Orthodox Reflections

I dated a Jewish girl for a couple months at the beginning of my sophomore year in college. I was raised Evangelical, but in college I rarely attended church or even thought much about religion. I didn’t have any “anti-Jewish” prejudice. I had been raised in a Christian Zionist denomination. Prior to going to a very big university from my very, very small town, I had scarcely met any Jews in real life. My girlfriend seemed no more interested in her religion than I was in mine, and she didn’t seem to hold any prejudice against “gentiles”.  Our relationship seemed to be going really well, actually. Until it was time for her parents to come for a visit.

She met me for coffee on the Thursday before their arrival to explain the situation to me. Her parents weren’t particularly religious, but they desperately wanted her to marry a “Nice Jewish Boy”.  They would not take kindly to her dating a non-Jew. Her parents, she explained, were concerned that the rate of intermarriage between American Jews and Gentiles would eventually lead to the extinction of the American Jewish community. She was sorry to drop this on me, but she needed me to disappear while her parents were on campus. In fact, could I just go home and leave campus altogether? She promised to “make it up to me” as soon as her parents were gone.

I was absolutely floored. We hadn’t been dating that long, and had never really discussed any long term plans. “Under the circumstances, I’m not ready for you to meet my parents” would have been perfectly understandable. But to be told to disappear for the weekend because, as a goy, I was unacceptable to her not “particularly religious” mom and dad? Well, that was something of a shocker. I stood up, threw some money on the table for the coffee, wished her well, and never took her out again.

A decade later, mutual friends confirmed that my ex-girlfriend had, indeed, married a Nice Jewish Boy. On the other hand, her younger sister had married a Nice Catholic Boy, converting to Catholicism shortly before the wedding. The Nice Jewish Couple had no children, devoting their lives to their careers and to left-wing social activism. The Nice Catholic Couple already had three kids with more probably on the way.  The Jewish Grandparents were still mad at their Catholic convert daughter’s “betrayal”.

Though I didn’t know it at the time (late 80’s), it seems that my Jewish girlfriend’s parents had been right to be concerned. Rabbinic Judaism in America has not been, demographically speaking, in good shape for a long time. Social acceptance of Jews is so high in the US that the intermarriage rate has reached 52%.  When Jews marry non-Jews, they frequently convert, or at least allow their children to be raised as non-Jews. From a high of 6 million in the mid-20th Century, the Jewish population in America has actually declined to 5.5 million. Population growth has reduced the percentage of the Jewish population in the US from 3.7% to 2%. Multiple studies have warned that the American Jewish community could number less than 1 million by 2076.  There is real concern that American Jewish life could end up consisting primarily of isolated pockets of ultra-Orthodox Hasidim.

It is not only an American Jewish experience that social acceptance leads to assimilation which leads to fewer Jews remaining Jews. Australia was another nation where Jews were readily accepted on equal terms with non-Jews. The outcome for Jews was the same as we have seen in the United States – Jewish demographic decline. Walter Lippmann, a German Jew originally from a prosperous Hamburg-based family, discovered some alarming statistics in the early 1970’s that led the Jewish community in Australia to rethink its relationship to the dominant Australian culture:

Lippmann discovered that 80 percent of the descendants of the members of the Great Synagogue in Sydney from 80 years ago were no longer Jewish and his concern reached a fever pitch in 1971 when the census revealed that the number of Jews in Australia was again on the decline. One thing was certain to Lippmann and the now invigorated Jewish community, to ensure the long-term survival of the Jews in Australia, the policy of assimilation had to be dismantled and any kind of support for White Australia that was once entertained by Anglo-Jewry was utterly off the table.

Rather than “antisemitism” being the biggest threat to the survival of the Jewish people, it actually appears that assimilation into the dominant culture is a much bigger concern. Jewish American lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, in his book The Vanishing American Jew explored the “threat” to Jewish life posed by being warmly welcomed into societies such as America and Australia:

American Jewish life is in danger of disappearing, just as most American Jews have achieved everything we ever wanted: acceptance, influence, affluence, equality. As the result of skyrocketing rates of intermarriage and assimilation, as well as “the lowest birth rate of any religious or ethnic community in the United States,” the era of enormous Jewish influence on American life may soon be coming to an end.

 

But today’s most serious threats come not from those who would persecute us, but from those who would, without any malice, kill us with kindness–by assimilating us, marrying us, and merging with us out of respect, admiration, and even love. The continuity of the most influential Jewish community in history is at imminent risk, unless we do something dramatic now to confront the quickly changing dangers.

Imagine a situation in which the primary “threat” to your survival as a religious community is….kindness in various forms. The problem, from the perspective of Jewish survival, has not been that the dominant American culture hated and excluded Jews. On the contrary, the challenge for the survival of Rabbinic Judaism has been that the dominant American culture was so enticing, so attractive, so welcoming that too many Jews have chosen to assimilate to it.

So, what to do if one is determined to preserve Rabbinic Judaism  in the United States?  The chosen Rabbinic Jewish response in America seems to have been a two-fold strategy. First was a full-on attempt to undermine and destroy the dominant white, Christian (generically so) culture. Without a dominant culture, there is less pressure to assimilate, and much less benefit for the Jews that do. If you burn everything down outside the Jewish ghetto, then what is there to leave it for? The second strategy partially flows from the first – stoke and exploit “antisemitism” to keep Jews feeling alienated and isolated from their neighbors whom they view as enemies.

Destroying American National Culture

It’s been clear, for decades, that Jewish organizations, along with Jewish intellectuals and activists, have had a large role in destroying the moral consensus formerly at the heart of American culture. Jewish Marxists like Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse published works that undermined sexual mores. Their “cultural Marxist” work inspired both the “sexual revolution”, and many of the Jewish pornographers who were at the vanguard of pornography legalization during the 70s. One such Jewish pornographer remembers going to porn studios with “my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Revolution under my arm, and yelling about work, love and sex.” Many social and historical commentators have noted that pornography has mostly been a “Jewish enterprise”.

The Ottawa private equity firm that purchased the website Pornhub, Ethical Capital Partners, has a senior partner named Solomon Friedman – a lawyer, firearms advocate, and ordained rabbi. In an interview following the acquisition, Friedman outlined his plans to make the world’s largest porn site a force for good. Porn is intrinsically evil, addictive, and destructive. Why would anyone believe a porn site frequented by children could be a “force for good”?

Why does a rabbi own Pornhub?

Jews have been at the forefront of many of the changes in American culture including legalized abortion, no-fault divorce, the acceptance of homosexuality, and the sexualization of children. According to the Jewish Daily Forward, “Jewish women were overrepresented in reproductive rights everywhere in the US.” Notable Jewish women involved in promoting abortion included Betty Friedan, Susan Brownmiller, Ellen Willis, and Gloria Steinem. While at a Jewish American Heritage Month event, Joe Biden stated, “I bet you 85 percent of those changes [referring to the public acceptance of gay marriage], whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry.”

An article from Haaretz celebrated obscene Jewish comedians: “Brilliant actors like Larry David and Sarah Silverman are challenging America’s powerful religious, family-friendly culture and asserting their Jewishness by glorifying obscenity.” Nathan Abrams, a Jewish professor at the University of Aberdeen, summed it up, “Those at the forefront of the movement which forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were Jewish.”

Part of the Jewish-led social transformation is the increasing sexualization of children, particularly through schools. In the article excerpt below, you read about a governor of Jewish descent (Pritzker) signing into law a set of explicit sex education standards developed by The Future of Sex Education Initiative (FoSE) funded by the Grove Foundation, established by Andrew Grove (former Intel CEO) who was born András István Gróf to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.

In August 2021, Gov. Pritzker signed into law a new sex education bill for all public schools in Illinois, the first of its kind designed in accordance with the second edition of the National Sex Education Standards (NSES) to update sex ed curricula in K-12 schools. Bill SB0 818 will be implemented on or before Aug. 1, 2022. Though the bill includes a written opt-out for parents (but not an alternative if they do opt-out), many are concerned with the material being brought into children’s schools under the auspices of teaching them sexual health—namely gender identity ideology and other related material.

 

The NSES manual was crafted by The Future of Sex Education Initiative (FoSE) and funded by the Grove Foundation, which in turn has also worked with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (of Hewlett-Packard fortune) and Ford Foundation to institute Working to Institutionalize Sex Education (WISE)—“A national initiative that supports school districts in implementing sex education”—throughout the country.

The Rabbinic Jewish assault has not been limited to just the family, sexual morality, and childhood innocence. Americans’ current understanding of the First Amendment has more to do with Jewish-led court cases than with anything believed or written by the actual framers of our Constitution. For example, in Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Supreme Court ruled that school-sponsored prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The case was brought primarily by Steven Engel, a Jewish man in New York. The plaintiffs lost before the Supreme Court of New York in 1959, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York in 1960, and the Court of Appeals of New York in 1961. None of these courts viewed the practice of school prayer as the establishment of an official religion. The voluntary prayer at issue was: “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country.”  It took an appeal to the Federal Supreme Court to finally outlaw the practice of school prayer. A practice that was both widespread and widely supported by parents.

Outlawing a vaguely Christian prayer in schools is a logical step if one is afraid of Jewish children learning to assimilate by joining in a common religious practice with the other children. There has been much more involvement by Jews and Jewish organizations in litigation over public expressions of Christianity. The cumulative effect of this sustained legal assault has been absolutely demoralizing to American Christians. Most have now been conditioned to believe that government neutrality concerning religion is not only possible, but also required by the Constitution. Most Christian Americans actually believe that our Constitution requires treating Satanism, Islam, Judaism, Atheism, Paganism, and every other religion the same as Christianity in the public square. The last 50 years clearly show that such moral chaos is unworkable.

The belief that the government is required to display Satanic imagery on public property does not stem from the opinions of our founding fathers, but rather from the findings of modern courts in response to Jewish-led litigation. We have been sold a destructive lie as if it were our American heritage. 

In addition to outright “lawfare” against Christianity, Rabbinic Jews have been influential in the rapid decline of many of our major cities into crime and disorder. One example is George Soros (a Hungarian born Jew) who has spent lavishly to elect prosecutors that have repeatedly refused to effectively prosecute even the worst criminal offenders:

The United States has 70 prosecutors in office linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros after 12 left office last year.

 

A report from the group found that Soros-linked prosecutors oversee 20% of the U.S. population, including half of the country’s most populous cities, but more than 40% of all murders.

 

Soros poured $40 million into getting his candidates elected, many without any previous prosecutorial experience. In 10 races alone, he spent $13 million, by far the biggest spender in the race, and with some candidates constituted 90% of campaign funding. The funding was directed through affiliates, pass-through committees, and “shell corporations,” according to the report.

What we see championed legally, politically, and socially by so many Rabbinic Jews is a radical individualism free of any commitment to a common culture, which in America would necessarily be dominated by Christianity:

But starting in the 1960s, Jews, and liberals generally, took the good idea of liberal individualism too far. The very idea of a common culture, which they had previously seen as the pathway to success and belonging in America, started to seem discriminatory to them, since it implied that some peoples and cultures could fit into the common culture while others couldn’t. A common culture also implied the existence of common standards of behavior, derived from America’s declining WASP majority, to which people were expected to conform; and Jews in particular, after having eagerly adopted those standards in previous generations, began, in the liberatory afflatus of the Sixties, to find them stifling. Jews and other liberals thus turned from the moderate tolerance of mid-twentieth century America to what might be called tolerance absolutism, an attitude that delegitimized any notion of a common American culture or moral tradition (other than the tradition of liberalism itself), because shared cultural allegiances and moral norms would place limits on the individual self or the ethnic group. This radicalized liberalism made Jews feel even safer—and freer to express themselves as Jews—than before. Having realized the model of “pure-non-discrimination-and-individual-rights-without-a-majority-culture” as the very basis of their unprecedented success, freedom, and happiness in America, Jews saw that model as not only advantageous to themselves personally, but as advantageous to everyone—indeed, as the highest political truth. It didn’t occur to them that the radical individualist model worked so well for them because they are a uniquely high-achieving people operating in a still intact Western society. It didn’t occur to them that the model might not work so well for less capable or less assimilable people in a society without a cohesive common culture, such as America was now becoming due to the tolerance absolutism that was supported by the Jews themselves. It didn’t occur to them that both the intactness and the liberalism of the society would be threatened if the liberalism were taken too far.

 

Their belief that radical individualism is true for all mankind is thus for liberal secular Jews a crux of faith, an emotional prop to make sense of the world, and a key component of their identity as a people. More than any pragmatic calculus, it is the reason they bitterly resent any criticism of the liberal ideology and voraciously crave attempts to vindicate it, whether by assimilating Third-World immigrants, democratizing Moslem countries, or liquidating traditional values founded upon the restraint of individual desire. (Consider, for example, the Jewish community’s extraordinary degree of support for homosexual marriage, far more extensive than that of any other ethnic or religious group—a uniquely ironic outcome for the first major people in history who saw homosexuality as an abomination to God.)

Rabbinic Jews are some of the most important supporters of an extreme pluralism that denies even the very possibility of a common American culture or moral tradition. The results have been obvious.

One of the most destructive ways in which Rabbinic Jews have fought against American common culture has been unrestricted immigration, under the belief that any exclusion of any group from American society is a threat to all “outgroups”. This impulse drives many Jews, even those who openly fear an “Auschwitz” on American soil, to advocate for open immigration for groups, such as radical Muslims, who might even pose a potential threat to them:

The principle that all bigotry is indivisible implies that all manifestations of ingroup/outgroup feeling (if we’re speaking about the feelings of a gentile majority ingroup, that is) are essentially the same—and equally wrong. It says that if you’re against one outgroup, you’re against all outgroups. This denies the important truth that some outgroups (e.g., Mideastern Moslem fundamentalists) are much more different from the ingroup (e.g. America’s Anglo-Protestant majority culture), and hence much less assimilable, and hence more legitimately excluded, than other outgroups (e.g., Italian Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews). The belief in the indivisibility of all bigotry makes it impossible to distinguish between degrees of bigotry or ethnocentrism. It makes it impossible to distinguish between immoral bigotry, meaning the desire to hurt some other group, and the legitimate defense of one’s own people, their identity, and their interests. To erase such distinctions is the essence of political correctness, the reduction of all moral questions to a choice between “inclusion” and “hate.”

 

Now, when Jews put together the idea that “all bigotry is indivisible,” with the idea that “any social prejudice or exclusion directed against Jews leads potentially to Auschwitz,” they must reach the conclusion that any exclusion of any minority group, no matter how alien it may be to the host society, is a potential Auschwitz.

 

So there it is. We have identified the core assumption that makes many liberal and neoconservative Jews keep pushing relentlessly for mass immigration, even the mass immigration of their mortal enemies. As these Jews see it, any immigration restrictions against Moslems would release a latent ethnocentrism in the white American majority that would then turn instantly against the Jews. To state this thought process in the baldest terms, these Jews believe that if philo-Semitic white gentiles exclude Jew-hating Moslems from America, it would lead those same gentiles to commit another Jewish Holocaust.

 

In other words, open-borders Jews fear a totally non-existent white defense of America more than they fear the actual realities of mass legal and illegal immigration, multiculturalism, Mexican irredentism, Moslem jihadism, and all the rest of the forces that are threatening our country. For anyone who shares this view, it follows that the quicker America’s white majority is reduced to a minority by continued mass immigration, and the quicker America’s majority culture is pushed aside by immigrant cultures, the better off America will be.

And the faster America is turned into a Balkanized, crime ridden, culturally anarchic hellscape, the more secure Rabbinic Jews will be from the pressures of assimilation. In the new multi-cultural America, there will be nothing to assimilate to.

Interestingly, many analysts believe a fear of assimilation is at least partially responsible responsible for the bitterness of the struggle in Israel between Jews and Palestinians. A little over seven million Israelis live in Israel and the West Bank. Around seven million Palestinians live in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel and East Jerusalem. Given the equality of the numbers, Israeli Jews have an existential fear of being “outgrown” by the Palestinian population. This fear has been weaponized by the Netanyahu Government to drum up support for seizing more land from the Palestinians in a drive for “Greater Israel”, while simultaneously getting rid of the Palestinians by any means necessary.

Fomenting and Weaponizing “Antisemitism”

If you listen to most Jewish organizations, America is a writhing mass of dangerous “antisemitism”. That’s not really the case, of course. America has been so pro-Jewish that it borders more on Jew worship than Jew hate. Part of the incessant fear mongering is just so much fundraising grift. “We are fighting for our lives, please send money to stop the gas chambers!” Another part of the hysteria comes from classifying all criticism of Israel, or defenses of the Palestinian cause, as “antisemitism.” According to the ADL, since October 7th, there have been over 3,000 “antisemitic incidents”, including 1,300 rallies which featured anti-Zionist chants and slogans. Those stats are posted on the frontpage of the ADL’s Website right next to the big orange “Donate” button, naturally.

While claims that America is on its way to opening a new Auschwitz are a paranoid fantasy, it is true that Americans are souring on both Rabbinic Judaism and Zionism. Using billions of US tax dollars, stolen from inflation-ravaged Americans, to kill 30,000 people, wound double that, displace 1.9 million, and set the stage for full-on ethnic cleansing has proven to be unpopular with a large number of Americans. Especially since the impression has grown that far from being humble victims, American and Israeli Jews are actually privileged perpetrators.

Further, Americans have noticed the disconnect of pro-Israeli American politicians and Jews demanding more and more support for Israel, even as our Southern border is wide open and our own infrastructure is collapsing along with the value of the US Dollar. To counter the growing criticism, both “left” and “right” supporters of Israel have called for increased censorship and “cancelling” of those who dare to speak up. Most Americans don’t want to surrender their First Amendment right of free speech just because the truth offends pampered, Ivy League educated Jews and their hired politicians in Washington.

Now, you would think that if Jews were really concerned about growing antisemitism, then they would at least tone down the rhetoric and the policies that are upsetting so many Americans. Maybe fund some border wall construction. Or call for a cease fire in Gaza. Refrain from making incendiary statements about killing Palestinians, and criticize those who do. Express some sympathy for average Americans struggling to pay bills right now. You know – anything that would signal that Rabbinic Jews are with us and not against us.

But that’s not what’s happening. Many American Jews are doubling down on all the worst possible things. Why? Well, one reason might be that stoking antisemitism is a survival strategy for Rabbinic Judaism. If you are convinced the rest of the country hates you, then that tends to reinforce group identity and solidarity. In other words, Jews need enemies to remain Jews.

Dershowitz explored that theme in his book referenced earlier:

Many Jewish leaders, both religious and secular, have argued that Jews need enemies–that without anti-Semitism, Judaism cannot survive. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism and a secular Jew, believed that “our enemies have made us one … It is only pressure that forces us back to the parent stem.” In a prediction that reflects an approach to the survival of Judaism strikingly similar to that of the founder of the Lubavitch Hasidim, Herzl warned that if our “Christian hosts were to leave us in peace … for two generations,” the Jewish people would “merge entirely into surrounding races.” Albert Einstein agreed: “It may be thanks to anti-Semitism that we are able to preserve our existence as a race; that at any rate is my belief.” Jean-Paul Sartre, a non-Jew, went even further, arguing that the “sole tie that binds [the Jewish people together] is the hostility and disdain of the societies which surround them.” He believed that “it is the anti-Semite who makes the Jew.”

 

If the Tsuris (troubles) Theory of Jewish identity, survival, and unity is true, then Jews are doomed to live precariously on a pendulum perennially swinging in a wide arc between the extremes of persecution and assimilation. As the pendulum swings away from the Scylla of persecution, it inevitably moves toward the Charybdis of assimilation. In this reactive view, Jews have little power over their ultimate destiny. Our enemies always call the shots, either by persecuting us, in which case we fight back and remain Jewish, or by leaving us alone, in which case we assimilate. The only other alternative–the one proposed by Herzl–is for all Jews to move to Israel, where they control their own destiny. But most Jews will continue to ignore that option, certainly if our “hosts” continue to leave us in peace in our adopted homelands. In this respect, aliyah (emigration) to Israel has also been largely determined by our external enemies, since most Jews who have moved to the Jewish homeland have done so in reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution in their native countries.

To preserve their religious culture, many Rabbinic Jews believe they must be hated. They need enemies. Which is exactly what their attacks on American culture, their subversive dominance of key industries (media, finance, Pharma), and their dedication to a Zionist, racist state in the middle of a war of ethnic cleansing are providing them with – enemies. For American Christians, this situation is seemingly insane. Who could possibly want to be hated? Christ assured us that the world would hate us for His sake, but very few Christians go out of their way to encourage that. Through both shocking words and actions, Jewish and Israeli leaders are doing exactly that – encouraging the world to hate them. Unfortunately for Americans, as Israel’s biggest supporters, the world is now hating on us as well.

From a standpoint of rallying the Jews to stand together, this appears to be working as designed. Even secular American Jews are lashing out at their “gentile” neighbors and increasing their identification with their Jewish “ethnicity”.

Conclusion

The world of Rabbinic Judaism is so bizarre as to be almost incomprehensible for most of us. The recent discovery of illegally dug tunnels in New York is just the latest troubling revelation. Add the weirdness to the constant struggle against against American national culture / identity, combine all that with the actual need for enemies, and it should be clear to anyone that Rabbinic Judaism is a serious problem. One we can only begin to address by completely rejecting what we have “learned” from the past 60 years of indoctrination and Jewish legal victories. We must free our minds and embrace not only actual Christianity, but also a historically sound way of the Christian Faith interacting with the public sphere. Only then can we make a start towards draining the morass our nation has become.

Rabbinic Jews are made in the image and likeness of God. They are worthy of love and compassion with basic rights as befitting their human status. Rabbinic Judaism, however, is an anti-Christian, anti-human group of related religious philosophies that has proven absolutely toxic. It must be utterly rejected and no longer allowed to destroy the US and other Western countries from within.

Nicholas – member of the Western Rite Vicariate, a part of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in America