High stakes. The headline is from The New York Jewish Week:
The Genesis Prize, touted as a “Jewish Nobel Prize” and worth $1 million, was announced Tuesday in a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that included Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Genesis Philanthropy Group founder Mikhail Fridman.
…In a phone interview from Israel on Tuesday, Sharansky told The Jewish Week that the prize was two years in the making and is intended to emphasize that people do not have to choose “between universal values and our tribal values.”…
“We consider ourselves as global citizens and see [the need to fight assimilation] as a global issue for the Jewish People,” [Genesis CEO Stan] Polovets said.
P.S. Dennis Ross, the former peace negotiator for the White House, is past and present co-chair of the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem, which also opposes assimilation. For instance, in this publication:
Develop new approaches to limit the erosive effects of assimilation and intermarriage.
And in this mandate:
and reducing obstacles that interfere with the birth of a third and fourth child in Israeli families and developing conditions that may facilitate Jewish family growth in both Israel and the Diaspora.
The Jewish family growth in Israel is specifically aimed at keeping Muslim and Christian numbers low there. Imagine a White House official with links to an organization that speaks about promoting Christian birthrate. Would he last?
Damn. I was going to nominate Phil Weiss.
“Develop new approaches to limit the erosive effects of assimilation and intermarriage.” racist!…”erosive”
great visual up at Prof Cole’s
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states from medicaid expansion could leave millions uninsured.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/06/supreme-court-set-to-take-us-health-care-in-direction-of-sub-saharan-africa-map.html
The Jewish family growth in Israel is specifically aimed
at giving birth to more children and to at least restoring the Jewish population of the world to it’s numbers prior to 1939.
And please do tell me how does more Jewish children mean less Muslim or Christian
children?
“…In a phone interview from Israel on Tuesday, Sharansky told The Jewish Week that the prize was two years in the making and is intended to emphasize that people do not have to choose ‘between universal values and our tribal values.’…
‘We consider ourselves as global citizens and see [the need to fight assimilation] as a global issue for the Jewish People,’ [Genesis CEO Stan] Polovets said.’
Oh my God how fucking precious: “We don’t have to choose between global and tribal, because we have decreed that for us global is tribal, although of course by definition and cosmic truth everyone else must choose not only because by definition tribalism isn’t global, but because we consider everyone’s tribalism but our own to be filthy racism.”
Special special special. Oh so special.
So special, they and they alone determine the very meaning of any words and concepts at any particular time and place or in any particular usage.
Now … how in the world does anyone *in* the world ever expect to have any dealings with such people in good faith or that have any meaning? People who feel that they can attach whatever meanings or exceptions to words and concepts they want, whenever they want?
Indeed, talk about removing oneself from any trace of “globalism” whatsoever: How much more tribal can you get (in addition to saying that you shouldn’t marry outside your tribe) than saying that you and you alone have the God-like right to define words and concepts differently than all the rest of the globe does?
What unbelievably stupid, cow-like, inferior species these folks must believe we all are.
That’s hilarious.