I do care about the Jews who may now be trapped in a Russia that no longer *tolerates* them. The leeks and garlic and good life of the past twenty years may be no more. Seems they forgot and now are doomed to repeat.
In a war with no good guys, and both sides having over a millennia of previous form murdering your brethren, and hundreds of thousands of your brethren hostage to fortune; taking sides rather than observing a strict neutrality is just being feckin' stupid. What use is a 10-20% higher average IQ if you are bereft of all Common Sense?
"Raid"? "Stasi?" "The end of America"? Good lord, give it a rest before you have a stroke. The search of a former president's home--in this case, Trump's Mar-a-Lago--is unprecedented, but it's not an "insult to our democracy." What part of the Constitution says presidents are exempt from criminal investigation? None. Serving a search warrant on MAL isn't proof of anything except the FBI needed information and a federal judge ruled the request had enough legal merit to proceed.
That's it.
The judge KNOWS this warrant will be scrutinized by hundreds of millions of Americans when it becomes public. I'd bet all the money in my pocket the judge made sure that thing was legally bulletproof before signing it. That made the search legal and reasonable. Since none of us knows what the warrant said, and what the FBI was trying to find, there's no way anyone can call this search "unacceptable." Of course it's acceptable; search warrants are how we gather evidence. FBI will find what it finds, won't find what isn't there, and we may or may not know what that was some day.
Stasi didn't bother with warrants, it just knocked on the door after midnight. This isn't that, not even remotely, except for those using it to chum the waters with outrage fish. "Get ready for Civil War!" screams the right-wing rage machine. Seriously? Over a search warrant? Meth is not your friend.
If Republicans choose to serve Biden with a search warrant for Whatever down the road, fine. If they have the proof of criminality to merit a search, they can knock themselves out.
Why is anyone surprised?! This is a feature of a illiberal democracies. Whether it is Putin. Modi, Orban, or any other such leader, democracy is a problem for them!
Thank God that Israel is a vibrant, democratic, Jewish state.
Russian culture probably hasn't changed much since the Vikings made the Slavs slaves and a unique form of Russian Orthodoxy became the dominant religion. As a HS Senior the teacher assigned me to give a ten minute presentation on European Radicalism. All the sources came from Russia. Teacher asked me why none from Britain and France? Didn't know. He taught me that suppression breeds radicalism. True then, true now. Really can't sustain serfs, Tsars, Bolsheviks, and KGBs without suppression, along with acceptance, but only up to a point.
And Reb Tevye described life there as a "Fiddler on the Roof" for just cause. Emigration from there made Judaism vibrant and secure in America. My generation rallied successfully with SSSJ in the 1970s to enable Russians to make Israel vibrant. Whether Russia will become like the Arab Lands that once had a lot of Jews but no longer does remains to play out. Doubt if Putin, or even the Soviets, really want that to happen. They know where their contributory talent comes from.
While Israel has served its role as place of refuge, it's role is really more than that. While American Jews rule a few municipalities like my native Monsey or Kiryas Joel, and we elect enough national officials to have influence, Israel is really the only place to provide true Jewish sovereignty, not just a place of safety or default. Russia, Arab Lands, Europe, and South America have all had their stable and threatening eras over very long spans of history. It's one thing to be secure, quite another to own the place.
Like his late father, Yair Lapid is both an idiot and the proverbial "bull in a china shop". Add to that his narcissistic egotism and ideological "cart jumping", and it's painfully clear why he could not possibly keep his mouth shut about Russia, Russian involvement in Ukraine, and anything else that came to his small mind. As bad as Naftali Levin is/was as Israeli PM, it's been worse since he passed the baton to his coalition partner.
It is not only Jews who believed Russia had changed who are cynics or naifs. It is a common weakness in the thinking of many people. Antisemitism is endemic everywhere, even among Jews, although much of it is more antizionism that antisemitism, especially in the Middle East.
If you ever hear an "anti-Zionist" give their spiel just ask them where all these awful settler colonist Jews in Israel should go? And you will quickly see that "anti-Zionism" is just the same old wicked antisemitism of the past. Send them back to where exactly, these settler colonist Jews. Where do we go? Russia? Ukraine? America? England? France? Poland? Germany? Where do you send us?
The comments hear don't make much sense to me, sounded like a fairly mundane article. Not a lot there looks controversial to me. I say mundane since "things are bad for the jews" was the general sentiment and has pretty much been the case for the last 1000 years. I'm a big supporter of Israel.
Thanks for this article. Terrible situation for Jews in Russia. But good to know what is going on there. Ukraine is not as black and white issue as the Corporate Fake News Networks tell us. But what little support that I had left for Putin just dropped severely.
There are a lot of suppositions in this article; insinuations, guesses and opinions with no evidence to support them. Fear is not reality. The situation with Ukraine is complicated and there is much we do not know. Jews tend to make EVERY issue an anti-Semitism issue; the fact is no one knows the reason the Jewish Center is being closed. Israel is actively sending aid to Ukraine, which Russia sees as siding with them. Russia is within their rights to respond. I have been to Israel and helped Russian Jewish immigrants there. Russia has been a GOOD friend to the Jewish people. Maybe the problem is the unstable Israeli government. That situation does not make the political relationship with Russia any easier.
Sounds to me like the new Israeli prime minister is primarily to blame for the agency’s closure. Smart diplomacy for sure to take a harder line against Russia in the middle of it’s so-called intervention to de-Nazify Ukraine and not expect the most obvious, easiest form of retaliation. Reminds me of the dangerous rhetoric of American and NATO officials who refuse to get directly involved even as Ukraine’s farming industry is being destroyed, at least in part by Russian artillery (https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-wheat-fire-war-russia-invasion/31950153.html). According to Peter Zeihan, on a recent Triggernometry podcast, Russia is pressuring Germany to leave NATO if it wants to keep the oil flowing for continued industrialization. Having shut down their nuclear power plants, this is a critical concern for the Germans, who smirked when Trump warned them that their energy policy was too intertwined with Russia. That, combined with seeing newish reports of Ukrainian corruption in the American press (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/20/1112414884/corruption-concerns-involving-ukraine-are-revived-as-the-war-with-russia-drags-o), something everyone knew at the outset, suggests to me that we’re about to sell them out, especially if Germany decides to link its future with Russia. And if our president doesn’t think that capitulation will result in other forms of retaliation he is dreaming with his mouth open.
Regardless of the political subtleties or the relative moral standing of various countries, one thing is crystal clear: there’s no long-term future for the Jewish people anywhere outside of Israel.
I do care about the Jews who may now be trapped in a Russia that no longer *tolerates* them. The leeks and garlic and good life of the past twenty years may be no more. Seems they forgot and now are doomed to repeat.
In a war with no good guys, and both sides having over a millennia of previous form murdering your brethren, and hundreds of thousands of your brethren hostage to fortune; taking sides rather than observing a strict neutrality is just being feckin' stupid. What use is a 10-20% higher average IQ if you are bereft of all Common Sense?
"Raid"? "Stasi?" "The end of America"? Good lord, give it a rest before you have a stroke. The search of a former president's home--in this case, Trump's Mar-a-Lago--is unprecedented, but it's not an "insult to our democracy." What part of the Constitution says presidents are exempt from criminal investigation? None. Serving a search warrant on MAL isn't proof of anything except the FBI needed information and a federal judge ruled the request had enough legal merit to proceed.
That's it.
The judge KNOWS this warrant will be scrutinized by hundreds of millions of Americans when it becomes public. I'd bet all the money in my pocket the judge made sure that thing was legally bulletproof before signing it. That made the search legal and reasonable. Since none of us knows what the warrant said, and what the FBI was trying to find, there's no way anyone can call this search "unacceptable." Of course it's acceptable; search warrants are how we gather evidence. FBI will find what it finds, won't find what isn't there, and we may or may not know what that was some day.
Stasi didn't bother with warrants, it just knocked on the door after midnight. This isn't that, not even remotely, except for those using it to chum the waters with outrage fish. "Get ready for Civil War!" screams the right-wing rage machine. Seriously? Over a search warrant? Meth is not your friend.
If Republicans choose to serve Biden with a search warrant for Whatever down the road, fine. If they have the proof of criminality to merit a search, they can knock themselves out.
Why is anyone surprised?! This is a feature of a illiberal democracies. Whether it is Putin. Modi, Orban, or any other such leader, democracy is a problem for them!
Thank God that Israel is a vibrant, democratic, Jewish state.
Not just a nice idea, a necessity as well. Indeed.
Russian culture probably hasn't changed much since the Vikings made the Slavs slaves and a unique form of Russian Orthodoxy became the dominant religion. As a HS Senior the teacher assigned me to give a ten minute presentation on European Radicalism. All the sources came from Russia. Teacher asked me why none from Britain and France? Didn't know. He taught me that suppression breeds radicalism. True then, true now. Really can't sustain serfs, Tsars, Bolsheviks, and KGBs without suppression, along with acceptance, but only up to a point.
And Reb Tevye described life there as a "Fiddler on the Roof" for just cause. Emigration from there made Judaism vibrant and secure in America. My generation rallied successfully with SSSJ in the 1970s to enable Russians to make Israel vibrant. Whether Russia will become like the Arab Lands that once had a lot of Jews but no longer does remains to play out. Doubt if Putin, or even the Soviets, really want that to happen. They know where their contributory talent comes from.
While Israel has served its role as place of refuge, it's role is really more than that. While American Jews rule a few municipalities like my native Monsey or Kiryas Joel, and we elect enough national officials to have influence, Israel is really the only place to provide true Jewish sovereignty, not just a place of safety or default. Russia, Arab Lands, Europe, and South America have all had their stable and threatening eras over very long spans of history. It's one thing to be secure, quite another to own the place.
Like his late father, Yair Lapid is both an idiot and the proverbial "bull in a china shop". Add to that his narcissistic egotism and ideological "cart jumping", and it's painfully clear why he could not possibly keep his mouth shut about Russia, Russian involvement in Ukraine, and anything else that came to his small mind. As bad as Naftali Levin is/was as Israeli PM, it's been worse since he passed the baton to his coalition partner.
It is not only Jews who believed Russia had changed who are cynics or naifs. It is a common weakness in the thinking of many people. Antisemitism is endemic everywhere, even among Jews, although much of it is more antizionism that antisemitism, especially in the Middle East.
2 years ago jews were hunted and chased in the streets of LA and NYC, that's reality.
If you ever hear an "anti-Zionist" give their spiel just ask them where all these awful settler colonist Jews in Israel should go? And you will quickly see that "anti-Zionism" is just the same old wicked antisemitism of the past. Send them back to where exactly, these settler colonist Jews. Where do we go? Russia? Ukraine? America? England? France? Poland? Germany? Where do you send us?
The comments hear don't make much sense to me, sounded like a fairly mundane article. Not a lot there looks controversial to me. I say mundane since "things are bad for the jews" was the general sentiment and has pretty much been the case for the last 1000 years. I'm a big supporter of Israel.
Thanks for this article. Terrible situation for Jews in Russia. But good to know what is going on there. Ukraine is not as black and white issue as the Corporate Fake News Networks tell us. But what little support that I had left for Putin just dropped severely.
Given Russia's huge expanse, perhaps Jews should just pack up and leave, visa or no visa. Why wait for the pogroms.
There are a lot of suppositions in this article; insinuations, guesses and opinions with no evidence to support them. Fear is not reality. The situation with Ukraine is complicated and there is much we do not know. Jews tend to make EVERY issue an anti-Semitism issue; the fact is no one knows the reason the Jewish Center is being closed. Israel is actively sending aid to Ukraine, which Russia sees as siding with them. Russia is within their rights to respond. I have been to Israel and helped Russian Jewish immigrants there. Russia has been a GOOD friend to the Jewish people. Maybe the problem is the unstable Israeli government. That situation does not make the political relationship with Russia any easier.
Sounds to me like the new Israeli prime minister is primarily to blame for the agency’s closure. Smart diplomacy for sure to take a harder line against Russia in the middle of it’s so-called intervention to de-Nazify Ukraine and not expect the most obvious, easiest form of retaliation. Reminds me of the dangerous rhetoric of American and NATO officials who refuse to get directly involved even as Ukraine’s farming industry is being destroyed, at least in part by Russian artillery (https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-wheat-fire-war-russia-invasion/31950153.html). According to Peter Zeihan, on a recent Triggernometry podcast, Russia is pressuring Germany to leave NATO if it wants to keep the oil flowing for continued industrialization. Having shut down their nuclear power plants, this is a critical concern for the Germans, who smirked when Trump warned them that their energy policy was too intertwined with Russia. That, combined with seeing newish reports of Ukrainian corruption in the American press (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/20/1112414884/corruption-concerns-involving-ukraine-are-revived-as-the-war-with-russia-drags-o), something everyone knew at the outset, suggests to me that we’re about to sell them out, especially if Germany decides to link its future with Russia. And if our president doesn’t think that capitulation will result in other forms of retaliation he is dreaming with his mouth open.
Regardless of the political subtleties or the relative moral standing of various countries, one thing is crystal clear: there’s no long-term future for the Jewish people anywhere outside of Israel.
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