Payton Gendron’s Anti-Semitism

Posted on May 22, 2022 by jewamongyou

Payton Gendron, who murdered several people in Buffalo recently, wrote a manifesto prior to his crime. I posted about it a few days ago, and wanted to follow up.

Several pages of the manifesto are dedicated to “The Jews.” It looks like virtually all of this material was copied and pasted from neo-Nazi sources – and without much scrutiny or research.

Today, I’ll focus on his collection of anti-gentile statements, quoted from Jewish sources. It’s in the section called “The Jewish Religion” (pgs. 26-29) Here’s an excerpt:

Rabbinic Judaism. Here’s some quotes from the Talmud and other Jewish works that you may enjoy:


Moed Kattan 17a: “If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.”
Erubin 21b: “Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.”
Sanhedrin 59a: “A goy (gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death.”
Sanhedrin 58b: “If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.”
Sanhedrin 57a: “A Jew need not pay a gentile (“Cuthean”) the wages owed him for work.”Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal”
Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a God about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
Yebhamoth 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.”
Schanouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
Choschen Hamm 388, 15: “If it can be proven that someone has given money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.”
Choschen Hamm 266, 1: “A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum
(Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people.”
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.”
Baba Necia 114, 6: “The Jews are human beings but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”
Simeon Haddarsen, fol, 56-D: “When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”

Firstly, I’ll point out that many of the names of these sources are so garbled, it’s hard to figure out which work he’s referring to; the list was probably shared so many times, like a game of “telephone,” that numerous errors were inevitable.

Secondly, some of these sources are extremely obscure, and of little importance to observant Jews. I’ve never heard of “Libbre David,” “Schanouth Hag” or “Choschen Ham.” Most observant Jews are probably also unfamiliar with these works.

Thirdly, the ancient Jewish sages also said horrible things about fellow Jews – specifically, ‘ame ha’araS, “the ignorant masses” (literally “people of the Earth”). The fact of the matter is that those sages loved to engage in Oriental hyperbole. When it comes to “Agaddah” (folklore, and opinions about current events), very little of what they said should be taken literally.

Fourthly, the Jewish sages also said good things about righteous gentiles. How could they not? Ruth, an ancestress of King David was one, and so was Job. The sages said that the greatest prophet of all time was not Moses, but Bil’am – a gentile. One of the Roman emperors, Alexander Severus, was friendly toward the Jews, as was Alexander the Great. Both were spoken of in glowing terms by the sages. The authoritative Aramaic translation of the Torah was written by a Greek, Onkelos, who converted. The sages tell us of gentile kings who would bring sacrifices to the Temple, and this was considered a normal occurrence. Obviously, those gentiles were not looked upon with scorn, or considered non-human.

Fifthly, the body of Rabbinic Jewish literature, from which neo-Nazis harvest such quotes, spans about 1500 years. During those centuries, there were good times and bad. Sometimes, Jews were persecuted by surrounding gentiles, and it’s understandable that negative things would be said about those gentiles…

… and if we’re going to judge those Jewish sages harshly for doing so, then we should use the same standard against contemporary neo-Nazis as well. We can scour 4Chan, The Daily Stormer etc. and find many juicy statements about blacks, Jews and various non-white races. We would have to conclude that such people should be shunned on this basis.

“But they’re MURDERING US, and RAPING US, and PERSECUTING US!!” Exactly – and this is why we shouldn’t judge anybody too harshly for speaking badly about other ethnicities that cause them grief.

Jews were, and are, an especially literate people. We’ve been writing about ourselves, and those around us, since long before the ancestors of most Europeans were writing. If the Vikings (for example) had kept written records for the same period of time, and were just as prolific as the Jews, I’m sure we would find many unflattering statements from them. Why don’t those neo-Nazis scour the ancient literature of the Greeks or Romans for objectionable content? I’m pretty sure that both wrote nasty things about the barbarians – whom they often massacred, conquered, and enslaved. Why not target the Chinese as well?

Those who try to link the anti-gentile statements of the Jewish sages to modern Jewish anti-white activities are ignoring one crucial fact: Orthodox Jews are far less anti-white than secular Jews. The occasional incendiary anti-gentile rabbinical statement notwithstanding, as a whole, Orthodox Jews are conservative and pro-Western (and I’m sure there are exceptions). I don’t have statistics, but it’s clear to me that most of them oppose Critical Race Theory, and most other anti-white propaganda and policies. Secular Jews, in contrast, have abandoned traditional Judaism, and largely replaced it with Cultural Marxism.

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Buffalo Mass Shooting Caused by Covid Lock-Down and Leftist Censorship

Posted on May 18, 2022 by jewamongyou

Yes, I once stated that we shouldn’t read manifestos made famous through violence, but I went ahead and read Payton Gendron’s manifesto anyway. You can find it here.

The main reason I did so was confirm (or debunk) Corporate Media claims regarding the recent Buffalo massacre. Indeed, in my last post, I assumed that media claims of him being a right-wing white-supremacist were correct.

It turns out this is the case. He does describe himself as a “white-supremacist,” and (at least in racial and social matters) he definitely is right-wing – though he describes himself as neither right-wing nor left-wing. Economically, he seems to lean more to the left.

On page 13, he writes this:

Was there a particular event or reason you decided to commit to a violent attack?


Before I begin I will say that I was not born racist nor grew up to be racist. I simply became racist after I learned the truth.


I started browsing 4chan in May 2020 after extreme boredom, remember this was during the outbreak of covid. I would normally browse /k/ because I’m a gun nut and /out/ because I love the outdoors and I eventually wound up on /pol/. There I learned through infographics, shitposts, and memes that the White race is dying out, that blacks are disproportionately killing Whites, that the average black takes $700,000 from tax-payers in their lifetime, and that the Jews and the elite were behind this. From there, I also found other sites, like worldtruthvideos.website, dailyarchives.org, and dailystormer.cn where through data and exposure to real information I learned the truth.

The “extreme boredom” was brought about through Covid lock downs, which the Establishment Left demanded, and imposed upon us. The lock down boredom led him to spend more time online.

He “learned the truth” through sites like 4chan and thedailystormer. In hindsight, it would have been preferable if he’d learned the truth through amren, VDare or Taki’s Magazine…

… but such sites are hidden by Google, banned from social media, and censored at every turn. Through he doesn’t specify how old he was when he “learned the truth,” it was probably in his mid teens, as he’s only 18 now. His immature mind latched onto whatever it found first; there is no mention of Amren, VDare, or any other moderate pro-white source, anywhere in the manifesto. Lacking any mature guidance, he became radicalized.

Payton is quite intelligent, and some parts of the manifesto are well-written, especially for an 18 year old. Other parts are half-baked and simplistic; some statements seem to have been made without much thought. For example (pg. 8):

By living in the United States, weren’t you an immigrant yourself?


Yes, and it seems we immigrants seem to bring a whole host of issues. Although the land technically belongs to its native people, The United States now belongs to Whites because removing Whites from all of the United States is impossible. They are simply rooted too deeply into the land. The same thing applies with other White countries that are not in Europe.

It doesn’t seem to occur to him that blacks are also “impossible to remove from the land,” and are “deeply rooted” into the land.

Given the right resources and guidance, Payton might have become a great thinker and writer. Now he’ll spend the rest of his days in prison.

Incidentally, I noticed some businesses flying their flags at half-mast today. I couldn’t help wondering if they did the same after the Waukesha massacre.

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Congratulations to Countenance

Posted on May 14, 2022 by jewamongyou

Just over a year ago, I posted a poll, the post is called “A Most Morbid Poll.” The question was:

What Form Will the Next Right-Wing Attack Take?

  • A Mass Shooting
  • A Bomb
  • Attack by Vehicle
  • A Stabbing
  • Gas Attack or Poisoning

Six people voted for the mass shooting, and Countenance commented:

Mass shooting, because:

(1) The pattern of recent history

(2) So many of our people, both sane and insane, are adept at firearms

(3) Mass shootings get media attention, which is what those who are seriously considering doing something unhinged both realize and desire

It’s a testimony to the patience of white people that it took so long for the Establishment Left’s efforts to bear fruit. In the interim, there have been several black-on-white racial attacks with multiple victims, and countless “random” attacks on individuals. Each time, the Corporate Media ignored the racial angle of these attacks, and ceased reporting on them after a short time.

Now that the roles are reversed, and it’s a white man killing black people, it will be front-page news for a very long time. Of course, this crime will also be exploited by the Establishment Left. There will be new crackdowns on our freedoms, new calls for the destruction of Confederate monuments, and new cries for CRT indoctrination of our children.

The folks at CNN, the New York Times, the Huffington Post and the Oval Office are now delighted. This is exactly what they wanted, and it’s exactly what they’ve been working for. Democrats in Congress are drinking champagne, celebrating their increased chances for re-election. Al Sharpton, and his ilk, are orgasmic with the prospect of more money flowing into their coffers.

As for me, I’ll go ahead and close the poll.

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This is Why They Hate “The Jews” #5

Posted on May 13, 2022 by jewamongyou

Until recently, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, wasn’t on my radar…

… and then I saw this video:

Who is this “Latino” who left communist Cuba to impose communism upon the United States?

From Wikipedia:

His father, Charles R. “Nicky” Mayorkas, was born in Cuba. He was a Cuban Jew of Sephardi (from the former Ottoman Empire, present-day Turkey and Greece) and Ashkenazi (from Poland) background. He owned and operated a steel wool factory on the outskirts of Havana. Nicky Mayorkas studied economics at Dartmouth College.

His mother, Anita (Gabor), was a Romanian Jew whose family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Cuba in the 1940s. The Cuban Revolution marked the second time his mother would be forced to flee a country she considered home

But of course, a Jew from Cuba is now in charge of the Ministry of Truth; he came here, as a suckling, to defecate on our First-Amendment rights.

This is not an isolated incident. Under Mayorkas’ watch, the DHS has granted $232,720.00 of our tax money to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:

This project proposes a train-the-trainer professional development program for Volusia county’s secondary school educators to co-opt pedagogical tools and methods that challenge online violence mobilization narratives, increase awareness of violent extremist messaging and recruiting, and increase the capabilities of targeted populations to resist and counter messaging. Participants of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s train-the-trainer seminars will identify problematic online and media messages that could lead to radicalization to violent extremism, critically evaluate the problematic assumptions, data, or logic of those messages, and develop pedagogical strategies for teaching their own students to recognize and critically evaluate those messages. This applicant fulfills the grant program priority to achieve diversity of project type.

True to Biden’s vision of a Black America, Mayorkas has also generously granted another $400,000 of OUR MONEY to somehow combat extremism by promoting black music (ibid.):

Music in Common
Youth Resilience Programs
$400,000.00
Music in Common’s Black Legacy Project aims to prevent targeted violence and terrorism by promoting social cohesion and integration through meaningful dialogue and sustained partnership between Americans across religious, cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds and identities. The Black Legacy Project is an innovative musical collaboration that strengthens resistance to violent extremism by fusing music, multimedia, conflict transformation, and person to person dialogue and collaboration to foster a multi-generational exchange of perspectives. Throughout the project, participants will reimagine songs central to and centered around the Black American experience, write new songs that speak to modern day issues connected to racism, conduct live release events to share collaborative songs with the public, and hold virtual roundtables to discuss the impact of the program. This applicant fulfills the grant program priority to implement innovative solutions to preventing targeted violence and terrorism and to achieve diversity of applicants in the arts and entertainment sector.

Similarly, we shouldn’t be surprised to discover that Mayorkas is tight with his homie, Al Sharpton – who is an infamous bigot:

On April 8, 2022, Secretary Mayorkas delivered the following remarks to the National Action Network’s annual convention: 

Thank you very much, Dr. Richardson, for the very kind introduction, and good morning. I’m very honored and pleased to be here with you to share a few thoughts.  

I had the pleasure of speaking with Reverend Sharpton this morning, who, of course, is there to celebrate a momentous day in our nation’s history. And I shared with him that – I’m sorry, I will not be there myself – but I’ll be here speaking with all of you and certainly with him, and our country in spirit as we recognize a long overdue milestone.  

Mayorkas loves to pontificate on hate and racism, fancying himself a crusader of tolerance – but his admiration of Sharpton lays bear his hypocrisy. From Govtrack:

Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton

Whereas the Congress strongly rejects the racist and incendiary actions of the Reverend Al Sharpton;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘bloodsucking [J]ews’, and ‘Jew bastards’;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘white interlopers’ and ‘diamond merchants’;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen year-old black girl;

Whereas, to this day, the Reverend Al Sharpton has refused to accept responsibility and expresses no regret for defaming Mr. Pagones;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton’s vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton’s fierce demagoguery incited violence, riots, and murder in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following the accidental death of a black pedestrian child hit by the motorcade of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Schneerson;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, ‘The White Man is the Devil’;

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has insulted members of the Jewish faith by challenging Jews to violence and stating to Jews to ‘pin down’ their yarmulkes; and

Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has practiced the politics of racial division and made inflammatory remarks against whites by characterizing the death of Amadou Diallo as a ‘racially motivated police ‘assassination

We can only conclude that Alejandro Mayorkas is not “anti-racist” in any conventional sense of the term. Rather, he is anti-white and anti-America.

Congratulations, Mr. Mayorkas, for being the first Sephardic Jew to join the ranks of the vile parasites featured in the “This is Why They Hate The Jews” series. Now we have Diversity.

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Adrienne Westenfeld’s Perverse Take on “Most-Banned” Books

Posted on May 7, 2022 by jewamongyou

In an Esquire article, titled The 10 Most-Banned Books in America, Adrienne Westenfeld provides a perfect example of how the Left, specifically the “Woke Left,” turns reality on its head, and then presents it as truth to the gullible masses. The article was featured in Digg:

The 10 Most-Banned Books in America

The culture war has found a new frontline—and it’s coming to a school library near you.

In 2021, attempts to ban books in the United States surged to their highest level since the American Library Association began tracking book challenges over two decades ago. We owe it all to right-wing agitators who’ve taken up book banning as the latest cudgel in their war to suppress inclusive conversations about race, gender, and sexuality. From Senator Ted Cruz crying about racist babies in a congressional hearing to the more insidious efforts of grassroots groups challenging books in their school libraries, the frenzy highlights a long history of conservative censorship in the United States, with some troubling new tricks. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott instructed state agencies to block books with “overtly sexual” content (many saw this as coded language for targeting books containing LGBTQ material); meanwhile, in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law requiring elementary schools to post searchable library databases, clearing the way for books to be targeted and removed. In an alarming dispatch from Wyoming, a prosecutor considered criminal charges against public librarians who stocked books with LGBTQ themes.

“The 729 challenges tracked by ALA represent the highest number of attempted book bans since we began compiling these lists 20 years ago,” ALA president Patty Wong wrote in a statement. “We support individual parents’ choices concerning their child’s reading and believe that parents should not have those choices dictated by others. Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives. So, despite this organized effort to ban books, libraries remain ready to do what we always have: make knowledge and ideas available so people are free to choose what to read.”

If you’re among the 87% of Americans who reject banning books, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled a list of the ten most-challenged books of 2021, along with the supposed rationale behind the controversies they’ve sparked. Share these books with the young people in your life, or enjoy them on your own—each one is a moving paean to self-knowledge, inclusivity, and the strength we find in embracing difference, both in ourselves and others. So go ahead and get reading. It’ll make Ted Cruz’s day.

The article goes on to list ten books that focus on either sexual perversions or non-white ethnicities. Most of the books were excluded from school libraries due to sexual content, but one was excluded for anti-police sentiment.

Each heading includes a link where one can buy the book on Amazon. It never seems to occur to the author that books that are truly banned cannot be purchased on Amazon; they’ve been BANNED from Amazon.

The books of Jared Taylor are, in reality, among the “most banned” books, because no school would even consider including them in its library in the first place. Additionally, they CANNOT be purchased at Amazon.

By any definition, White Identity is more banned than Gender Queer. White Identity is not only banned by Amazon, and cannot be found in any school library, but even Google has cleansed it from its search results. Hence, the article is a lie from beginning to end.

The title should be:

10 Woke Books That Were Banned from Schools in Some States

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Harassed for Being Straight in Portland

Posted on May 6, 2022 by jewamongyou

This is from Nextdoor.com:

Five oaks middle school has been hell for my daughter.. who else has had a hard time with the school? With no judgment or anything please I’ll explain.

1st she was being harassed buy a student who identifies as a they because of my daughter being straight and not in love with them as they were with my daughter the school wouldn’t do anything about it due to the high profile situation it was. we had to threaten the superintendent that we would go to the news for them to do anything.

2nd then she has been bullied and they have not even done anything to stop it

3rd they talk to her everytime there is a situation when we tell them not to and don’t inform us of it when we call and they know what’s going on.

4th they searched her yesterday without calling and asking and not only that she was searched by a male into me I was always tried growing up never allow a man to search you always ask for a female on top of making sure your parents know what is going on before doing so

I am at a loss for words any advice help anything would be great

Yes it’s come to this. Children in the Portland area are being harassed for being straight.

In other news, I was stopped at an intersection today, and somebody (looked like a Mexican) decided to do several donuts, using an old beat up car, right there in the intersection in front of everybody. People looked on helplessly as this exhibition of lawlessness was rubbed in our collective faces in broad daylight. I’m not sure what any of us could possibly have done, and I’m fairly certain that there was no license plate; the car was probably stolen.

I also spoke to a man who works security at one of Portland’s hotels. He tells me that they have a lot of problems from vagrants, and that the police will do nothing, even if laws have clearly been broken. Sometimes, the private security team will beat up the offenders, because otherwise, no justice will be done. The police, unofficially, approve of vigilante justice.

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Portland’s Homeless Camps Turning into Shanty Towns

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jewamongyou

I may have already mentioned that the Portland area has gotten noticeably worse, regarding the homeless situation and graffiti, since before I left it several months ago.

From a recent KATU article:

With current hurdles including growing homeless camps, record high gun violence, and challenges with sanitation, KATU’s Angelica Thornton asked Wheeler how he would respond to those who say Portland’s city leadership is not solving the problems at hand.

“We are making progress, but I understand from the public’s perspective while it, why it feels so dislocating, Portland is a beautiful city. Portland is a city that functions well, that over the last two years it’s been stress tested. And frankly, a lot of the services that we provide have not been up to par during this pandemic,” Wheeler said.

No Mayor Wheeler, you’re not “making progress” at all. Here are some shots I took of a homeless camp not far from the airport:

I’ve also seen RVs parked on the sides of roads, near fields, and with (apparently) fully functional cars and even motorcycles. In other words, the city seems to have abandoned any serious efforts to enforce codes.

As these shanty towns grow, and these settlements become ever more established, several questions come to mind:

  1. How will we address the increased fire hazard, and who will be held accountable when the inevitable deaths occur due to fires?
  2. How will we protect ourselves from outbreaks of communicable, and pathogen-borne, disease as they spread from these unsanitary settlements?
  3. After people have lived in these structures for so many years, will they gain official status as squatters? What legal challenges will arise when the city finally decides to demolish these homes after a decade or more?
  4. How will the public be protected from dangerous fumes that might emanate from these settlements? If they’re cooking meth in them, we could all be in danger.

How bad is the homeless problem in Portland right now? I recently met a young woman who felt it necessary to order a ride-share for a three-block journey in downtown Portland in the middle of the day. She was too afraid to walk because she’d been harassed in the past. That’s right. People are afraid to walk three blocks in downtown Portland in the middle of the day.

What about at night? I did find myself driving through a section of downtown Portland a couple of nights ago. It was only about 8:30. Night had barely fallen – and yet I had to swerve, several times, to avoid hitting psychotics milling about in the middle of the main street. Dressed in rags, and ranting to their personal demons, the scene looked like it was lifted out of a post-apocalyptic zombie movie.

This is what the collapse of a civilization looks like.

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American Sentenced to Death in China for Murder of Woman

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jewamongyou

An Associated Press article informs us that a Chinese mudshark, bypassing millions of eligible Chinese men of her own age, instead chose an American black man who was twice her age. From the article:

BEIJING (AP) — An American man has been sentenced to death in China for fatally stabbing a 21-year-old woman who tried to break off their relationship.

Shadeed Abdulmateen was sentenced Thursday after a trial in the Intermediate People’s Court of Ningbo, a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Abdulmateen met the victim, identified only by her surname, Chen, in 2019 and entered into a romantic relationship with her. When she attempted to break off relations, Abdulmateen arranged to meet her at a bus stop in Ningbo, then stabbed her to death on the night of June 14, 2021 with a folding knife he had brought with the intention of killing her, Xinhua said.

The trial was attended by more than 20 people, including government officials and members of the public. Xinhua said the court ruled that the facts surrounding Chen’s murder were “especially heinous and resulted in serious consequences.”

It said Abdulmateen had been provided with a defense, translation services and consular visits, but gave no details on his hometown or how he came to reside in China.

The suspect’s name, and the fact that the article includes no photo of him, leave little doubt as to his race. Other sites do provide a photo. This one is from Newsweek:

Hopefully, the Chinese press is less restricted when it comes to reporting black crimes against women.

We can probably count on the Biden administration intervening in order to save Abdulmateen’s life. Ideally, the Chinese will execute him before this happens.

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I’ll be Posting Less Frequently

Posted on April 15, 2022 by jewamongyou

Dear readers,

As some of y’all already know, I’m back in the States. This means I’ve left the tropical life of leisure behind me for the time being. There are a lot of things taking up my time, all of them positive. Things are going well for me, thank God – but I won’t be posting much for the next few months.

In the meantime, feel free to explore some of the links on the right of the main page.

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Visiting a Deformed Jewish Temple

Posted on April 9, 2022 by jewamongyou

If any of y’all were missing me the last few days, know that it was for good reason: I was traveling back to Oregon, and stopping to visit family on the way. I had a splendid time, and no inclination to perform my online duties.

On one of my stops, I joined a relative as he volunteered for a food drive. We spent some time at a Deformed Jewish Temple (sometimes known as “Reformed”). A few decades ago, some progressive Jews decided that Judaism needed to be reformed, so that it could be more inline with modern practices and sensibilities. The result was a watered-down version of Judaism where congregations bore more of a resemblance to social clubs than places of worship, where the rabbis (often women) were sometimes atheists, and where the conversion of gentiles was little more than a formality. The backlash became known as Conservative Judaism.

As you may have guessed by now, I have little fondness for Deformed Judaism; it’s simply a form of Progressivism/Leftism with a mild Jewish flavor. However, I’ll give credit where credit is due. The congregants were generous, and we ended up with several crates of kosher food for the less-fortunate.

Every single one of the donors was a single older woman. Not one man was to be found, and not one young person – but there were plenty of dogs. I asked one lady if their congregation did bar-mitzvahs for dogs (“bark-mitzvahs”), and she replied that they do not. They do have events where the rabbi blesses pets.

The congregation is dying. The men have all left, and the congregants either did not produce any children to carry on, or their children have no interest in carrying on. Why should they? There are plenty of other, more attractive, venues to practice Leftism. Perhaps the dogs, if trained properly, can breath new life into Deformed Judaism. It would be ironic; they are, after all, Canine-ites.

In contrast, the Orthodox congregations have plenty of children, and their congregations seem to be thriving in that area.

Back in the Portland area, I’m pleased to see that prices haven’t risen to the levels I feared. Hunger doesn’t appear to be imminent. The homeless problem seems to have gotten worse since I left, and so has the graffiti.

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