Tolstoy said that everyone thinks to change the world but nobody thinks to change themselves. But what if your life depended on it? would you change then? Can the most stubborn people on earth look at one of its most painful episodes and draw new lessons? Although it was recorded mid 2020, this episode was eerily prophetic in anticipating the meteoric rise of antisemitism we see today. As we muster the courage to discuss the Holocaust, we look for disturbing connections between the dissolution of German Jews in 1930 and the dissolution of American Jews 90 years later. Can Jews change their identity? Can Jews be anything but who nature intended them to be? Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Why did Bari Weiss resign? And what happens if we replace the true concept of the Messiah with the false Messiah of "being like everyone else"? #Israel #jews #jewish #antisemitism #thetribe #judaism #zionism #repeat #1930 

This is part three on the birth of Zionism and the relationships between Jews in Europe at the turn of the 19th century. The world is not a nice place but if you have a desire for unity, then maybe, just maybe, you have a little Jew in you. Why is it so hard for us to accept the conditions that led to the birth of Zionism? Why is it so difficult to connect with someone when you disagree? How come it takes so much effort to get off our a$$#s and fight for a good change and why is it that when people do it, they almost always get co-opted by some higher, not-as-good interests? How do you explain that fact that Jews are always at the forefront of every revolution and every social change yet, like with the women's march, end up being shunned by their comrades sooner or later and accused of the very same things they set out to abolish? What are we not doing right? A positive and a negative do make light but they need connection in the middle to make that happen! Isn't this the Jew Function? 

#israel #antisemitism #anti-semitism #jew #jewish #thetribe #contradictions #zionism #connection 

The moment the gates of the shtetl were thrown open by the Tzar, there was nothing keeping the Jews of Eastern Europe together. Why do some Jews feel compelled to keep to the religious tradition while others become hopeless social revolutionaries? Is this because we intuitively feel the plight of the oppressed? Or is it an unconscious defense mechanism working to ensure the society we’re in will grow to become diverse enough, inclusive enough, to eventually accept us as first degree citizens? Are e doomed to have our national loyalty questioned as long as Israel is around? How come the different Jewish factions must become sworn enemies and and why does this strange pattern keep repeating itself? How do we break the cycle and create a model Jewish society that can embrace extreme opposites as essential halves of one whole? #revolution #jews #Israel #zionism #Haskala #Enlightenment #unity

The state of Israel wouldn’t be born if not for the effects of the holocaust which in turn wouldn’t have happened if not, in part, due to the assimilation attempts of German Jews and the deep schism between them and Orthodox and Zionist Jews, the latter of which wouldn’t have existed if Jews didn’t feel they needed to aspire to return to Israel, which wouldn’t have happened if not for the “Storms in the South” pogroms of 1881, which wouldn’t have started if not for the Jewish role in the revolutions that led to the assassination of Tzar Alexander II, which wouldn’t have happened if not for the mass exodus of Jews from their shtetls into the universities - thanks to said Tzar, which was his attempt to emancipate Jews from their Jewish way of life. Dizzy yet? If we’re not willing to ask what are the causes of the new antisemitism and then what caused that, and what cause that and what caused that… all the way to what did nature ‘want’ when it caused all of this to happen in the first place - we’ll never get to the bottom of this. Into the rabbit hole we go. #jew #jewish #antisemitism #history #israel #pogrom #zionism #Russia #shtetl

They say history repeats itself. But it's not an exact rerun. There's always room for free choice to change the course we're on - but only if we have enough relevant information.  The human-animal was endowed by nature to be a pattern cognition machine,  evaluating the past in real-time, to predict a good positive outcome in the future. The events of the first days of 2021 and the reactions from the ruling class will soon follow a familiar pattern as they did 80 years ago and 500 years ago before that when Jewish allegiance is questioned and Jewish Conversos took part in the undoing of the largest Jewish concentration outside of Israel since the time of the first temple. And no amount of kicking, screaming and pleading innocence will help, since nature demands and we must respond in kind.  Join us as we wrap up the golden age in Spain with the famous Alhambra decree and subsequent expulsion and elimination of the Jewish community in the Iberian peninsula.  #jew #jewish #antisemitism #anti-semitism #israel #judaism #ancienthistory #zionism #patternrecognition #jewishconspiracy #conversos #cryptojews 

What's a crypto Jew and why is the very idea freaking people out? Why were Jews expelled, banished and sent out from over 800 places in the last 2000 years? Can we prevent the next big expulsion or worse? To find out, travel back in time with us to the dawn of the Spanish inquisition in the late 1400's. Indeed, in the Jewish collective consciousness, before the Holocaust the expulsion from Spain was the second only to the destruction of the temple. But the events that preceded that historic ejection bear striking similarities to the events in 1930's Europe and, not surprisingly, to the events in 2020's United States. If we learn to read the signs, connect the dots, and see the patterns, we can predict the near future with a certain degree of confidence. Enough to take notice and try something new in our never ending war on Jew hatred and self-hating Jewishness.  For best results, start from episode 1.

#jew #jewish #israel #antisemitism #anti-semitism #judaism #ancienthistory #torquemada #inquisition #maranos #expulsion

“Why does he make us feel the questions if he’s not going to give us any answers?” asks Larry Gopnik in the Cohen brothers's A Serious Man.  It feels like it's the story of our people, the perfect  Schadenfreude, a bitter-sweet mystery that never lets us revel in one state alone. A life lived under the constant threat of annihilation, where every good fortune that visits us is shadowed by a terrible misfortune. Is the solution to cling to the good and hope for the best? Or is nature playing a game with us and our proud individual American spirit is somehow blinding us to the real answer? can we rise to the challenge? Can we end the cycle? #antisemitism #anti-semitism #pocast #jewish 

Some 2000 years ago, a gentile joined the budding Jewish nation to become the greatest teacher that ever lived. He had 24,000 students and he taught one rule: love your fellow man as you love yourself. "As yourself", meaning you love yourself more than anything else, so love this person next to you more than anything including yourself. But Akiva didn't teach a moral code, he taught a reality hack. So what prevented Jews in the times of the second temple from exercising love to save themselves back then and do we have a chance of finding love between us now when not only the fate of Israel is at stake, but the fate of the entire world. 

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 #jews #jewish #antisemitism #anti-semtisim #thetribe #politics #israel #love #politics #akiva #rabbiakiva 

The bloody great revolt marked the end of the age of antiquity in the history of the Jews and the beginning of life in exile. But what actually took place inside the walls of Jerusalem in those last moments before the Romans marched in, will make your stomach turn. Unfounded hatred paved the road to the destruction of the 2nd temple with the bodies of our brothers and sisters. And the scary part is that the parallels to our time are beyond coincidental: political polarization, extreme social allergy, sedition by violent militias, snubbing local laws, false social influencers, and a world at a historical turning point. Could it be that when we unleash our inherent power in the wrong direction we invoke such fear in the hearts of the nations of the world that their only logical response is to try and extricate this toxic element from their midst? What if we could harness that same destructive energy but used it to power a totally new reality instead?

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 #israel #jew #jews #jewish #antisemitism #thetribe #anti-semitism #revolt #history #antiquity #nuclear #unity

If Jews were not meant to be rulers, kings, and conquerors then what WERE they meant to be? Why was the victory of the Maccabees doomed from the start and, really, is there really a problem with philosophizing while hot tubbing in a gymnasium? It feels like we Jews aren’t supposed to have it good for too long but why? What is behind that recurring pattern and can we break the chain that separates us from everyone else?

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 #jew #jews #judaism #israel #maccabees #antisemitism #anti-semitism #thetribe