Category Archives: Judaism & Jews

'Job: Jewish Individualist'

Judaism & Jews, Religion

I got thinking about the Book of Job after La Coulter made fun of Howard Dean for choosing Job as his favorite “New Testament reading.” Dean is an unsharpened pencil, for sure, but he is right about Job. It’s unrivaled—easily the best book in the Bible…

Job challenged the ultimate authority, not because he was rebellious, but because he was righteous and true to himself…

Contemporary parallels to Job’s individualism are hard to come by, not least because the State has replaced God as the ultimate authority. Other than principled libertarians, nobody challenges the god of government in any meaningful way. Our Delphic oracles are the pundits and assorted self-styled presstitutes. Their Delphi is the TV on which they primp, preen and parrot party falsehoods. They can strike a pose but they can’t oppose …”

Here is the complete new WND.com column, “Job: Jewish Individualist.”

‘Job: Jewish Individualist’

Judaism & Jews, Religion

I got thinking about the Book of Job after La Coulter made fun of Howard Dean for choosing Job as his favorite “New Testament reading.” Dean is an unsharpened pencil, for sure, but he is right about Job. It’s unrivaled—easily the best book in the Bible…

Job challenged the ultimate authority, not because he was rebellious, but because he was righteous and true to himself…

Contemporary parallels to Job’s individualism are hard to come by, not least because the State has replaced God as the ultimate authority. Other than principled libertarians, nobody challenges the god of government in any meaningful way. Our Delphic oracles are the pundits and assorted self-styled presstitutes. Their Delphi is the TV on which they primp, preen and parrot party falsehoods. They can strike a pose but they can’t oppose …”

Here is the complete new WND.com column, “Job: Jewish Individualist.”

Letter of the Week: Muhammedan Vs. Mosaic Achievement

History, Human Accomplishment, Islam, Judaism & Jews

BAB reader Linda has forwarded these self-explanatory facts (she credits a friend for collating the data). The information about Jewish accomplishment has been gleaned from the Jewish Virtual Library. As Charles Murray has written, “Until the end of the 18C throughout Europe, and well into the 19C in most parts of Europe, Jews lived under a regime of legally restricted rights and socially sanctioned discrimination as severe as that borne by any population not held in chattel slavery.” Remember that when you make excuses for Muslims:

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
* 1988 – Najib Mahfooz.

Peace
* 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
* 1994 – Yaser Arafat

Physics
* 1990 – Elias James Corey
* 1999 – Ahmed Zewail

Medicine
* 1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
* 1998 – Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature
* 1910 – Paul Heyse
* 1927 – Henri Bergson
* 1958 – Boris Pasternak
* 1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
* 1966 – Nelly Sachs
* 1976 – Saul Bellow
* 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
* 1981 – Elias Canetti
* 1987 – Joseph Brodsky
* 1991 – Nadine Gordimer
* 2001 – Imre Kertesz
* 2005 – Harold Pinter

World Peace
* 1911 – Alfred Fried
* 1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
* 1968 – Rene Cassin
* 1973 – Henry Kissinger
* 1978 – Menachem Begin
* 1986 – Elie Wiesel
* 1994 – Shimon Peres
* 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
* 1995 – Joseph Rotblat

Chemistry
* 1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
* 1906 – Henri Moissan
* 1910 – Otto Wallach
* 1915 – Richard Willstaetter
* 1918 – Fritz Haber
* 1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
* 1961 – Melvin Calvin
* 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
* 1972 – William Howard Stein
* 1977 – Ilya Prigogine
* 1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
* 1980 – Paul Berg
* 1980 – Walter Gilbert
* 1981 – Roald Hoffmann
* 1982 – Aaron Klug
* 1985 – Herbert Hauptman
* 1985 – Jerome Karle
* 1989 – Sidney Altman
* 1992 – Rudolph Marcus
* 2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, and Irwin Rose

Economics
* 1970 – Paul Samuelson
* 1971 – Simon Kuznets
* 1972 – Kenneth Arrow
* 1973 – Wassily Leontief
* 1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
* 1976 – Milton Friedman
* 1978 – Herbert A. Simon
* 1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
* 1985 – Franco Modigliani
* 1987 – Robert M.. Solow
* 1990 – Harry Markowitz
* 1990 – Merton Miller
* 1992 – Gary Becker
* 1993 – Robert Fogel
* 1994 – John Harsanyi
* 1997 – Myron Scholes
* 2001 – Joseph Stiglitz
* 2001 – George A.. Akerlof
* 2002 – Daniel Kahneman
* 2005 – Robert Aumann

Medicine
* 1908 – Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich
* 1914 – Robert Barany
* 1922 – Otto Meyerhof
* 1930 – Karl Landsteiner
* 1931 – Otto Warburg
* 1936 – Otto Loewi
* 1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
* 1944 – Joseph Erlanger
* 1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
* 1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
* 1947 – Gerty Cori
* 1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
* 1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
* 1953 – Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
* 1958 – Joshua Lederberg
* 1959 – Arthur Kornberg
* 1964 – Konrad Bloch
* 1965 – Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff
* 1967 – George Wald
* 1968 – Marshall Nirenberg
* 1969 – Salvador Luria
* 1970 – Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
* 1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
* 1975 – David Baltimore & Howard Temin
* 1976 – Baruch Blumberg
* 1977 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally
* 1978 – Daniel Nathans
* 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
* 1984 – Cesar Milstein
* 1985 – Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein
* 1986 – Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
* 1988 – Gertrude Elion
* 1989 – Harold Varmus
* 1994 – Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
* 1997- Stanley B.. Prusiner
* 1998 – Robert Furchgott
* 2000 – Paul Greengard
* 2002 – H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner

Physics
* 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
* 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
* 1921 – Albert Einstein
* 1922 – Niels Bohr
* 1925 – James Franck & Gustav Hertz
* 1943 – Otto Stern
* 1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
* 1945 – Wolfgang Pauli
* 1952 – Felix Bloch
* 1954 – Max Born
* 1958 – Igor Tamm & Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank
* 1959 – Emilio Segrè
* 1960 – Donald A.. Glaser
* 1961 – Robert Hofstadter
* 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
* 1963 – Eugene Wigner
* 1965 – Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger
* 1967 – Hans Bethe
* 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
* 1971 – Dennis Gabor
* 1972 – Leon Cooper
* 1973 – Brian David Josephson
* 1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
* 1976 – Burton Richter
* 1978 – Arno Allan Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa
* 1979 – Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow
* 1988 – Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger
* 1990 – Jerome Friedman
* 1992- Georges Charpak
* 1995 – Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines
* 1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee
* 1997 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
* 2000 – Zhores I.. Alferov
* 2003 – Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov
* 2004 – H. David Politzer & David Gross

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and demanding revenge. The Jews are not promoting the brain washing of children in military training camps; teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. The Jews don’t have the economic strength of petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world’s media to see “their side” of the conflict.

Perhaps if the world’s Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

 

Mel's 'Malady,' Foxman's Fetish

Anti-Semitism, Free Speech, Hollywood, Judaism & Jews, Media

[Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League] “had more to say about Gibson than he had about Seattle’s jihadist du jour, Naveed Afzal Haq. Last week, Haq murdered a Jewish woman and critically injured five other women at the downtown Jewish Federation building…
As a representative of the Jewish community, albeit self-appointed, Foxman needs lessons in etiquette. It’s bad form to coerce or manipulate people into liking, hiring, renting, or apologizing to you. So long as haters keep their mitts to themselves, insulted parties should, if anything, rise above the fray, act gracious—even turn the other cheek. Subjecting people who don’t like you to reeducation programs smacks of busybody social engineering. Gibson may be uncouth, but Foxman is equally grubby…”

The complete column, “Mel’s ‘Malady,’ Foxman’s Fetish,” is here. In it, I also take a good long swipe at the “The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency,” vis-Ã -vis Mel Gibson’s so-called disease.