish Surnames

Grant that Tracy R. Rich is not right about all this, by the way. I have thoroughly researched this beyond JewFAQ.org, which I should note also has a Haredi P'rushi bias. Meanwhile, for example:

A lot of the surnames that sound Jewish to Americans are simply German names such as Klein, Gross or Grossman, Weiss or Weisman, Rosen, Schwartz or Schwartzman, Segal, Siegal or Sagal, and anything that contains berg, stein, man, thal or bluth. German surnames are very common among American Jews, and many people seem to have inferred the converse: if most Jews have German surnames, then most people with German surnames must be Jews. The reasoning is appealing on a gut-level but logically flawed. Consider this absurd but logically identical argument: most Jews have ten fingers, therefore most people with ten fingers must be Jews. 

"Siegal" and other variants may actually be like "Katz"- variants or acronyms of kohein, kohen, etc. Also, "Levy" and other variants are, with perhaps a 0.01% exception, always a variant of Levi (As I said, JewFAQ.org has a Haredi P'rushi bias, and Tracy R. Rich has no problem attempting to delegitimize  Patrilineal and Messianic Jews.).



As for the following:

Russian and Polish surnames are also often assumed to be Jewish surnames, for example names ending in -vitz, -witz, or -sky. It is commonly believed that "-sky" is a Jewish surname while "-ski" is not. This spelling difference, however, seems do have more to do with the source of the surname: Russia or Poland. The correct spelling of this common surname suffix in Polish is "-ski", and Poles usually kept that spelling after immigration to America. In Russia, this suffix is spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet, , and may have been transliterated into English as either -ski or -sky. However, a Jewish friend of mine who comes from Moscow tells me that in Russia, names ending in were usually Jewish. 

I can tell you that records from sources such as Ancestry.com and JewishGen.org show that Non (Non-цкий) could be and were Jewish as well. She also missed "cki", "czki", etc.

There are other disclaimers about Tracy R. Rich and JewFAQ, but the linked-to JewFAQ page is like Wikipedia: a good start and for at least some of the basics.  

What Happens When Your Dominant Hand Is Out of Comission

I normally type with my pointer finger on my left hand, by the way. Click on the blog entry's title to see why I did a YouTube Vlog entry instead.

Update at 1:28 AM: See the photo above. P.S. It's on my Facebook page (and I'm typing with my pinky).

A Reminder To Jewish Supremacists And Anti Missionaries: We're No Better Than the Goyim, and Many of Whom Blaspheme HaShem Because of You

4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 Know therefore that it is not for thy righteousness that the LORD thy God giveth thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 7 Remember, forget thou not, how thou didst make the LORD thy God wroth in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst go forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye made the LORD wroth, and the LORD was angered with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 10 And the LORD delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have dealt corruptly; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.' 13 Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; 14 let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God; ye had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him. 19 For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. 20 Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.--

Also

So now, what should I do here," asks ADONAI, "since my people were carried off for nothing? Their oppressors are howling," says ADONAI, "and my name is always being insulted, daily.


"Therefore tell the house of Isra'el that Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Isra'el, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you went.

Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22 (Complete Jewish Bible)

Even Marylin Manson Acknowledges The Following

Of course, Marylin Manson (as have most other Non Believers like Mr. Manson) acknowledged the following in the most vile way (and one which I still remember seeing on middle-school classmate Brad Heath's T Shirt):

The time is close; it is quite clear/The Antichrist is almost here

By the way, Brad Heath later got arrested for theft of a police car- all while we were still in middle school. But back to the point: so even vilely-unbeliving Marylin Manson (and perhaps Brad Heath) acknowledge the coming Seven Years known as the Tribulation. Apparently, that "time" is indeed "quite close", and it will not be a pretty one:

Israeli sources on Monday confirmed that the US proposed that Israel lease parts of the Jordan Valley from the Palestinians for an additional seven years, Army Radio reported.

According to the Monday report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to the idea, but demanded that the arrangement be for a longer period of time than the original offer. "Seven years is not enough - an arrangement like this needs to last for dozens of years," Netanyahu said in closed talks, according to Army Radio.

YouTube user TaoistWarrior sent me the article, by the way; and informed me that the Seven Years begin when Israel gives to Palestine more than Palistinia (Philista) in Judah. I misinterpreted when I thought that a peace with the Arabs meant signing a simple treaty after 10 days of tribulation in Mitzrayim (cf. Deuteronomy 28:68, Revelation 2:8-11). But who knows? Maybe that that's what will lead up to the treay- if China wants to make the USA pay, maybe they'll send one of Israel's most vile haters human collateral for the US- American (and perhaps other, including any remaining Chinese) Jews (including Obama, whose late mother is Jewish- as I learned from a fellow Jew and Googled when I thought that she might be kidding or perhaps misread something).

Egypt has already banned marriages to Jews and has persecuted Christians. They may surely want to re-enslave who (or to them, what) will now be China's collateral holding on behalf of the USA. Meanwhile, we will either be sold or try to sell ourselves but Egypt won't buy us- even for or from China, or for or from the USA. After 10 days, somebody will get frustrated- and some of us may even die (Surprise! Another pogrom *rolls eyes*.).

Meanwhile, am I the only one who thinks that what I call Parshah 'Elah Tovah and Parshiot Beshlachah v'Yitro have been prophetic of Messiah (Yeshua, Jesus) coming soon? Also, the head video on the channel of taoistwarrior (who is, despite his screenname, a Messianic Jew) includes Revelation 4:8: "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, Adonai Tzevaot Yahveh"  (The translation comes from Messianic.com and Hebrew4Christian.com.).

If Jews Don't Believe In Jesus; Does Jesus Not Believe In Himself? And Is Christianity Not At Least a Sect of Judaism?

As I've noted several times, the hackneyed "Jews don't believe in Jesus" line is getting older than it already is. It's as hackneyed or even more hackneyed than "Republicans are White, senior-citizen, Protestant Supremacists and chauvinists", and "Blacks and Hispanics are Democrats, and want nothing to do with 'Whitey' or 'el gringo'."

By the way, I'm surprised that the "gringo" line didn't get more flap on The O'Reilly Factor. I myself am happy that Jared Loughner was White (only because State Senator Russel Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) both have egg on their WASP-Supremacist faces); but I am of course not happy that Rep. Giffords was shot (though if I were her, I'd take being persecuted by Jared Loughner as an honor), and I'm not happy that Daisy Hernandez referred to Whites as gringos.

Newsflash for Señorita Hernandez, by the way: los hispanos originales- the Spaniards and Portuguese- were considered "blanco". Latina America became latina only because of los iberianos. So, blanketing every White as a "gringo" is beschmirching muchas hispanas, none of whom (as far as we know) are at fault for what an Irish- or German-American Supremacist did (I am not sure of the origins of "Loughner" at this time, but I can tell you that you won't blanket in this española y judia in with that Anti-Hispanic, Anti-Semitic Loughner.).

Anyway, the hackneyed "Jews don't believe in Jesus" line is getting older than it already is. Even Jewish Globe recognizes that:

When the phrases Jewish Christians, Hebrew Christians and Christian Jews are used in a modern sense, they refer to people who have a Jewish heritage, culture or ancestry. However, such people follow Christian tenets and philosophy, rather than Judaism. The terms Jewish Christians and Christian Jews are also applied to those who have formally converted to the Christian faith, and to those who do not practice the Hebrew faith, due to the circumstances of their upbringing, for example. The appellation Christian Jews can be used for those who are Jewish, but have been absorbed into the Christian majority. Although Christian Jews and Messianic Jews both represent a blend of Judaism and Christianity, Christian Jews are quite different from Messianic Jews, who are definitely Jewish, and only differ from other Jews in that they believe that Jesus was the true Messiah.

Although Jewish Globe may not get that "Jewish Christian" and "Messianic Jewish" are synonmous, "Christian Jew" is not the best term to use (long story short, "Christian Jew" is to a Jewish Christian like "Catholic Pole" to a Polish Catholic), and Messianic Jews do not have to denominationally Messianic (and I myself am a Patrilineal Jew who is a PCA Presbyterian and was baptized Roman Catholic and raised Episcopalian); Jewish Globe at least recognizes the crux of the matter:

At least some Jews believe in Jesus; Jesus Believed In Himself, and Christianity is at least a sect of Judaism (if not considered as Fulfilled, Complete, or True Judaism).

Dormant Blog

I leave this blog dormant and usually refer people to my AOL Red blog unless I have something important to post on both blogs.

The Nicole Factor At Red Blogs

I post more on my AOL Red blog, because it's the main site for The Nicole Factor. At AOL Red, even though I've been my own return visitor twice (due to technical problems or just not being signed in), I've attracted 297 return visitors (295, without me); and I've attracted many unique visitors. Therefore, for the whole of The Nicole Factor, go to my AOL Red blog, which is linked to by this entry's title.