The Droves of Academe,
New York Obeserver, January 2, 2003
"Two days earlier, nearly 11,000 English literature and modern-language professors had descended on midtown Manhattan for the start of the Modern Language Association’s annual conference, the place where intellectual superstars like Stanley Fish, Elaine Scarry and Kwame Anthony Appiah share hotel space with hundreds of desperate Ph.D.’s interviewing for a meager handful of jobs. The jittery orgy of power, insecurity and angst is the other academy’s answer to the Cannes Film Festival, except that as these strivers fan across the city between standing-room-only panels, instead of Anita Ekberg emerging from a fountain, they strain to catch a glimpse of aging Harvard nymph Marjorie Garber emerging from Barneys. The bacchanal of the bespectacled was back in New York for the first time in a decade, thrilling all those Ph.D.’s who had really planned to find jobs near the city, until the job market crashed and that tenure-track spot at Ball State started looking pretty appealing. But this year, as the stratified masses of academic hot shots and wannabes made their reservations at Esca (or Pasta La Vista) and scored tickets to La Bohème (or The Lord of the Rings), even an alcohol-soaked weekend in New York did nothing to calm the anxiety. It was palpable among more than just the job-seekers. Tension over the future of the profession could be felt all the way to the top of the pecking order, in the person of dashing M.L.A. president, Harvard professor and well-known Shakespearean Stephen Greenblatt, who in May sent 'A Call to Action' to every M.L.A. member, asking them all to begin to face a growing crisis in their industry: The academic presses that publish their esoteric work are shrinking, even as the publish-or-perish system of academic evaluation and promotion continues unabated, forcing lit professors to do some painful reckoning ... It’s a bleak landscape for academic job-seekers in any field, but this year, a flyer in the conference press room trumpeted "the sharpest decline in Language and Literature jobs" since the 1992 recession. The total number of English-language jobs fell from last year’s 983 to 792. Only half of these are tenure-track. These jobs are all that are available for the 977 people who received English doctorates in 2000-2001, not to mention the hundreds of frustrated job-seekers from previous years, on top of those with so-so jobs who are looking to trade up. ... In 1997, Mr. Greenblatt moved east with his second wife, Ramie Targoff, whom imaginative gossips claim is an heiress and a former Chanel model. Ms. Targoff teaches in the English department at Brandeis University ... Mr. Greenblatt has also co-edited The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare ... Retired Princeton historian and famous leftie Natalie Zemon Davis, whom one conventioneer called 'the haute couture Communist,' was schmoozing in an adjoining room with Clifford Geertz. This was not her first M.L.A., she said, adding that she was mostly there because of her close personal and professional connections with Mr. Greenblatt. ... Descending from the party in the elevator, the University of Texas’ well-regarded Mark Twain specialist Shelley Fisher Fishkin was practically beside herself about the publishing question."

Man Arrested After Stealing German Plane,
iwon, Jan 5, 2002
"A man stole a small aircraft at gunpoint Sunday and flew it over downtown Frankfurt, circling skyscrapers and threatening to crash into the European Central Bank. He landed safely after about two hours and was arrested. The man, apparently a German, told a television station he wanted to call attention to Judith Resnik, a U.S. astronaut killed in the 1986 post-launch explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Military jets chased the stolen, two-seat motorized glider as the man began circling slowly above Frankfurt's banking district. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the main railway station and dozens more from several skyscrapers, which were mostly empty on a Sunday afternoon at the end of the Christmas season. Authorities refused to identify the man, who was being questioned at the airport. But news channel n-tv named him as Franz-Stephan Strambach. 'I want to make my great idol Judith Resnik famous with this,' he said in a call from the plane to the channel. 'She deserves more attention, she was the first Jewish astronaut, and maybe that's why she isn't really considered.' Police said the man had identified the Central Bank headquarters as a possible target ... Though the man told n-tv he didn't want to harm anyone, he threatened to commit suicide once his fuel ran out. He landed at 5:11 p.m. at Frankfurt's international airport, where flights were halted during the drama ... Strambach's name appears as the webmaster of an Internet site devoted to Resnik, with links documenting her career, death and efforts to remember her, including the position in the night sky of an asteroid carrying her name."


Questions abound after wild ride for love of dead Jewish astronaut,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 8, 2002
"Some Germans may be obsessed with Jews, but few demonstrate their fixations the way Franz Stephan Strambach did. On Sunday, Strambach, a psychology student now under lock and key at the Hadamar psychiatric hospital, stole a small plane from an airport near Frankfurt and took it on a wild ride through the skies of the city, threatening to crash into the European Central Bank tower. He finally landed without incident. Strambach, 31, said he wanted to call attention to his hero, the Jewish astronaut Judith Resnik. 'I want to make my big idol Judith Resnik famous,' Strambach told German TV journalist Leo Busch, who spoke to the amateur pilot while he was still airborne. Resnik, who died in the explosion of the Challenger shuttle 17 years ago, 'deserves more attention,' Strambach said. 'She was the first Jewish astronaut. Perhaps that’s why she never got proper attention' ... There is no indication that Strambach is Jewish ... Journalist Henryk Broder, an observer of relations between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, told JTA he did not think the case was 'an example of the usual German sickness vis-a-vis the Jews' — a philo-Semitism that sometimes manifests itself in a fascination with Jewish life and culture. Rather, he said, this is 'an individual problem.' But reporting of the incident reflected another problem: a lingering discomfort in Germany about Jewish issues. While live feeds carried Strambach’s comments about Resnik’s Jewishness, it was cut out of later news broadcasts. There also was no public reaction from Jewish leaders ... . 'Although the pilot made it clear on the telephone that he wanted the world to remember Judith Resnik as the first Jewish astronaut in the world, the adjective ‘Jewish’ was suppressed from most evening news reports,' the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper wrote in an editorial on Tuesday. 'This single piece of information was kept under quarantine. It should perhaps be handled carefully, but instead it was suppressed.' When it comes to Jewish topics, 'German journalists and people in general are very cautious, and they don’t want to make mistakes. Rather than making a mistake they prefer to do nothing,' Thomas Schmid, a political editor at the newspaper, told JTA in an interview Wednesday. Reporters 'were astonished hearing and seeing on TV that the hijacker wanted to promote ‘the Jewish astronaut Judith Resnik.’ They said, ‘Oh, this is very strange and maybe a dangerous case for Germans, so we won’t put it in the news,’ 'Schmid said ... Asked what German journalists might have feared, Schmid said he thought many journalists 'believe there may be attitudes among the population against Jewish people, so if it’s possible not to mention that the person is a Jew, it’s better.'"

Moral Defense of Israel,
Ayn Rand Institute
[This links to an entire web page with various articles in defense of the brutal, racist Jewish state; Ayn Rand was Jewish, as are many in her "Objectivist" movement, including current Executive Director, Israeli-born Yaron Brook] This ARI web page includes titles such as "Israel Morals Match Rand Ideology"] See also "Ayn Rand on the Death of Innocents in War", also War, Nuclear Weapons and "Innocents" : "With full moral certainty we must urge our government to defend our lives, even if that requires nuclear weapons and hundreds of thousands of deaths in terrorist countries." Also, "The Immorality of a "Compassionate War" on Terrorism" "On the first day of bombing Afghan military targets, our Air Force was busy delivering charity food packages stamped 'This food is a gift from the United States of America.' We have already lavished on the Afghans more than 450,000 aid packages. Not only is such alms-giving expensive (the President has pledged $320 million worth of food and medicine), but it also betrays an obscene inversion of morality."

[ 1) Circumcision is medically unnecessary. 2) Jews, by self-definition, must be circumcised 3) Non-Jews in the Western world have had no religious reasons for circumcision. 4) Circumcision has always been the absolute way to recognize a Jew from the rest of the population, and this way was used by the Nazis. 5) Jews are preeminent in the medical field. Do these things have anything to do with each other? ]
The unkindest of cuts,
Times Online (UK), January 13, 2003
"There is one operation being carried out on thousands of British children by NHS doctors without any clinical need — and without the patient’s consent. This procedure has an irreversible physical effect, yet there has been minimal public debate about the extent to which it is being performed. The procedure is non-religious circumcision, carried out on 'therapeutic' grounds on 4 to 6 per cent of boys under 15. Increasingly, the expert consensus is that most non-religious circumcisions are carried out for reasons of family history, medical myth and professional laziness. Some campaigners claim that as many as five in six of these circumcisions are unnecessary and potentially traumatising. Circumcision has become the subject of bitter debate in the US, where 80 per cent of men are circumcised. Doctors Opposing Circumcision is one of a range of groups challenging the medical orthodoxy of circumcision at birth; their campaign has been buoyed by a statement from the American Medical Association that there is insufficient evidence of benefit to recommend routine neonatal circumcision. Here, the British Medical Association is reviewing its guidelines and is due to announce its findings in March; current guidance makes it clear that it is unethical to circumcise for therapeutic reasons where research shows that less invasive techniques are available. Norm-UK, an organisation which campaigns against circumcision, estimates that fewer than 1 per cent of boys require the operation, and that most of those performed on the NHS are unnecessary ... Yet the psychological issues are complex: in a largely Jewish or Islamic community, this argument works as much in favour of circumcision as against it. Dr Lotte Newman, a former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners who chairs the circumcision working party of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, is troubled by developments in Sweden which may lead to a ban on child circumcision there."

Student's Search for Albert Einstein's Wife and Daughter Illuminates the Theory of Relativity,
Mt. Holyoke (college)
"What started as a simple translation job led Marija Dokmanovic '99 on a three-year search for information about the lives of the wife and the illegitimate daughter of Albert Einstein. The puzzle began when, as a student at Armand Hammer United World College, Dokmanovic was approached by an author planning to write a book on Mileva Maric Einstein and the daughter Albert sired while he and Mileva were young physics students. Dokmanovic was fascinated with the topic because she (like Mileva) is from Serbia, where Mileva is known as an important scientist despite her obscure life history. Dokmanovic collaborated with author Michelle Zackheim, translating letters and faxes between Serbo-Croatian and English. Later, she, her mother, and Zackheim scoured Serbian, German, Austrian, and Swiss archives and unearthed surprising facts about the great physicist's wife and daughter. Mileva and Albert were lovers as students, and Mileva probably gave their daughter, Lieserl, up for adoption in 1902, apparently because the scandal might hurt his career. They later married, and--as letters that Dokmanovic and fellow researchers found make clear--Mileva helped Albert refine many of the ideas for which he became famous. Mileva was devoted to Albert; as a 'typical Serbian woman,' Dokmanovic says, she would do anything to please her husband. Mileva did Albert's university homework, gave up her own physics career for his, took care of their schizophrenic son even after Albert divorced her, and was his scientific partner. Dokmanovic has seen letters indicating that Albert adopted some of his wife's ideas. 'Mileva's not given any credit, but she had a great impact on Albert's research ... [Mileva] was the only woman studying in Zurich Polytech Institute. But she stopped her thesis work, married Albert, and gave him all the credit. I would never do that, not even for Albert Einstein.'"

Building Morningside Heights, [upper Manhattan area]
Columbia University
"The builders responsible for the development of most early twentieth-century apartment houses in New York City a nd almost all of the apartment buildings on Morningside Heights reflect the major changes that were occurring in the city's ethnic composition during this period, especially the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Italians and Eastern European Jews. The entry of immigrant Italians and Jews and the children of these immigrants into the worlds of real estate, building, and investment coincided with the advent of the apartment building as the most popular form of middle-class residence in Manhattan ... The most active builders on Morningside Heights were members of the Paterno family, which had emigrated from Castelemezzano near Naples. The Paterno family built 37 buildings on Morningside Heights ... The vast majority of other builders active in the Morningside Heights neighborhood were Jewish. Many were small-scale builders involved with only a few buildings, but others established major careers as apartment-house developers. Some built under their own names or as corporations that bore their names, but the most active Jewish builders incorporated as real estate firms with names stripped of Jewish ethnic identity. For example, Edgar A. Levy, Jacob Stein, and Leo S. Bing were partners in the Carlyle Realty Company, Jacob Axelrod was president of the West Side Construction Company, and Charles Newmark headed the Carnegie Construction Company. Like the builders, many, but by no means all of the architects commissioned by the speculative developers to design apartment buildings were also from Italian and Jewish backgrounds, including Gaetan Ajello, Simon Schwartz, Arthur Gross, George and Edward Blum, and William Rouse."

Hitler's clairvoyant. A new biography tells the bizarre tale of the Jewish psychic who met with the future Führer for private sessions and predicted his rise,
Salon.com, February 27, 2002
"In the weeks leading up to Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reichschancellor on Jan. 30, 1933, there was nothing inevitable about the Austrian corporal's ascension to power. Results of the 1932 November Reichstag elections were disappointing for his National Socialist Party, with the Nazis suffering losses in the German parliament while retaining about a third of the seats there. Nazi coffers had been drained dry by the campaign. Hitler had endured significant defections from his movement and threatened suicide. Some Nazis began to wonder if he had the right stuff to be their Führer. It was at this point that Hitler, falling back on his belief in the occult, called the most renowned clairvoyant in the land to his headquarters at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin for a private session. The man Hitler met with that day is the subject of a recent biography (the first in the English language), 'Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant,' by Mel Gordon. Hanussen, 43 at the time of the Hotel Kaiserhof session, was a man whose name was synonymous with psychic phenomena in Central Europe. The Vienna-born con man/celebrity seer was known for predicting the future, casting prescient horoscopes and astounding audiences with his feats of hypnotism and mind reading. In Berlin, Hanussen [born Hermann Steinschneider] was a rock star before there were rock stars, with a vast business enterprise trading on the voracious German hunger for all things paranormal. Hitler became a Hanussenite when in March of 1932 the psychic's own weekly newspaper, Erik Jan Hanussen's Berliner Wochenschau, printed the startling prophecy that within one year's time the future Führer would become Reichschancellor. Most Berliners scoffed. For many, Hitler was a megalomaniacal clown. But if the average Berliner thought Hanussen's prognostication absurd, Hitler certainly didn't. When Hanussen came to him that cold day in January, the Nazi leader was filled with dread anticipation, and kept the meeting secret should the results be negative. Hanussen placed Hitler on a seat in the middle of the room, examined his hands, counted the bumps on his head and sank into a mystical trance. The words he spoke filled the Führer with elation, says Gordon. 'I see victory for you,' Hanussen said. 'It cannot be stopped.' By the end of the month, Hitler had cut a deal with his enemies and become titular head of a coalition government. Hanussen's vision had given him hope in his hour of uncertainty. One can only wonder the intensity of his rage, if the raving anti-Semite had known at the time that the man he had adopted as his personal soothsayer, the chap nicknamed 'the Prophet of the Third Reich,' the decadent mystic who had just run his hands through his Aryan locks, was in fact ... a Jew ... The burning of the Reichstag on Feb. 27, 1933, for which German communists took the fall, paved the way for the consolidation of power in Hitler's hands and the suspension of all civil liberties. Eerily, the day before, Hanussen had predicted the event through a medium during the opening soiree of his newly minted pagan temple, the Palace of the Occult, a marble and gold-decked Taj Mahal of the black arts in Berlin decorated with astrological signs and religious statues."

Nobody’s Punching Bag,
Moment, December-January
"Jackie Kallen thinks of Jews as natural-born fighters. It’s part of our heritage to do battle,' she says—and she should know—she’s made a career of it. And now Hollywood has taken notice. Known by many as the 'first lady of boxing,' this 56-year-old ex-journalist has managed four champions, including six-time crown-holder Tommy 'Hit Man' Hearns and middleweight champion James 'Lights Out' Toney. What’s a nice bubbe from Detroit doing in the fight game? Doing what comes naturally, that’s what. 'Managing a boxer,' she says matter-of-factly, is 'a lot like being a Jewish mother. A manager has to take care of her fighter’s living situation, meals, grooming, you name it.' While catering to the needs of her surrogate family members—she’s even played Scrabble with them to soothe big-fight jitters—Kallen became the inspiration for a soon-to-be released major motion picture starring Meg Ryan called Up Against the Ropes."

Sorting through the Shuttle Debris,
Hoffman Wire, by Michael A. Hoffman II, February 2, 2003
"NASA astronaut Ilan Ramon was a scientist, conducting dust particle experiments under the supervision of Yehoyahin Yosef, professor of planetary physics at Tel Aviv University. Ramon was also a colonel in the Israeli air force, a war hero according to the Washington Post, '...who took part in Israel's famed 1981 bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor...Ramon clocked more than 3,000 hours as a combat pilot in A-4, Mirage III-C and F-4 Phantom fighter planes, and he logged more than 1,000 in the U.S.-built F-16....He fought in the 1982 war in Lebanon.' But what burnishes Ramon's image more than any other of his dazzling accomplishments, is his hallowed niche in the pantheon of Holocaustianity, the West's state religion. In an interview published by Israel's Foreign Ministry, Col. Ramon declared, 'I'm the son of a Holocaust survivor. I carry on the suffering of the Holocaust generation...' In an interview with NASA, he noted that his mother had been imprisoned in Auschwitz and held the exalted status of 'Holocaust Survivor.' The Washington Post reported, 'Like many astronauts, Ramon took a variety of personal effects with him into space...He...took a pencil drawing entitled 'Moon Landscape' by a 14-year-old Jewish boy, Peter Ginz, who was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.' And thus a legend is born, Ilan Ramon, patron saint of astronauts and that lofty class of congenital sufferers, the Children of Holocaust Survivors. To this pious category must be added another in the taxonomy of victimhood, the Survivors of Dead Zionist Astronauts. Prior to Ramon there was Resnick, one of seven astronauts killed in the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle explosion. One hesitates to raise puckish questions during a funerary rite, but perhaps we might be forgiven if we pause in the midst of Col. Ramon's hagiography just long enough to burn a requiem candle to the memory of the French scientist and the two other people Ramon killed when he bombed the Iraqi reactor in 1981. Back then, Col. Ramon's bombing was infamous rather than 'famed.' Even the NY Times characterized it as 'a sneak attack...an act of inexcusable and short-sighted aggression.' The celebrated Israeli scientist-astronaut is thus guilty of the murder of a scientist, but the life of the French scientist and the status of his survivors is, under the circumstances, not worth the faintest mention. Moreover, our hero 'fought' in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, logging thousands of hours in military aircraft. The use of the word 'fought' with regard to Lebanon smacks of some slight hyperbole, in that the Israeli air force was unopposed over Beirut's skies, as Ramon and his fellow heroes dropped wave after wave of napalm and cluster bombs on schools, hospitals and apartment buildings, culminating in the around-the-clock terror-bombing of downtown Beirut in August, 1982. The Israelis killed an estimated 20,000 civilians in Lebanon. Would it be opportune to light a candle for those Arab victims of this Israeli holocaust, or is Arab blood undeserving of recollection? ... As Israeli newscasters reported that the shuttle catastrophe had been visible over a town in Texas named Palestine, it was, said Reuters Jerusalem correspondent Michele Gershberg,"a bitter irony lost on no one." The medium is the message. The symbolism of the Israeli 'combat air force' pilot blowing up in the approximate vicinity of Palestine, Texas requires no embellishment or explication. This is sunrise language rather than twilight language, telegraphing a message as unmistakable as a left hook to the jaw. Rarely does what we might call 'the hand of God' move so dramatically in world affairs, but when it does there are no excuses for ignorance; it is 'a bitter irony lost on no one.' Human beings are often muttering, 'Why is God silent?' On the morning of Feb. 1, He fairly shouted at a deaf, dumb and blind western world, which, until then, had been content to celebrate NASA's selection of an Israeli astronaut in the midst of the ongoing collective punishment of the Palestinian people. When this writer learned that an Israeli was in orbit on NASA's shuttle, the first image that came to my mind was of all the dead and dying in Palestine, and of how America had lost all sense of shame. Now there are other dead strewn across the landscape of an alternate Palestine. It remains to be seen whether from this disaster we learn the sobering message that the Supreme Power wishes to impart, or if we submit ourselves instead to the beguiling electronic spectacle generated by the rulers of this world, who are not yet, for all their space age gizmos and gadgets, masters of the heavens. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord."

Rivers of ridicule, STAGE REVIEW: JOAN RIVERS,
Australian Jewish News, February 24, 2003
"Once you have seen her perform, there is no way to be neutral about American entertainer Joan Rivers. You are either a fan and they packed her Australian tour shows last week, roaring with laughter or you're not. As a first-timer at a Rivers performance, I'm afraid I now belong to the latter category. Strutting on stage to deliver a localised version of her London West End show Broke and Alone, Rivers unleashed a blizzard of one-liners that savaged just about every subject imaginable. Wall-to-wall obscenities actually were not the turn-off although the ferocious speed with which she spits them out made them tedious and somehow took away that acerbic underscore that comedians hope for when they swear. The stream of four-letter words simply had the effect of making the content of her material even more vituperative. It's an age of receding boundaries, with almost every subject fair game, yet some might find Holocaust humour distressing. I did. There was an Anne Frank joke. No thanks. Rivers' comic universe is a parade of crude 1970s-era stereotypes. It is a realm in which the world belongs to the rich and the thin and where the poor, the obese, the aged and infirm are pariahs to be ridiculed ... If Rivers' comic business is perpetuating the persona of the bad New York broad, then she excels."

Erich Fromm, Judaism, and the Frankfurt School,
By Douglas Kellner, Illuminations
"The Frankfurt School had a highly ambivalent relation to Judaism. On one hand, they were part of that Enlightenment tradition that opposed authority, tradition, and all institutions of the past -- including religion. They were also, for the most part, secular Jews who did not support any organized religion, or practice religious or cultural Judaism. In this sense, they were in the tradition of Heine, Marx, and Freud for whom Judaism was neither a constitutive feature of their life or work, nor a significant aspect of their self-image and identity. And yet the Frankfurt School's relation to Judaism was varied. Several of the key members of the group had orthodox Jewish upbringings, or at least studied and practiced some elements of Judaism. Moreover, for some of the members, Judaism played an important role in their life and work. For Walter Benjamin and Erich Fromm, their Judaic heritage figured importantly in key stages of their lives and works. Judaism was of some but arguably not major significance at different stages of their lives for Lowenthal and Horkheimer; and Judaism appears not to have been particularly important for Marcuse and Adorno. Yet all Jews were outsiders in Weimar Germany and all of the Frankfurt School were forced into exile because of their Jewish background after the rise of fascism in 1933. One could argue that the members of the Frankfurt School were also to some extent outsiders in the United States where they found exile in part at least because of their Jewishness. At this time, the Frankfurt school made anti-semitism, prejudice, and the situation of the Jews a major thematic focus of their work. During the years in Weimar prior to emigration in 1934, however, the Frankfurt School did not thematize the issue of the situation of the Jews in their major works and in a 1938 article the Director of the Institute for Social Research, Max Horkheimer, wrote an article 'The Jews in Europe' in which anti-semitism was explained as a mere reflex of the vicissitudes of monopoly capitalism in the end of its liberal phase ... In this entry, I will discuss the ways that Judaism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism intersected in the work of Erich Fromm, constituting a distinctive mode of Jewish writing that combined religion and Enlightenment conceptions. I argue that Fromm was at once traditionally Jewish and radically secular, and that his early immerse in Jewish religion and culture came to shape his distinctive views and work ... Fromm himself was born into an orthodox Jewish family and both of his parents came from families of rabbis ... Throughout his youth, Fromm was deeply involved in the study of the Talmud and with his friend Leo Lowenthal, later an important member of the Frankfurt School, he joined the circle around the eminent Rabbi Nehemiah Nobel, rabbi of the largest Frankfurt synagogue ... In the middle of the 1920s, Fromm was introduced to psychoanalysis via the Jewish psychoanalyst Frieda Reichmann, who later became his wife. Reichman ran a private psychoanalytic institution in Heidelberg which practiced Jewish traditions, earning the Institute the nickname of the 'Torah-peutic Clinic.' Fromm himself trained as a psychoanalyst, opened his own practice in 1927, and married Reichmann. Fromm's first published essay was on 'The Sabbath' and, drawing on psychoanalysis, he argued that 'The Sabbath originally served as a reminder of the killing of the father and the winning of the mother; the commandment not to work served as a penance for original sin and for its repetition through regression to the pre-genital stage' ... One of his first major essays was on 'The Dogma of Christ' (1930; reprinted 1963) in which Fromm argued against the interpretation of the origins of Christianity of another psychoanalyst, Theodor Reik."

Goldenberg candy,
(web site)

[Charles Hurwitz, a United Jewish Appeal-Federation official, is the majority stockholder in Maxxam]
Logging Pollution Damages North Coast Watersheds,
Environment News Service, January 29, 2003
"Accelerated logging has polluted some 85 percent of the waters in California's North Coast region, uprooted protected redwoods and damaged private property, but state officials continue to permit logging companies to avoid complying with environmental regulations. California environmentalists are fighting back with lawsuits, and activists continue to take to the trees in a desperate attempt to save ancient redwoods and their surrounding ecosystems ... The controversy over the management of the North Coast forests has deep roots. In 1985, Maxxam, a Texas based corporation, succeeded in a $900 million hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber, a company with local ties stretching back to the 1850s. Maxxam kept the Pacific Lumber name, but tripled the rate of its logging operations. A chorus of protests soon followed, as activists took to the streets and to the trees, appealing to the public and the logging industry to protect many of the world's last redwood forests. The result of these protests came 10 years later, with the Headwaters Forest deal between the federal government and Pacific Lumber. At the heart of the deal was the exchange of $480 million in public money for some 7,500 acres of ancient redwoods, which is called the Headwaters Forest. Although it included a 50 year ban on logging within some additional 7,000 acres, it allowed Pacific Lumber to bypass many logging restrictions on much of its land, including protections for endangered species and limits on the rate of logging. The company owns some 210,000 acres in Humboldt County. It is nearly four years later and many local activists are clearly not happy with the consequences."

[Another Jewish monopoly:]
Ever wonder why the stars come out for charity? Thank celebrity brokers,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 3, 2003
"Celebrity Connection, founded 20 years ago by Barry Greenberg, is the exclusive coordinator for all of B’nai B’rith’s fund-raising dinners in the United States. Greenberg, 51, is a pioneer in the celebrity brokering business, which involves finding, matching and hiring celebrities to make appearances on behalf of organizations. While celebrity brokering is still a small industry, it’s growing fast as America becomes ever more obsessed with celebrity. Curiously, virtually all the major players in the field are Jewish. 'Initially, Celebrity Connection was conceived as a clearinghouse for celebrity participation in charity,' recalls Greenberg, who previously worked for Jewish nonprofit organizations, including B’nai B’rith and the Jewish National Fund, and currently is vice president of Temple Israel of Hollywood, Calif ... While Celebrity Connection is the oldest and biggest firm in the industry, another key player is Celebrity Source in Los Angeles. Established in 1988 by Rita Tateel, who has a background in Jewish communal service, Celebrity Source also is a full-service firm, which often arranges video or satellite celebrity if celebrities can’t attend an event in person ... Another player in the field is Mark Goldman, founder and principal of the Oxnard, Calif-based Damon Brooks, a boutique firm in the niche market of celebrities and athletes who have overcome disabilities ... [Billy] Crystal, for example, 'throws his energy into big projects, like the planned Performing Arts Peace Center at the Hebrew University, to which he has personally donated $1.5 million,' Brezner says."

Leaders of the Pack.A new book recounts the large Jewish influence on rock ’n’ roll, but misses a few beats,
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angles, February 14, 2003
[Review of “Rock ’n’ Roll Jews,” by Professor Michael Billig - Syracuse University Press, $19.95]
"Mothers, politicians (Southerners, especially) and clergy alike worried that rock music would rot the morality of their children. To classical music aficionados, rock was merely a geological formation, certainly not a musical form. Nevertheless, it has not only endured for a half-century, but rock music has created a volcano in popular world culture. Today rock music is a multibillion dollar industry, by far the most profitable and distributed of all musical genres. In 'Rock ’n’ Roll Jews' — a personal passion of Professor Michael Billig of England’s Loughborough University — we discover that Jews were, and continue to be, major players in the rock industry. For every 'name' performer, like Bette Midler, there are hundreds of behind-the-scenes Jewish figures who have enabled rock to thrive. To Billig, rock is very 'Jewish' ... Irving Berlin, who popularized Tin Pan Alley music (the forerunner of rock), was a commercially successful role model for many of the pioneer Jewish rock ’n’ rollers. The heroes of Billig’s rich work are not the household names we recognize as performers. Rather, they are the obscure and often tormented lives of songwriters with names like Doc Pomus (R&B songwriter for Elvis), who was confined to a wheelchair due to childhood polio. Other personalities in the book include Los Angeles’ own enigmatic producer, Phil Spector Another interesting story is told of Lou Reed, the urban music legend of 'Take A Walk on the Wild Side' fame. He wrote racy lyrics at a time when radio stations were fearful of having their licenses lifted by the Federal Communications Commission. We also find colorful sketches of Monterey Rock Music Festival maven Lou Adler, but not his co-producer, Holocaust survivor Bill Graham. And then there are the 'black lyrics' of co-writers Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller ... Billig defends the role of the Jews. He observes that Jews wrote, produced and successfully distributed to white radio stations many top hits for black groups ... ” Only in the “counterculture” 1960s did other obviously Jewish performers surface. The nonethnic Tom and Jerry of the 1950s became the very Jewish Simon and Garfunkel of the 1960s and ’70s. Billy Joel, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is another rock idol of the new type. Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow represent a middle-of-the-road musical sound and a very Jewish persona. Paradoxically, the two groups that bemoan “satanic” rock music the most — Evangelical Christians and Orthodox Jews — both use this medium to effectively communicate the human relationship to God. For trivia buffs, Norman Greenbaum is the Jewish singer-songwriter behind one of the most popular Christian rock songs of all-time, 'Spirit in the Sky.' Yet, he never converted to Christianity."

Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros,
New York Press, February 18, 2003
"A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself. The Times reporter was wrapping up his breakfast interview with the Grand Dragon of New York, the state boss of the Ku Klux Klan. They were in a luncheonette near Lefferts Blvd. in Queens, a little before 9:00 a.m. on Fri., Oct. 29, 1965. They had gone over the Klansman’s education, jobs, and military career. Then John McCandlish Phillips asked Daniel Burros how he had become a Nazi. The 28-year-old Burros, squat, blue-eyed, with crew-cut blond hair, talked about his admiration of the Third Reich and his hatred of the Jews, gloating that their purge in the United States would be far more violent than it had been in a 'civilized and highly cultured' country like Germany. The conversation continued until Phillips murmured, 'Your parents were married by the Reverend Bernard Kallenberg in a Jewish ceremony in The Bronx.' Before leaving the luncheonette, Burros said that he would kill Phillips. Daniel Burros, son of George and Esther Sunshine Burros, grandson of Russian Jews, was born March 5, 1937. He attended Hebrew school at Talmud Torah in Richmond Hill; his bar mitzvah was held there on March 4, 1950, the fifteenth day of Adar ... Burros worked as a printer at the Queens Borough Public Library. Though a diligent, conscientious employee, he talked of nothing but his admiration for Hitler and his hatred of Jews. His parents knew. They prayed it would go away. In his spare time, Burros operated the one-man American National Socialist Party from a post office box in South Ozone Park. He rubber-stamped swastikas onto his letters; distributed fliers such as 'There’s Nothing Wrong with America That a Pogrom Wouldn’t Cure.' He preached that 'the Jews must suffer and suffer and suffer.' In 1960, Burros moved to Arlington, VA. He lived at the headquarters of the American Nazi Party, where the rug was an ark curtain from a synagogue. He swore an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler and to George Lincoln Rockwell, the American Nazi leader ... While working at a Manhattan printing company, Burros joined other dissident Nazis in founding the American National Party."

[So, what does the following article signify? That Jewish author Daniel Levitas is a fraudster, trying to pin the label of  "Jewish" upon virtually all and everything -- wherein virtually ANYTHING is coopted to the "Jewish" root, or that "Jews" DO turn up at the helm of virtually all and everything? In either case, apparently unbeknownst to Mr. Levitas, he makes a bizarre case for "Jewish" omnipresence.]
Hate thy neighbor,
by Daniel Levitas, Creative Loafing, November 27, 2002
"The raspy voice of 'Reverend' William Potter Gale filled the airwaves over western Kansas on a summer night in July 1982. From the studios of country music station KTTL in Dodge City, Gale's tape-recorded sermon carried into homes, diners, cars and the cabs of combines that rolled across the last unharvested fields of winter wheat. The retired Army lieutenant colonel spoke in short rapid-fire bursts: ...'If a Jew comes near you, run a sword through him.' Like Gale's other speeches and sermons, this broadcast had a hate-filled theme: A satanic Jewish conspiracy disguised as communism was corrupting public officials and the courts, undermining the sovereignty of America and its divinely inspired Constitution. Gale, a self-proclaimed 'minister' in the Christian faith, believed that white Anglo-Saxon Christians were the true descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel to whom God's covenant belonged. Jews were children of the devil,and the nonwhites that swarmed the planet were 'mud people,' incomplete renditions of the pure Aryan man that God created in Adam. Obsessed with maintaining white supremacy, Gale railed against all forms of 'race-mixing' as a violation of 'God's law.' Other sermons warned of racial Armageddon, attacked Catholics and other minorities, and advised listeners to learn guerrilla warfare so they could garrote people in their sleep. 'You're damn right I'm teaching violence!" Gale acknowledged. You better start making dossiers, names, addresses, phone numbers, car license numbers, on every damn Jew rabbi in this land ... and you better start doing it now. And know where he is. If you have to be told any more than that, you're too damn dumb to bother with.' But William Potter Gale had a secret -- something that ultimately exposed the hypocrisy of all he preached ... Inspired by his hatred of the government, Gale created the paramilitary group known as the Posse Comitatus ... Gale officially established the Posse Comitatus in 1971. And a decade later, he helped launch the Christian Patriot movement ... During the early '70s, when other right-wing organizations were collapsing, the Posse thrived by disseminating its ideas and spawning successive waves of violence. It was largely unaffected by Gale's death in 1988, 17 years after its founding. Like children grown to maturity, the forces he shaped have fueled the radical right to the present day. From Gale's original ideas and comparatively narrow base of tax protesters and Christian Identity believers, the message of the Posse Comitatus has spread across America, spawning crime and violence and pushing seemingly marginal ideas into the mainstream. It ultimately metamorphosed into the broader Christian Patriot and militia movements of the late '80s and '90s. For decades, the Ku Klux Klan and its various allies had created social movements and sought political power based upon explicit appeals to racial purity and Christian Nationalism. Gale was no less fanatical in his devotion to 'white survival' or his denunciations of world Jewry -- a fanaticism that may well have grown out of a fervent self-denial of his own genealogy ... Even today, millions of Americans share the belief that the United States should be a predominantly Christian nation. That blacks breed crime and are innately less intelligent than whites. That interracial marriage should be against the law. That Jews are clannish, cunning and too powerful for the good of the country. Added to these essential themes of bigotry -- which resonate well beyond the ranks of the far right -- is the vague but popular notion that the nation is on the verge of relinquishing its sovereignty to a shadowy cabal of 'globalistic' forces known as 'the New World Order' ... The resulting threats and violence prompted the United States Department of Justice to launch a full domestic security investigation of the Posse in 1976 ... But the story of the Posse Comitatus begins not with a litany of its failures and achievements, or with the Oklahoma City bombing, or with manifestos and sermons, or with violent altercations that made headlines and left lawmen and others dead. It starts at a personal level, a century earlier, with the ancestors of William Potter Gale and their arrival in America. Like other 19th-century immigrants, they were fleeing tyranny and seeking freedom. And remarkably, the Gale family was Jewish. Over his three decades of right-wing activism, Gale successfully hid the secret of his Jewish roots, even as he preached the anti-Semitic theology of Christian Identity, claiming that Jews were satanic and white Anglo-Saxon Christians were the true descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ironically enough, Bill Gale was a Jewish anti-Semite who spent a lifetime trying to convince Christian anti-Semites that they, too, were Jews."

[The Anti-Defamation League has for years co-opted the FBI in ADL's search for "hate" and "anti-Semitism." The Jewish American Lobby's private, pro-Israel spy agency has morphed into America's government surveillance system.]
Remarks prepared for delivery,
by Robert S. Mueller III, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Anti-Defamation League's 24th Annual National Leadership Conference Washington, DC May 7, 2002
"I have long admired and respected the work of ADL, and I appreciate your longstanding support of the FBI. I know that under my predecessor, Louis Freeh, this partnership reached new heights. As I told Abe and Jess [heads of the ADL], I am absolutely committed to building on that relationship. We in the FBI tremendously value your perspectives and your partnership. Your insights and research into extremism are particularly helpful to us, shedding light on the changing nature of the terrorist threats facing America. Your support of hate crime and terrorist investigations, which are now front and center in the work of the FBI, is essential to us. And the training and education you provide for the FBI and for law enforcement have never been more relevant. That includes the conference on extremist and terrorist threats you are sponsoring later this month at the FBI Academy. And it especially includes the classes at the Holocaust Museum that Abe and Jess helped arrange for our New Agents and for National Academy students."

Police On My Back. Costa Mesa cops bomb U.S. Bombs show, Kona Lanes is collateral damage,
Orange Country Register (California), August 1999
"Is the Costa Mesa Police Department, in its zeal to protect the public, slandering OC bands by branding them 'Nazis' or 'skinheads' when they’re nothing of the kind? That’s the question in the wake of a canceled July 10 show by local punkers U.S. Bombs. The band was set to play a record-release party for the group’s latest disc, The World, at Kona Lanes, a Harbor Boulevard bowling alley. Tickets had been sold for the all-ages show, and everything seemed in order—until July 7. That’s when Costa Mesa police Sergeant Clay Epperson approached Kona Lanes management and told them the show could not go on. The reason: Epperson allegedly asserted that U.S. Bombs is a Nazi band, citing as evidence an event flier depicting a shaven-headed, skanking youth. Epperson also told promoters they didn’t have the right permits, and the show was pulled. Scott Tucker, the promoter who booked the U.S. Bombs show at Kona Lanes, admits he may not have had his paperwork in order, but, he says, he had booked shows at the venue last summer under the exact same permits, and there had never been any problems with police before. He says the cancellation cost him and U.S. Bombs about $4,000, as well as a Muffs gig that had to be moved. Tucker says he eventually contacted Epperson in an effort to get to the bottom of things. 'The first thing he asked me was, ‘Do [U.S. Bombs] have a Nazi following?’ I said they didn’t,' says Tucker, who is Jewish."

Rockin’ for Israel. Musicians provide Holy Land support for a song,
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, February 23, 2003
"Whereas nightclub gigs seem unlikely places for political rhetoric, Rebbe Soul and a number of other Los Angeles-based musicians are finding that the concert stage provides them with a mini soapbox, where they can espouse their views and galvanize support for Israel from a younger, otherwise disinterested crowd in a way that other political efforts cannot. These musicians, such as Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, The Wallflowers’ Rami Jaffee, Peter Himmelman, the Moshav Band, the Jukebox Junkies and rapper Etan G, are using their art for a cause, either by singing songs that call for the support of the Holy Land, donating their appearance for concerts where the proceeds go to Israel, or both. While the artists tend to steer clear of erudite analyses of Middle East problems, they allow their music to create a supportive, feel-good milieu that will leave listeners feeling positively about Israel. 'Music has a way of breaking down doors, and musicians can really educate the next generation,” said Stuart Wax, the founder of Midnight Music Management, who organized a Rock for Israel concert last May at The Mint nightclub. 'I remember a few years ago years ago, Metallica played a concert in Russia that was televised on MTV, but the same night Slash from Guns N’ Roses was playing ‘Hava Nagila’ at a concert in Tel Aviv, and it was not mentioned anywhere,' he said. 'If kids saw that Guns N’ Roses are playing in Israel and Perry Farrel was playing in Israel, they could understand that Israel is not the [demonized country] they see on TV' ... 'Whenever an organization calls up and says we want to do something for Israel, I usually do it for free,' said Etan G, otherwise known as the Jewish Rapper, who often travels to Israel to perform ... Another Rock for Israel act, the Moshav Band, a Los Angeles-based group made up of three Israeli ex-pats from Moshav Modiin, the settlement founded by the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, have spent the past few years playing gigs in college campuses in order to raise awareness of Israel and Judaism. Many of the concerts were performed as part of an Edgar Bronfman sponsored effort called the Wake Up Tour."

[Jews are the navel of the universe. Is this not an established premise of modern Western culture? And now Judeocentrism declares that the Enlightenment -- the ideological opening that drew Jews out of their self-imposed Talmudic ghettos -- is the basis for fascism. Today's Judeocentrism is the real "fascism" and suffocating totalitarianism in intellectual thinking, wherein all thought, all reality, is twisted to revolve around the presumed Jewish sun against all the rest that is declared now to be darkness.]
The Rage of Reason. A scholar argues that Enlightenment thought was shaped by its obsession with Judaism,
by Danny Postel, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 28, 2003
"For all their championing of reason, toleration, and individual rights, the heroes of the Enlightenment were not exactly enlightened about Jews. A 'vile people, superstitious, ignorant, and both scientifically and commercially stunted,' wrote no less an Enlightenment icon than Voltaire. Such pronouncements were not out of step with the views of many other Enlightenment thinkers. But in his highly anticipated first book, Adam Sutcliffe, a 33-year-old assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, makes the bold claim that what has for centuries been referred to as 'the Jewish question,' rather than being merely a less-than-admirable aspect of Enlightenment thought, was actually of central importance in shaping it. 'Like a stubborn shard of intellectual grit,' Judaism was a 'ubiquitous, troubling, and often frustrating presence' for the philosophical architects of the movement, writes Mr. Sutcliffe in Judaism and Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press). Regarded as 'not only the most venerably orthodox but also the most inscrutable and most potentially subversive strand of theology,' he says, Judaism was 'uniquely difficult for Enlightenment thinkers to negotiate.' The 'Jewish question' brought out what Mr. Sutcliffe regards as important paradoxes in their thought -- unresolved tensions that he maintains constantly threatened to undermine the very Enlightenment idea. The British-born historian is not the first writer to knock Enlightenment thinkers off their pedestals. The period's 'dark side' has been a recurring theme for more than a century now. Critics (among them Friedrich Nietzsche, the Romantic poets, and Michel Foucault) have charged the Enlightenment as an accomplice to a range of crimes that include not only racism, sexism, and 'phallologocentrism,' but also bureaucracy, technocracy, ecological devastation, Western imperialism -- even fascism. Indeed, in the eyes of some postmodernists, the 'totalizing' tendency of Enlightenment thought -- the aspiration to subsume all of reality in its province -- leads inexorably to totalitarianism. Despite the long tradition of such critiques, scholars are calling Mr. Sutcliffe's work groundbreaking ... During the early years of the Enlightenment -- in the mid-1600s -- there was an intense fascination with Jewish themes and texts. The Reformation ushered in a renewed emphasis on the Old Testament, a turning to Christianity's Jewish roots. Scholars in the new discipline of Christian Hebraism mastered Hebrew and pored over ancient Jewish texts like the Kabbalah, 'scouring' them, Mr. Sutcliffe writes, 'for further proofs of the truth of Christianity' and drawing inspiration from the study of Jewish history. But much of this new focus on Judaism was laced with animosity toward its subject. In what Mr. Sutcliffe describes as a 'barbed embrace,' early Enlightenment thinkers simultaneously idealized and repudiated Judaism, an attraction-repulsion that surfaced repeatedly. Indeed, Mr. Sutcliffe writes, philo-Semitism and Judeophobia were 'frequently intertwined in the same text and even in the same sentence.' Paradoxically, however, as Enlightenment thought became increasingly hostile to religion, it focused on Judaism as the source of Christendom. To attack Christianity at its roots, thinkers such as John Toland and Voltaire turned their critical ire on its Jewish foundations. For the champions of the new Empire of Reason, Judaism came to represent everything they were against. To them, Judaism embodied tribalism, scripturalism, legalism, and irrational adherence to tradition. Where the Enlightenment upheld reason, Judaism wallowed in myth. The Enlightenment stood for the universal, Judaism for the particular. Enlightenment meant cosmopolitanism, Judaism insularity. The Enlightenment promised progress, Judaism threatened atavism. In short, the Enlightenment came to define itself, Mr. Sutcliffe argues, as the antithesis of all things Jewish. It was against the backdrop of this self-image, he argues, that the Enlightenment faced a vexing challenge to its own logic. At the deep heart's core of Enlightenment values was the principle of tolerance. Jews, for Enlightenment thinkers, represented the quintessence of intolerance: intellectually closed off and culturally sealed in. Can an intolerant group of people be tolerated? ... Mr. Sutcliffe, who himself has Jewish roots, 'succeeds in showing that a true understanding of the Enlightenment must take Judaism into account' and will thus change the way scholars approach the subject."

["Burt Prelutsky is a veteran TV writer whose credits include, among others, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show and Diagnosis Murder."]
Diversity, schmiversity,
by Burt Prelutsky, Jewish World Review, March 6, 2003
"A few years ago, I was an Executive Story Consultant on the Dick Van Dyke series, 'Diagnosis Murder.' There were five on us working in the writers' room. We were, by most measures, a fairly diverse group of individuals. Two of us were born in New York, one in New Orleans, one in Chicago, one in a small town in Utah. Three of us were Jews, ranging from Conservative down to merely cultural; one was an ex-Catholic; one was Mormon."

Tearing it up. Michael Savage, once an angry white man who couldn't get the job he wanted, is now a voice of ultraconservatism.. His popular radio talk show can be nasty and politically incorrect. Tough,
Los Angeles Times, March 7 2003
"Operating from his private radio studio on the 15th story of a San Francisco luxury apartment building, Michael Savage, host of the nationally syndicated 'Savage Nation' talk show, is on a tear ... Take a current issue, mine it for possible political correctness, and recast it as a left-wing conspiracy. It is a formula that works. After an earlier career as a writer of homeopathic medicine and folk-remedy books, Savage has emerged as one of the hottest radio hosts in America, reaching 6 million listeners in a network of more than 300 stations nationwide, including KPLS-AM (830) in Los Angeles. His book, also called 'Savage Nation,' has been atop the New York Times bestseller list for weeks. MSNBC has hired him to host his own live TV show, which is to be seen for the first time Saturday. That news sparked an immediate wave of protest, led by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the National Organization for Women and the liberal media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting ... Savage, whose real name is Michael A. Weiner, began his radio career in 1995 at San Francisco's KSFO, a Walt Disney Co. all-talk station that detractors have dubbed 'seig heil on the dial' because of its steady stream of conservative programming, led by the gravel-voiced 60-year-old shock jock, who lives in Marin County. By dwelling on his pet peeves -- illegal immigration, multilingualism and cultural diversity -- Savage trails only Rush Limbaugh (14.5 million listeners); Sean Hannity (10 million); Howard Stern and Dr. Laura Schlessinger (8 million each) at the top of the national talk radio heap, according to Talkers Magazine, the authoritative industry publication ... Who knows how things might have turned out if just one of the 50 colleges Michael A. Weiner applied to for a job beginning in 1978 had responded positively. Weiner, father of two young children, had just received his PhD in epidemiology and nutrition from UC Berkeley. Instead, the grandson of a Jewish immigrant who grew up in the Bronx and who worked previous jobs as a social worker and a high school teacher, met rejection on all fronts."

American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition, Judge Tells Harvard Law School,
MassNews, March 7, 2003
"The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition, Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, told the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School on February 28. She said that the question of what is morally right is routinely sacrificed to what is politically expedient. The change has come because legal philosophy has descended to nihilism ... 'The first 100 years of American lawyers were trained on Blackstone, who wrote that: 'The law of nature … dictated by God himself … is binding … in all counties and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all force and all their authority … from this original.' The Framers created a government of limited power with this understanding of the rule of law - that it was dependent on transcendent religious obligation,' said Jones. She said that the business about all of the Founding Fathers being deists is 'just wrong,' or 'way overblown.' She says they believed in 'faith and reason,' and this did not lead to intolerance. 'This is not a prescription for intolerance or narrow sectarianism,' she continued, 'for unalienable rights were given by God to all our fellow citizens. Having lost sight of the moral and religious foundations of the rule of law, we are vulnerable to the destruction of our freedom, our equality before the law and our self-respect. ... The legal aristocracy have shed their professional independence for the temptations and materialism associated with becoming businessmen. Because law has become a self-avowed business, pressure mounts to give clients the advice they want to hear, to pander to the clients' goal through deft manipulation of the law. … While the business mentality produces certain benefits, like occasional competition to charge clients lower fees, other adverse effects include advertising and shameless self-promotion. The legal system has also been wounded by lawyers who themselves no longer respect the rule of law. The judge quoted Kenneth Starr as saying, 'It is decidedly unchristian to win at any cost,' and added that most lawyers agree with him. However, 'An increasingly visible and vocal number apparently believe that the strategic use of anger and incivility will achieve their aims. Others seem uninhibited about making misstatements to the court or their opponents or destroying or falsifying evidence,' she claimed. 'When lawyers cannot be trusted to observe the fair processes essential to maintaining the rule of law, how can we expect the public to respect the process?"

Jewish Music,
Jinfo
"Western classical music is an outgrowth of the Gregorian chant, which had its origins in the liturgical chants of the synagogue service. In modern times, Jews have played a major role in music as performers, conductors, and composers. Of the one hundred leading virtuoso performers of the twentieth century listed at http://www.oboss.nl/muziek/100players.htm, approximately two-thirds of the violinists, half the cellists, and forty percent of the pianists were, or are, Jews. Of the one hundred leading conductors of the twentieth century listed at http://www.oboss.nl/muziek/100conductors.htm, approximately one-fourth were, or are, Jews. Among the leading classical composers, the Jewish representation is a more modest ten percent (cf., Master Composers). Jewish composers have, however, played a predominant role in the development of the American musical theater and in the development of film music (at least nine of the "Hollywood Ten" who pioneered this genre were Jews). Finally, approximately one-half of the membership of the Songwriters Hall of Fame is Jewish."

BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS WRITTEN BY JEWS,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
ANNIE, Martin Charnin (w) and Charles Strouse (m) ANNIE,GET YOUR GUN, Irving Berlin (w&m) BABES IN ARMS, Lorenz Hart (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) BARNUM, Michael Stewart1 (w) and Cy Coleman (m) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Howard Ashman (w) and Alan Menken (m) BELLS ARE RINGING, Betty Comden/Adolph Green (w) and Jule Styne (m) THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, Lorenz Hart (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) BRIGADOON, Alan Jay Lerner (w) and Frederick Loewe (m) BYE BYE BIRDIE, Lee Adams2 (w) and Charles Strouse (m) CABARET, Fred Ebb (w) and John Kander (m) CAMELOT, Alan Jay Lerner (w) and Frederick Loewe (m) CANDIDE, Stephen Sondheim (w) and Leonard Bernstein (m) [lyrics also by Richard Wilbur (?)] CAROUSEL, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) CHICAGO, Fred Ebb (w) and John Kander (m) A CHORUS LINE, Edward Kleban (w) and Marvin Hamlisch (m) CITY OF ANGELS, David Zippel (w) and Cy Coleman (m) COMPANY, Stephen Sondheim (w&m) CRAZY FOR YOU, Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) DAMN YANKEES, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (w&m) DO I HEAR A WALTZ?, Stephen Sondheim (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) FAME, Jacques Levy (w) and Steve Margoshes (m) FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Sheldon Harnick (w) and Jerry Bock (m) FINIAN'S RAINBOW, E. Y. Harburg (w) and Burton Lane (m) FLOWER DRUM SONG, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) 42ND STREET, Al Dubin (w) [music by Harry Warren (non-Jewish)] FUNNY GIRL, Bob Merrill (w) and Jule Styne (m) A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, Stephen Sondheim (w&m) GIGI, Alan Jay Lerner (w) and Frederick Loewe (m) GODSPELL, Stephen Schwartz (w&m) THE GOODBYE GIRL, David Zippel (w) and Marvin Hamlisch (m) GUYS AND DOLLS, Frank Loesser (w&m) GYPSY, Stephen Sondheim (w) and Jule Styne (m) HELLO, DOLLY, Jerry Herman (w&m) HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, Frank Loesser (w&m) JEKYLL AND HYDE, Frank Wildhorn (m) [lyrics by Leslie Bricusse (?)] THE KING AND I, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Fred Ebb (w) and John Kander (m) LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, Jerry Herman (w&m) LADY, BE GOOD!, Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) LES MISERABLES, Alain Boublil3/Herbert Kretzmer (w) and Claude-Michel Schönberg3 (m) A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Stephen Sondheim (w&m) LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Howard Ashman (w) and Alan Menken (m) LOST IN THE STARS, Kurt Weill (m) [lyrics by Maxwell Anderson (non-Jewish)] MAME, Jerry Herman (w&m) MAN OF LA MANCHA, Joe Darion4 (w) and Mitch Leigh5 (m) MARTIN GUERRE, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (m) [lyrics also by Stephen Clark (?)] MARY POPPINS, Richard and Robert Sherman (w&m) MISS SAIGON, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (m) THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, Frank Loesser (w&m) MY FAIR LADY, Alan Jay Lerner (w) and Frederick Loewe (m) OKLAHOMA!, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) OH, KAY! Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) OF THEE I SING, Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) OLIVER!, Lionel Bart (w&m) ON YOUR TOES, Lorenz Hart (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) ON THE TOWN, Betty Comden/Adolph Green (w) and Leonard Bernstein (m) PAJAMA GAME, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (w&m) PAL JOEY, Lorenz Hart (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) PAINT YOUR WAGON, Alan Jay Lerner (w) and Frederick Loewe (m) PETER PAN, Betty Comden/Adolph Green/Carolyn Leigh6 (w) and Mark Charlap/Jule Styne (m) PIPPIN, Stephen Schwartz (w&m) PORGY AND BESS, Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) [lyrics also by Du Bose Heyward (non-Jewish)] THE PRODUCERS, Mel Brooks (w&m) PROMISES, PROMISES, Hal David (w) and Burt Bacharach (m) RENT, Jonathan Larson7 (w&m) ROSE MARIE, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Rudolph Friml8 (m) [lyrics also by Otto Harbach (?)] 1776, Sherman Edwards9 (w&m) SHOW BOAT, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Jerome Kern (m) THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) SOUTH PACIFIC, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) STATE FAIR, Oscar Hammerstein,II (w) and Richard Rodgers (m) STRIKE UP THE BAND, Ira Gershwin (w) and George Gershwin (m) SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, Stephen Sondheim (w&m) SUNSET BOULEVARD, Don Black3 (w) [lyrics also by Christopher Hampton (non-Jewish) and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (non-Jewish] SWEENEY TODD, Stephen Sondheim (w&m) SWEET CHARITY, Dorothy Fields (w) and Cy Coleman (m) THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG, Carole Bayer Sager (w) and Marvin Hamlisch (m) TITANIC, Maury Yeston (w&m) UP IN CENTRAL PARK, Dorothy Fields (w) and Sigmund Romberg (m) WEST SIDE STORY, Stephen Sondheim (w) and Leonard Bernstein (m) THE WIZARD OF OZ, E. Y. Harburg (w) and Harold Arlen (m)

Jewish Song Writers and Composers,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS George Antheil Milton Babbitt Leonard Bernstein Marc Blitzstein Ernest Bloch Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Aaron Copland Richard Danielpour1 David Diamond Paul Dukas Hanns Eisler Rudolf Friml2 George Gershwin Philip Glass Reinhold Gliére3 Louis Moreau Gottschalk4 Morton Gould Emmerich Kalman Aaron Jay Kernis Leon Kirchner Erich Korngold Fritz Kreisler5 György Ligeti Gustav Mahler Felix Mendelssohn Giacomo Meyerbeer Darius Milhaud Jacques Offenbach Shulamit Ran Steve Reich George Rochberg Sigmund Romberg Alfred Schnittke6 Arnold Schoenberg William Schuman Robert Starer Johann Strauss, Sr.7 Oscar Straus Ernest Toch Emil Waldteufel Kurt Weill POPULAR SONGWRITERS Harold Arlen Burt Bacharach Lionel Bart Alan and Marilyn Bergman Irving Berlin Leonard Bernstein Don Black8 Jerry Bock Eric Carmen9 Cy Coleman Betty Comden Hal David Neil Diamond Bob Dylan Fred Ebb Dorothy Fields Rudolf Friml2 Art Garfunkel George and Ira Gershwin Adolph Green Marvin Hamlisch Oscar Hammerstein, II E. Y. Harburg Lorenz Hart Jerry Herman James Horner10 Billy Joel Sammy Kahn John Kander Jerome Kern Carole King Burton Lane Mitch Leigh11 Alan J. Lerner Frank Loesser Frederick Loewe12 Johnny Mandel Barry Mann Melissa Manchester Barry Manilow Alan Menken Randy Newman Laura Nyro13 Richard Rodgers Sigmund Romberg Claude-Michel Schönberg14 Neil Sedaka Carly Simon Paul Simon Stephen Sondheim Charles Strouse Jule Styne Cynthia Weil Kurt Weill Victor Young15 FILM SCORE COMPOSERS Elmer Bernstein Danny Elfman Jerry Goldsmith Dave Grusin Bernard Herrmann James Horner10 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Johnny Mandel Alfred Newman Thomas Newman16 Alex North17 Michael Nyman André Previn David Raksin Leonard Rosenman Miklós Rózsa18 Lalo Schifrin Howard Shore Max Steiner Morris Stoloff Dimitri Tiomkin Franz Waxman Victor Young15

Jewish Violinists,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
SHORT LIST Leopold Auer Joshua Bell2 Mischa Elman Jascha Heifetz Joseph Joachim Fritz Kreisler4 Sir Yehudi Menuhin Nathan Milstein David Oistrakh Itzhak Perlman Gil Shaham Isaac Stern Henryk Szeryng Joseph Szigeti Henri Wieniawski Pinchas Zukerman COMPREHENSIVE LIST Joseph Achron Licco Amar Leopold Auer Yuri Bashmet1 Joshua Bell2 Adolf Brodsky Ferdinand David Mischa Elman Aldo Ferraresi3 Carl Flesch Pamela Frank Miriam Fried Vadim Gluzman Ida Haendel Emil Hauser Jascha Heifetz Gustav Hollaender Bronislaw Huberman Joseph Joachim Leonid Kogan Rudolf Kolisch Fritz Kreisler4 Gidon Kremer5 Sir Yehudi Menuhin Anne Akiko Meyers6 Nathan Milstein Shlomo Mintz Erica Morini7 Tivadar Nachez David Oistrakh Igor Oistrakh Itzhak Perlman Michael Rabin Aaron Rosand Arnold Rosé Alexander Schneider Gil Shaham Oscar Shumsky Joseph Silverstein Tossy Spivakosky Vladimir Spivakov Isaac Stern Henryk Szeryng Joseph Szigeti Henri Temianka Lionel Tertis Maxim Vengerov Henri Wieniawski Efrem Zimbalist Pinchas Zukerman Paul Zukofsky

JEWISH PIANISTS,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
Charles Alkan Vladimir Ashkenazy1 Emanuel Ax Victor Babin Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Lazar Berman Alexander Borovsky Alexander Brailowsky Yefim Bronfman John Browning Ignaz Bruell Shura Cherkassky Bella Davidovich Misha Dichter Samuil Feinberg Annie Fischer2 Leon Fleisher Claude Frank Ignaz Friedman Emil Gilels Leopold Godowsky Gary Graffman Grigory Ginsburg Mark Hambourg Clara Haskil Myra Hess Vladimir Horovitz Byron Janis Joseph Kalichstein William Kapell Julius Katchen Louis Kentner Evgeny Kissin Wanda Landowska Ruth Laredo Josef Lhévinne Rosina Lhévinne Radu Lupu3 Hephzibah Menuhin Benno Moiseiwitsch Ignaz Moscheles Murray Perahia Menahem Pressler André Previn Michael Roll Moritz Rosenthal Anton Rubinstein Artur Rubinstein András Schiff4 Artur Schnabel Peter Serkin5 Rudolf Serkin Solomon (Cutner) Mark Taimanov Carl Tausig Sigismund Thalberg Rosalyn Tureck Alexis Weissenberg Paul Wittgenstein6

Jewish Orchestra Conductors,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
SHORT LIST Vladimir Ashkenazy2 Daniel Barenboim Leonard Bernstein Antal Doráti Istvan Kertész Otto Klemperer Serge Koussevitzky James Levine Lorin Maazel7 Gustav Mahler Felix Mendelssohn Pierre Monteux Eugene Ormandy André Previn Fritz Reiner Leonard Slatkin Sir Georg Solti George Szell Bruno Walter COMPREHENSIVE LIST Maurice Abravanel Karel Ancerl1 Vladimir Ashkenazy2 Moshe Atzmon Carl Bamberger Daniel Barenboim Rudolf Barshai Sir Julius Benedict Leonard Bernstein Gary Bertini Leo Blech Artur Bodanzky Leon Botstein Semyon Bychkov3 Edouard Colonne Sergiu Comissiona Sir Michael Costa Leopold Damrosch Walter Damrosch Issay Dobroven Antal Doráti Arthur Fiedler Adam Fischer4 Ivan Fischer4 Lukas Foss Osip Gabrielovitch Vladimir Golschmann Sir George Henschel Jascha Horenstein Eliahu Inbal Harry James Mariss Jansons5 Istvan Kertész Otto Klemperer Paul Kletzki André Kostelanetz Serge Koussevitzky Josef Krips6 Emmanuel Krivine Erich Leinsdorf Hermann Levi Yoel Levi James Levine Norman Luboff Lorin Maazel7 Gustav Mahler Walter Burle Marx Felix Mendelssohn Mitch Miller Pierre Monteux Felix Mottl Eugene Ormandy André Previn Eve Queler Fritz Reiner Artur Rodzinsky Sir Landon Ronald Julius Rudel Max Rudolph Victor de Sabata8 Kurt Sanderling Gerard Schwarz Fabien Sevitzky Leonard Slatkin Sir Georg Solti William Steinberg Josef Stransky Walter Susskind George Szell Kate Tamarkin Henri Temianka Michael Tilson Thomas Alfred Wallenstein Bruno Walter Paul Whiteman David Zinman

Jewish Cellists,
Jews in Music (Jinfo)
Karl Davydov Jacqueline du Pré1 Emanuel Feuermann Bernard Greenhouse Natalia Gutman Matt Haimovitz Ofra Harnoy Steven Isserlis Mischa Maisky Gregor Piatigorsky David Popper Leonard Rose Nathaniel Rosen János Starker

Information Technology & The North American Mass Merchandisers,
Prepared by: IHLConsulting Group
"The end of WWII brought an economic boom that was a direct result of the pent-up demand for goods during the war. This demand was fed by the construction of new shopping centers in suburban areas. The old chain and catalog stores continued to hold a powerful share of the market, but the rise of the discounters was the most important marketplace development at this time. One man that took advantage of the demand was Eugene Ferkauf. Ferkauf was a Jewish WWII veteran who understood that people like to buy things cheaper, and he set out to let them do just that by founding E.J. Korvette’s. By using a membership card gimmick, he attempted to sidestep the intent of Robinson-Patman. In 1948 he founded E.J. Korvette’s (no, the name did not stand for 'Eleven Jewish Korean Veterans.' According to Ferkauf, 'I had a name picked out for the store, E.J. Korvette. ''E'' is for Eugene, my first name, and ''J'' stands for Joe Swillenberg, my associate and my pal. As for ''Korvette,' it was originally meant to be spelled with a 'C' after the Canadian marine sub-destroyer, simply because I thought the name had a euphonious ring. When it came time to register the name, we found it was illegal to use a naval class identity, so we had to change the spelling to 'K'). This company is generally cited as being the first of the discount stores that did not have a 5-and-dime root. Korvette’s was soon joined by numerous other discount stores such as Zayres, Arlans and Gibson’s. For many consumers, drawn by generally lower prices despite the low service, these large stores were exciting arrivals in the new shopping centers and suburban tracks that were appearing around all the old urban centers in the 1950s."

[Connie Chung is married to Jewish talkshow host Maury Povich.]
Connie Chung,
by John Koch, Boston Globe, June 29, 1997
Q: I was surprised to read that you're a Jewish mother.
CHUNG: Matthew had a bris, and I am very much a Jewish mother, which is not far from a Chinese mother. My favorite emotion is guilt. Both Chinese families and Jewish families have Chinese food on Sundays. I never converted, but we observe all the high holidays: By osmosis, I'm as Jewish as my husband."

Ben Bernie, 1891-1943. The Old Maestro,
btinternet.com
"Although Ben Bernie and 'all the lads' existed with prominence during the visceral part of the Jazz Age, it is Bernie's success with radio, primarily during the 30s, by which he is remembered ... He was born into a large family in New York as Bernard Anzelevitz. He showed such early brilliance at the violin, his parents encouraged him and believed one day he would be famous ... During his school days however, he seems to be more consumed with being involved with the college shows and such than his engineering pursuit. During these days, he first uses a strange word a lot to describe a feeling. Yowsah. Yowsah. 'Yowsah' is not in my desk dictionary. It is clear to be Bernie's invented word which eventually became a trademark of his radio persona. Even today the word seems oddly familiar; but more about 'yowsah' later. After Ben Bernie left school, he began as many, in the vaudeville shows travelling as far as the midwest ... His big break came when his speaking voice caught the attention of people from the ritzy Reisenweber's Restaurant. Reisenweber's was known for getting talent and that included a good MC ... Ben and 'all the lads' remained popular into 1940s, yet Ben Bernie never quite caught the swing bug. He loved cigars and when not holding a violin, he always had one. He chain smoked them and it probably didn't help any with his sudden illness which resulted in his death in 1943. Ben Bernie is a Jazz Age personality only by the technicality of having an orchestra during the period. He is more of an emergent from it, which led to his radio career."

The Emergence of Jewish Law in Postmodernist Legal Theory,
by Suzanne Last Stone, Harvard Law School

One of the Kurds’ leaders is Jewish? So they claim in Turkish newspapers, by Yigal Schleifer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 7, 2003
"In the weeks leading up to the war, the Turkish press was filled with various articles reporting, mostly with suspicion, about the Iraqi Kurds’ postwar plans. A Feb. 17 article in the respected daily newspaper Hurriyet offered an interesting take on the situation: Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, one of two political factions that control the autonomous Kurdish area of northern Iraq, is Jewish and comes from a long line of Kurdish rabbis, the article claimed ... In the article, the researcher — a history instructor named Ahmet Ucar — said Barzani’s 'Jewish roots' should lead to a different understanding of the region and its history, since the Hebrew Bible states that the Jewish 'Promised Land' stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates, an area that would include Kurdish territory in northern Iraq. A series of articles and columns in the Haber Turk newspaper, printed after the Hurriyet story ran, took things even further. 'Brothers, we should quit the stories of Mosul and Kirkuk belonging to us,' said one column, referring to two oil-rich northern Iraqi cities that some Turks believe were unfairly taken from Turkey when the Ottoman Empire was divided up after World War I. 'The real owners have started to come out. I am sure you understand who they are.' 'Turkey, don’t be asleep!' the column warned. Yona Sabar, a Kurdish Jewish professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at UCLA and author of  'The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews,' said the articles are based on an inaccurate reading of Kurdish Jewish history ... Rifat Bali, a Jewish historian in Istanbul, said the Barzani story is part of a larger theory circulating for the past few years that has particularly strong popular support in Turkey’s conservative nationalist and Islamist circles. 'Islamists here always say that Israel has a Kurdish card it wants to play — that it has good relations with the Kurds and it wants to create a Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates, and that includes the Kurdish area,' Bali said. 'It’s fueled, first of all, by the obsession that Jews are behind everything, and that they use in front of them a crypto-Jew,' Bali said. 'There is also a Turkish fear that the world is looking from the outside and trying to divide Turkey up.' Indeed, a book titled 'Israel’s Kurdish Card,' which describes the possibility of Israel expanding its borders through an alliance with the Kurds, has been sold in Turkey for the last few years."

Sigmund Freud,
by Peter Gay, Time (The Time 100)
"Although the second pillar of Freud's psychoanalytic structure, "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905), further alienated him from the mainstream of contemporary psychiatry, he soon found loyal recruits. They met weekly to hash out interesting case histories, converting themselves into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1908. Working on the frontiers of mental science, these often eccentric pioneers had their quarrels. The two best known 'defectors' were Alfred Adler and Carl Jung. Adler, a Viennese physician and socialist, developed his own psychology, which stressed the aggression with which those people lacking in some quality they desire--say, manliness--express their discontent by acting out. 'Inferiority complex,' a much abused term, is Adlerian. Freud did not regret losing Adler, but Jung was something else. Freud was aware that most of his acolytes were Jews, and he did not want to turn psychoanalysis into a 'Jewish science.'"

MEDIA: 2002 AND BEYOND. After a Rocky Year, Time to Face the Music A look at the record firms, one by one, as the industry's problems mount,
Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2002
"Because companies report in different currencies and under varying methods, these comparisons reflect estimates made in consultation with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. For foreign-owned companies -- that is, all the major distributors except Warner Music Group -- figures are based on average currency rates for the period ... How far has the value of music fallen? Look no further than the world's biggest record label, which was assembled just four years ago in a deal then worth $10.4 billion. This year, new accounting rules forced French parent Vivendi Universal to take a charge of about $3 billion to reflect the decline in the worth of its music company. Despite the hit to the bottom line, Chairman Doug Morris [Jewish?] again dominated the charts with blockbusters from every genre. Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Geffen A&M complex takes the crown as the nation's top seller of new releases ... The Lyor Cohen-led Island Def Jam machine, for its part, delivered one of the year's biggest debuts with Ashanti ... Universal Records' Mel Lewinter and Monte Lipman once again struck platinum with hip-hop stars Nelly and Big Tymers. Things were far quieter over at Jay Boberg's MCA Records ... Even in a down year for the industry, Epic Records, led by executives Dave Glew [Jewish?] and Polly Anthony, still is regarded as a hit factory ... Bertelsmann Music Group [Major labels: Arista, J, RCA] BMG rediscovered its catalog ... BMG gave observers whiplash, bringing music icon Clive Davis back as chief of a combined J Records-RCA operation, less than three years after driving him from his seat of power at its Arista label ... EMI Group [ Major labels: Capitol, Virgin] ... Now, top executives Alain Levy and David Munns have vowed that by spring EMI will break even in North America, where its record division has long been a money-loser."

The Frankfurt School of Social Research and the Pathologization of Gentile Group Allegiances, Chapter 5, from the Culture of Critique,
by Kevin MacDonald
"Chapters 2-4 reviewed several strands of theory and research by Jewish social scientists that appear to have been influenced by specifically Jewish political interests. This theme is continued in the present chapter with a review of The Authoritarian Personality. This classic work in social psychology was sponsored by the Department of Scientific Research of the American Jewish Committee (hereafter, AJCommittee) in a series entitled Studies in Prejudice. Studies in Prejudice was closely connected with the so-called Frankfort School of predominantly Jewish intellectuals associated with the Institute for Social Research originating during the Weimar period in Germany. The first generation of the Frankfurt School were all Jews by ethnic background and the Institute of Social Research itself was funded by a Jewish millionaire, Felix Weil (Wiggershaus 1994, 13). Weil's efforts as a "patron of the left" were extraordinarily successful: By the early 1930s the University of Frankfurt had became a bastion of the academic left and "the place where all the thinking of interest in the area of social theory was concentrated" (Wiggershaus 1994, 112). During this period sociology was referred to as a "Jewish science," and the Nazis came to view Frankfurt itself as a "New Jerusalem on the Franconian Jordan" (Wiggershaus 1994, 112-113). The Nazis perceived the Institute of Social Research as a communist organization and closed it within six weeks of Hitler's ascent to power because it had "encouraged activities hostile to the state" (in Wiggershaus 1994, 128). Even after the emigration of the Institute to the United States, it was widely perceived as a communist front organization with a dogmatic and biased Marxist perspective, and there was a constant balancing act to attempt not to betray the left "while simultaneously defending themselves against corresponding suspicions" (Wiggershaus 1994, 251; see also p. 255).1 Gershom Scholem, the Israeli theologian and religious historian, termed the Frankfort School a "Jewish sect," and there is good evidence for very strong Jewish identifications of many members of the school (Marcus & Tar 1986, 344). Studies in Prejudice was under the general editorship of Max Horkheimer, a director of the Institute. Horkheimer was a highly charismatic "'managerial scholar' who constantly reminded his associates of the fact that they belonged to a chosen few in whose hands the further development of 'Theory' lay" (Wiggershaus 1994, 2). Horkheimer had a strong Jewish identity that became increasingly apparent in his later writings (Marcus & Tar 1986, 6; Jay 1980). However, Horkheimer's commitment to Judaism, as evidenced by the presence of specifically Jewish religious themes, was apparent even in his writings as an adolescent and as a young adult (Maier 1984, 51). At the end of his life Horkheimer completely accepted his Jewish identification and achieved a grand synthesis between Judaism and Critical Theory (Carlebach 1978, 254-257). (Critical Theory is the name applied to the theoretical perspective of the Frankfurt School.) As an indication of his profound sense of Jewish identity, Horkheimer (1947, 161) stated that the goal of philosophy must to be vindicate Jewish history: 'The anonymous martyrs of the concentration camps are the symbols of humanity that is striving to be born. The task of philosophy is to translate what they have done into language that will be heard, even though their finite voices have been silenced by tyranny.'"

Privilege Before the Law,
By Paul Craig Roberts, VDare [Originally published in The American Conservative 2-24-03],
"How did we end up with racial quotas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act expressly forbids them? It was primarily the work of one man, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) bureaucrat named Alfred Blumrosen, now a Rutgers University law professor. Blumrosen’s thoroughgoing and illegal rewrite of the Civil Rights Act was accepted by the Supreme Court in Griggs v. Duke Power (1971) ... Neither the clear statutory language of the act and the amendments nor the act’s unambiguous legislative history could prevent Blumrosen and the Burger Court from standing the Civil Rights Act on its head. Blumrosen ignored the act and its statutory prohibition against regulatory interpretation. He bet that he could get away with rewriting the act because of the courts’ deference to the regulatory agency. Blumrosen redefined discrimination to be statistical disparity or under-utilization of blacks. If an employer’s work force contained a smaller percentage of blacks than blacks comprised of the local population, the company was discriminating. Anything that had disparate impact, such as employment tests, Blumrosen declared to be discriminatory. Having eliminated intent, he was able to shift the act’s focus from specific discrimination against individuals and initiate agency proceedings against employers even in the absence of complaints of discrimination ... Blumrosen’s rewrite of the Civil Rights Act required employers to adopt racial quotas in order to avoid federal lawsuits. Private employment and promotion quotas are held to be legal because of the fiction that they are 'voluntarily adopted' and not required by federal statute. They are required, of course, to avoid federal lawsuits. Blumrosen’s redefinition of discrimination created 'reverse discrimination.' Whites lose opportunities for racial reasons alone."

[Who's at the heart of American publishing?]
Shaping Cultural Tastes at Big Retail Chains,
New York Times, May 17, 2003
"Several publishers said they had learned not to show books with explicit content or racy covers to the buyers for the mass merchandise chains, especially Wal-Mart. 'Our reps who handle that channel might say, `Well, that cover won't get into Wal-Mart,' " and then we have to decide whether we are going to change it, if that is going to be a big channel for this book,' Jane Friedman, chief executive of the HarperCollins division of the News Corporation, said. "They have not dictated to us, but we are very smart about servicing that channel the way they would like to be serviced." Mr. Kirshbaum of AOL Time Warner's books unit said he decided to start a religious imprint because a book buyer for Wal-Mart told him that more than half its sales were Christian books. In the last two months, Crown, part of the Random House division of Bertelsmann, and Penguin, part of the British media company Pearson, both started new lines aimed at tapping the booming market for conservative books. Ms. Friedman said she had created a special sales force to sell rack-size paperbacks to the discounters, increasing sales 30 percent in two years. Michael Jacobs, senior vice president of Scholastic, said his company was investing more in books about licensed characters like its Clifford the Big Red Dog, in part because they sell well at mass merchandisers, which can also sell related toys and apparel. Film studio executives credit Wal-Mart's aggressive promotion and low prices with playing a major role in the recent shift toward DVD buying. Warren Lieberfarb, a former Warner Brothers executive who is considered the father of the DVD, said, 'Wal-Mart now comes close to spending as much on purchasing DVD's and videos as the major studios earn from all the theaters in America.'"

David Lee Roth, Hoping to Take Classic Rock to Promised Land,
By David Segal, Washington Post, May 28, 2003
"Since the dawn of distortion, men have fronted metal bands for simple reasons, like sex, drugs and the joy of wrecking hotel rooms. David Lee Roth has partaken of his share of groupies, consumed his share of drugs and trashed a whole Holiday Inn's worth of suites. But throughout his career as lead singer of Van Halen, and now as a solo artist, he's had another ambition, one a bit more esoteric and a lot less sordid. He's on a mission from God. The God of Moses, to be specific. The God -- let's just spell this out here, shall we? -- of the Jews. 'There's not a lot of Jewish action figures,' says Roth. 'Heroes for little Jewish kids are very few and far between when it comes to belligerent enthusiasm, a confrontational red-meat approach. I'm a highly literate slut. I dig only intellectual smut' ... As he explained in his autobiography, 'Crazy From the Heat,' Roth relished every decadent minute of band life, but much of his style and energy came from fury over anti-Semitism and an urge to crush Jewish stereotypes. That might surprise longtime Van Halen fans who missed the Talmudic side of Roth's tequila-Tarzan persona. But as Roth explained on the bus Tuesday night, he's never stopped celebrating the idea of Jewish identity ... 'Viva la différence, as they say in Israel,' he says, lifting his Bud toward the ceiling and cackling again. There's some madness in that laugh, and at various moments in this 15-minute interview, it's easier to figure out when the punch lines have arrived than the logical links between the setup and the joke ... Onstage, Roth is a few parts Bruce Lee, a little bit of Neil Diamond and a whole lot of porn star. He kick-spins like a cornered martial artist, leaps occasionally off the drum riser and suggestively wedges his microphone down his pants. He keeps a bottle of Jack Daniel's nearby, which he sips in dramatic gestures designed to look like heavy swigs. Most of the booze actually ends up sprinkled on fans near the lip of the stage. 'You do more for brunettes than anyone since Snow White,' Roth leers midway through the show, pointing at a woman a few rows back. She's invited to come forward, close her eyes and place her hand on Roth's fly, which she gamely does. Roth clasps her hand in place, grinds his hips a little and mentions 'little Elvis' ... Roth appreciates the gaudiness of the show, its dated crudeness, its nostalgia for teased locks and tight trousers. It's a caricature now, of course, but it's not a Jewish caricature, which for him saves it from cliche. Maybe it's not a lesson that the graybeards in the faith want to teach in Hebrew school, but if his career proves anything it's that a bar mitzvah boy can do lewd and loud as well as anyone else."

Israel's diamond dealers tremble. Diamond colossus DeBeers today launches fundamental changes to $56 billion retail market,
by Nicole Gaouette, The Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2003
"It is a modern-day fortress for an ancient business. Workers arriving at the Israel Diamond Exchange pass metal detectors, guards, a photo station for visitors, then fortified doors that read their ID and let them in one by one. Inside, 900 cameras watch as they go about their day. The Big Brother trappings are necessary. In the world's largest diamond market, 20,000 people buy, sell and appraise the fiery white stones and exchange millions of dollars every day. But the fortifications don't eliminate internal threats: the odd robbery - and now a newer, more worrisome challenge. DeBeers Consolidated Mines, the colossus of the diamond world, is making changes that will radically reshape the industry. For consumers, these shifts may lead to lower prices and better guarantees of quality. For diamantaires, as these gem dealers are known, they could end a way of life ... As the largest and most influential company in the diamond world, DeBeers carries heavy clout, and the coming changes are sweeping. As of today, DeBeers becomes a private company, the most formal symbol of a meticulously planned transformation. The firm has also declared that it will soon stop acting as self-appointed industry custodian. For more than a century, the DeBeers monopoly has allowed it to keep a steely grip on the global supply of diamonds, ensuring stable prices and the organization's enormous influence. The Johannesburg-based group has also pledged to stop buying "blood" diamonds, stones sold by gem-rich African rebels to finance war, and to certify that no DeBeers stone is battle-tainted. The industry's ultimate wholesaler of unpolished stones will soon start selling jewelry under its own brand name, putting DeBeers in competition with its own customers for the $56 billion annual retail market. In July, DeBeers will unveil changes to the exclusive group of 125 merchants permitted to buy its diamonds. In Israel, five of the 30 merchants on this list are expected to lose out. "Some people are really biting their nails," says Yuval Ben Yona, an Israeli diamond merchant who says he's not worried, as his diamonds come from other sources. Most dealers 'fight, beg, borrow, and steal,' to stay part of this select club, says Ivan Solotaroff, a US-based writer who covers the diamond industry for Modern Jeweler magazine ... For centuries, the diamond business has been a family affair, one closely linked to Europe's Jewish communities ... The diamond business has expanded in the centuries since, but it is still strongly rooted in Jewish communities and families. Grandfathers, sons, and nephews - women rarely enter the trade - often work together, and that tight-knit, tradition-bound core makes the business unique. There are no written contracts. All deals - from Beijing to Buenos Aires - are sealed with a handshake and the Hebrew words mazal ubraha or "luck and blessing." Merchants often send diamonds overseas to prospective buyers, who keep the stones they want and return those they don't. Cell phones, email, and airplanes figure large in the business, but it still has an Old World ethos. Personal connections are crucial, and everyone seems to knows everyone else - or at least their uncle or father or cousin. 'Trust is crucial, which is one reason there are so many families in the business,' explains Efraim Raviv, managing director the Israel Diamond Institute in Ramat Gan, a Tel Aviv suburb. Even DeBeers, run by the Oppenheimer family, requires enormous trust of its 125 customers, or 'sightholders.'"

Demi Moore, Kabbalah recruiter,
MSNBC, June 5, 2003
"Ashton Kutcher isn’t the only thing that Demi Moore is wrapped up in these days. Moore is so immersed in Kabbalah that a source says the comeback diva was trying to convert co-workers on the set of the upcoming 'Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.' ‘She was singing the praises of [Kabbalah] to anyone who would listen — and some who wouldn’t,' says the source. 'She was encouraging people to take classes and read up on it.' The study of an ancient form of scholarly Jewish philosophy has become all the rage among celebs, and its followers including Madonna, Roseanne, and Courtney Love."

Flaunt it, baby! What do Superman, Italian movie families and Dick Van Dyke have in common? They're all secretly Jewish, says David Herman,
Guardian (UK), June 12, 2003
"In an early episode of The Simpsons, Krusty the Clown is invited to dinner and says grace in Hebrew. 'He's talking funny talk,' says Homer. Lisa points out that Krusty is Jewish. Homer is incredulous. 'A Jewish entertainer? Get out of here!' The whole programme turns out to be a strange meditation on the history of Jewish entertainers in the US. ... The history of Jewish entertainers in America, from The Jazz Singer to The Simpsons, is examined in a major exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum. At first glance, the story looks familiar enough: the rise of Jewish entertainers from Lower East Side slums to Hollywood. Most were descended from Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century, including Harry Houdini - the son of a Hungarian rabbi - Louis B Mayer, Al Jolson, the Warner brothers and the Marx brothers. Sam Goldwyn was born Shmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Russia, and Kirk Douglas, real name Issur Danielovitch, was the son of Russian immigrants. A hundred years later, Adam Sandler's career took off with his performance of The Chanukah Song on Saturday Night Live, and today hardly a top American TV show is without a Jewish character, from Rachel in Friends to the Broflovskis in South Park, from Toby Ziegler to Grace Adler. But as the exhibition makes clear, the story of Jewish entertainers in the US is far from straightforward. Instead of the rise from rags to riches of myth, the real history is full of twists and turns, of silences and disguises. Jewish entertainers disguised themselves in many ways. Most obviously, they changed their names. David Kaminsky, Joseph Levitch and Benny Kubelsky are hardly household names. Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis and Jack Benny are. The same goes for Edward Iskowitz (Eddie Cantor), Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns) and Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G Robinson). Even a younger generation were forced to Americanise: Leonard Schneider (Lenny Bruce) and Melvin Kaminsky (Mel Brooks) broke through in the 1950s and 60s, Roseanne Barsky (Barr) later stil ... One of the most telling examples comes from 1950s TV drama. Many of its pioneers were Jewish, most famously Paddy Chayefsky. A contemporary of his, writer Ernest Kinoy, recalls how in the days of live TV, 'You'd come into Studio One, or NBC, and Philco, and you'd tell them this long story about this marvellous Italian family. And they would say, 'It's too Jewish.' Because they knew very well that it wasn't an Italian, but it was a Jewish family. Paddy Chayefsky did it a number of times. The Catered Affair is about an Irish family ... Marty, the Italian butcher ... It was because a number of the Jewish writers would come in with material, and the networks would say, 'It's too Jewish. The rest of America won't understand.' " Won't understand - or won't like? As the exhibition makes clear, anti-semitism was never far away in the attacks on Jewish Hollywood moguls in the 1920s, or in the radio broadcasts of Father Coughlin, a popular radio personality in the 1920s and 30s. In one of his most controversial broadcasts, Coughlin criticised the disproportionate media interest in Kristallnacht, insinuating undue Jewish influence at work. He went on to speculate on the strange media silence over the murder of '20 million Christians' by the Soviet communist regime: 'Why, then, was there this silence on the radio and in the press? Ask the gentlemen who control the three national radio chains; ask those who dominate the destinies of the financially inspired press - surely these Jewish gentlemen and others must have been ignorant of the facts or they would have had a symposium in those dark days.' McCarthyism later revived an older discourse linking Jews with communism, and six of the so-called Hollywood 10 (screenwriters, producers and directors held in contempt of Congress for refusing to admit or deny communist affiliation) were Jewish. Throughout the golden years of Hollywood, there were plenty of reasons for Jews to play down their Jewishness and promote their integration into the mainstream. An industry run by Jewish moguls was notoriously quick to play down its Jewishness, which never simply disappeared - how could it? - but instead took on all manner of disguises. The story was just as complicated on television. On the one hand, you had stand-up comedians like Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny and George Burns fronting their own prime-time shows through the 1950s. Perhaps the most famous example was Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, whose writers included Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart (best known now for M*A*S*H), Carl Reiner and Neil Simon. On the other hand, although these stars were Jewish, they could not be seen to be Jewish. According to Jeffrey Shandler, one of the exhibition's curators, "Until the mid-1970s, explicitly Jewish characters were seen in prime-time series only as comic foils or as occasional guests." So, for example, Carl Reiner (who won eight Emmy awards between 1956 and 67), who based The Dick Van Dyke Show on his own experiences of writing for Sid Caesar, had to take out the Jewishness. Instead of Reiner and Caesar, the show had the all-American Dick Van Dyke playing the Gentile lead, Robert Petrie. You ended up with a strange kind of cultural ventriloquism, with non-Jewish characters like Marty and Petrie created by Jewish writers who wanted to write about their own experiences but couldn't. As a result, many of the achievements of mid-20th-century American popular culture now look as if they were written in code. The films of the Marx brothers and Billy Wilder, of course. Others are less likely. Superman was created by two young Jews, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. The humorist Jules Feiffer sees Superman as 'the smart Jewish boy's American dream'. One minute the shlemiel in glasses, the next minute Superman, all-American hero. 'It wasn't Krypton that Superman really came from," writes Feiffer, 'it was the planet Minsk." Or there's Philip Roth's take on White Christmas and Easter Parade: "The two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ - the divinity that's the very heart of the Jewish rejection of Christianity - and what does Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both! Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow' ... [I]n the 1960s, things started to change. Jews became visible. In the 1960s the wigs, blackface and all-American shtick gave way to Lenny Bruce, Dustin Hoffman and Woody Allen. It was as if Clark Kent had stripped off his red and blue costume and appeared, blinking in the sunlight, with big nose, nerdy glasses and a foul but very funny mouth. A number of factors were at work. America discovered the Holocaust with the Eichmann trial and films such as The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and The Pawnbroker (1965). The Six-Day war and the Yom Kippur war changed attitudes to Israel (and to American Jews). There is the golden age of Jewish-American writing: Heller's Catch-22 (1961), Bellow's Herzog (1964), Mailer's The Armies of the Night (1968) and Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969). There was also a new generation of Jewish stand-up comedians, who were more upfront about their Jewishness: Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Tom Lehrer and Woody Allen. In an article called The Yiddishization of American Humor, published in Esquire in 1965, Wallace Markfield wrote: "The Jewish style, with its heavy reliance upon Yiddish and Yiddishisms, has emerged not only as a comic style, but as the comic style." Finally, there was a cluster of films in the late 1960s with a new generation of Jewish stars, who made no effort to conceal their Jewishness: Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. At the same time, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks made their first films. Allen's wise-cracking shlemiel and the in-your-face Jewishness of The Producers ("Flaunt it, baby! Flaunt it!") had a huge impact on the image of Jews in American culture. On Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof ran from 1964-72, and through the 1970s and 80s Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim and David Mamet created very different kinds of Jewish characters. In almost every area of entertainment, American Jews had joined the mainstream. Television, perhaps inevitably, caught on late. It wasn't until the mid- to late 1970s that Jewish characters began to appear on sitcoms: Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Alex Rieger in Taxi, Murray Klein in Archie Bunker's Place. And, above all, there was Holocaust (1978). It's not just a matter of ticking off Jewish characters or issues as they appear on prime-time TV or in major films. The point is that Jews were able to joke about being Jewish, without code or disguise... "

Arguing the World,
PBS
"From cafeterias to cocktail parties to the pages of important magazines and journals, few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and so publicly as the writers and critics known as the New York Intellectuals. Rising from America's working class they went on to wield great influence in the second half of the twentieth century. ARGUING THE WORLD is the portrait of four members of this group: Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer. It is the story of a lifelong political argument among brilliant and engaging individuals who came of age as radicals at the City College of New York during the Great Depression and then journeyed across the political spectrum. racing their rise to prominence as political and cultural critics in post-war America through magazines and journals like Partisan Review and Commentary the film charts their path through the controversies of the Cold War and Joe McCarthy's reign of terror, their clash with the tidal forces of the New Left on college campuses in the 60s, and the fights which pulled them apart in the midst of the conservative backlash hailed by Ronald Reagan's presidency in the eighties.Driven apart by their responses to these historical events, by the nineties the four found themselves at odds with one another. Irving Kristol became influential in America's resurgent conservative movement, Nathan Glazer, a forceful critic of liberal social policy, while Daniel Bell fought to defend a besieged liberalism. Until his death in 1993, Irving Howe, ever on the political margins, endured as a key voice of the radical Left ... Arguing the World, the book, will contain a much-expanded oral history of Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell and the New York Intellectuals along with an introductory essay on the making of the film. It will be published in the early summer of 2000 by the Free Press, a division of Simon a