Comments on: It’s hard to campaign against intermarriage when you’re voting for Obama

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:56:53 +0000

If you would really know something about slavery and deToro, you would know (and tell us) about their efforts to free slaves. Instead you deliver your false history, blaming Jews for slavery. Some Jews may have engaged in slavery, but not moreso than their Christian neighbors. Overall, Jews opposed slavery and worked to free them. Check out the Touro Synagogue in Newport RI and see what their efforts were in freeing slaves.

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:10:47 +0000

The oldest synagogue in North America is the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Not New York, at all. Jews in North America were NOT SPANIARDS. Jews were expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. From Spain, they mograted elsewhere in Europe and to South America. With the increased Spanish influence in S. America, they moved north to the Carribean and to the British colonies.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:03:36 +0000

It's been tried before by Catherine the Great. It was called the Pale of Settlement, but you know that.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:47:15 +0000

That's an interesting idea, but we've seen how Jewish colonies behave vis-a-vis local gentile populations with the Postville Jews.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:37:53 +0000

Judaism is not for mass consumption. If proselitism cannot be employed, the only other option is tribalism with racism as de facto law. I have put aside the question of how bad jewish racism is to non-jews (though particular cases like Julio's are indeed disgusting.) For now it only matters if this particular human reserve of neurotics called judaism is producing good value to humans as a whole or has become a burden. To americans I have no doubt the jewish surplus has become a burden and nothing can be done about it. The increase of antisemitism in America is a consequence of it's decadence. Israel, on the other hand, is clearly an aberration which must cease to exist. It exposes what judaism is all about and nobody really wants to spend all the time watching the ultimate jewish method for disintegrating unarmed innocents. My suggestion, as always, is the formalization of Judonia and the creation of oficial colonies in several countries. I think jews are very useful for humanity, but they must not possess (or do research on) weapons nor be part of government. They must interact with humanity, but never disguise as a common citizen. I'm not against judonians being judonians, but I'm against judonians being allowed to pretend to be good citizens who happen to have two minds: one of a citizen, one of an enemy. Let them wear priestly robes and priestly bearings if them will, but never again let them use the innocense of the common citizen as springboard whom pretending to care about human rights considers only their own continuity a value above all others.

By: pineywoodslim

pineywoodslim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:14:02 +0000

Yes, I think that's the way Jews will ultimately survive in American culture. By adaptation.

By: pineywoodslim

pineywoodslim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:10:57 +0000

In certain parts of the South–particularly the Delta (the section of the state of Mississippi between Memphis and Vicksburg)–Jews were entirely welcomed into the white, planter aristocracy of country clubs and balls–Greenville, Mississippi comes to mind. That was the Mississippi of Hodding Carter, Walker Percy, and Willie Morris. Basically you were either black or white–those were the ethnicities, and Jews were white.

By: Broadsnark

Broadsnark — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:00 +0000

I agree that it isn't young v. old. My father was born in 1929 and didn't subscribe to exclusivity, nor did he "return to his roots." I think the difference lies in how much a community feels it needs to defend itself. My father lived through WWII, but wasn't personally devastated by it. Young american jews are further away from holocausts and pogroms than ever. It is a lot more difficult to reconcile the contradictions when those emotions aren't so high.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:29:08 +0000

You're still laughing?

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:26:43 +0000

Not to be forgotten, Aaron Lopez (born Duarte Lopez; 1731–1782), one of the largest slave traders of Newport,RI. With the family names of Lopez, Levy, Rivera, Seixas, deToro (Touro), Gomez and Hays, these men and women represented the merging of old and new worlds through the tradition and culture of colonial Sephardic Jewry. ..Within twenty years, Lopez owned or had interests in over 80 sailing vessels. Lopez was also one of the original founders and contributors of Touro Synagogue and by the end of his life was recognized as one of the "Merchant Princes" of early America. His merchant trading interests included rum, molasses, dry goods and African slaves.