by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator

This is the version that appeared in The American Spectator. A later version, with more Jewish and Israeli examples that may be of interest to many readers, appeared in the Israel National News.

My readers and I enjoy a long-time reciprocal understanding: In return for putting up with me, my florid prose, wondering where I am flying with my article but amazed that I always safely land there, and sustaining my occasional puns, readers gain a unique, honest insight into what goes through the mind of an authentic Jew. Not a George Soros “Jew,” who is despised in Israel and by mainstream Jews everywhere, whose involvement dates back to helping his Nazi protector take inventory of seized Jewish property. Not a Bernie Sanders “Jew,” who is a Communist, honeymooned in Soviet Russia, publicly expressed enthusiasm over Soviet bread lines, and is now allied with Jew haters Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and other snakes of their ilk. Not moronic intersectionalist “Jews” like Ben and Jerry, who epitomize the “Palestinian” wing of the sickest of apostate woke Jews.

Instead, I offer a glimpse into honest, no-holds-barred thinking of a real Jew who loves G-d the Creator and His Torah, lives by His commandments, and loves G-d-blessed America for giving Jews the opportunities that no other country outside Israel ever gave Jews.

There is a world more to being Jewish than the Holocaust. Like so many of my associates, I am dismayed and appalled by Holocaust museums and trips to Holocaust death camps. I far prefer the image of Israel bombing the daylights out of Jenin, Gaza, and other anti-Jewish terrorist nests. After decades upon decades of “Holocaust education” and “Holocaust museums,” the result? America now has more anti-Semitism than ever before. Jew hatred has exploded, especially among the Left, particularly in the Black and related DEI/woke community. Need proof? Ilhan Omar. Rashida Tlaib. Cory Bush. Ocasio. Jamaal Bowman. Kanye West. Prayapal. Louis Farrakhan. Black Lives Matter. OK?

Outside the Orthodox Jewish community, Jews in America have become so assimilated that they cannot cite authentic Jewish sources or values, so they pin their tail on the Holocaust. That is all they have to show their children. Not Torah. Not Tanakh (the other 19 volumes of the Jewish Bible). Not Mishnah. Not Talmud. Not Rashi or Ibn Ezra or Ramban commentaries. Not Rambam’s Mishneh Torah or the Shulchan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law) or the Chofetz Chaim’s Mishneh B’rurah or centuries of rabbinic responsa by Judaic giants like the Chatam Sofer, the Tzitz Eliezer, Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Ovadia Yosef.

They have zero — ZERO — Judaism to transmit to their children. Their rabbis’ sermons are about “gay rights” and “gender-affirming surgeries” and pronouns. (Is the solution antinouns?) They are so assimilated that they cannot even transmit chulent, kugel, tzimmes, or kichel. All they have is the Holocaust — which they barely grasp.

Child: “Mommy, what does it mean that I’m Jewish?”

Mother: “Hitler and the Nazis killed your Aunt Saydie.”

Child: “Daddy, what does it mean that I’m Jewish?”

Father: “Hitler and the Nazis killed your Uncle Leibel and your aunt, Tanta Zelda.”

Child: “What are Nazis?”

Father: “Here, let’s watch the Republicans debate. I’ll show you Nazis.”

This is their empty, vapid Jewishness rooted in Nothing Jewish. Reform rabbis are so devoid of Torah that, on the holiest day of the year, they have nothing more inspiring to offer their Temples of Fools than to chant Ruth Bader Ginsburg judicial opinions in lieu of Holy Writ.

So they make endless movies about the Holocaust. Construct endless museums about the Holocaust. And the docents at their Holocaust museums compare what the Nazis did at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and so many other death camps to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the wrongly decided Roe v. Wade. Is it any wonder that their kids marry out and that so few of them have what Trump has: Jewish grandchildren?

So why don’t more Americans get exposed to what real Jews with real Jewish values think and say? Because the New York Times and Washington Post black them out. So do the mainstream media: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC — the whole bunch of them. They simply black us out. Like little babies who place their hands in front of their eyes and think others now cannot see them, these media blackout Jews with authentic Judaic views. That way no one will see them.

Media erasure of such Jews is not unique. The same leftist anti-religious, anti-family media do this to devout Catholics. The only time they report on Catholics is when they catch a priest in a scandal. It is the same for G-d-fearing Protestants. Never any coverage except when a clergyman at a megachurch is suspected of scandal. Otherwise: blackout.

Let hundreds of thousands rally in D.C. against abortion on demand. No coverage. Against homosexual marriage. No coverage. Against transgender grooming of children. No coverage. Against critical race theory in public schools. No coverage. Except —

Except … if the rally against abortion on demand includes a Catholic teen smirking at a “Native American.” Then the coverage explodes. They rip the kid apart. Until —

Until … it turns out that the Catholic kid was righteous, that he was accosted by an Indian with such a checkered past that life finally triple-jumped him. Then the coverage suddenly stops: Uh-oh, the Catholic kid is the good guy in the story. So the kid got millions in defamation damages.

But life goes beyond the leftist media. And, in the life of a Jew who just wants to be left alone, mind his own business, and enjoy the summer like everyone else, there is always something — seemingly every single day. It really is crazy. No complaints, mind you. Just sharing an insight into how crazy it gets:

It is morning and one turns to the day’s latest news, expecting to read about Ukraine and Russia, another trillion in federal debt, and Kamala successfully executing her daily demonstration that even a certified idiot can be a brain cell away from the presidency. The usual stuff.

And then the daily “Jew thing.” It’s crazy — like every day. In just one week:

1. Some Arab Muslim in Sweden —Sweden! — has a tantrum. No, not — as I first assumed — because he is the only Swede who is not blonde. Rather, because some Swedish idiot who immigrated there from Iraq burned a Quran — which is a despicable thing to do — this Arab who came to Sweden from Syria, another dirt hole, decides he is going to burn a Jewish holy book. Got that? The holy book of Islam is burned by an Arab from Iraq. So, in response, an Arab from Syria is going to take it out on the Jews. And this is happening in Sweden. To top it off, the government of Sweden gave the jerk a permit.

1. Another day, same week. It is announced that the socialist leftist ceremonial president of Israel — their head of state, not head of government — will be addressing Congress and meeting with Biden. This Israeli president supports homosexual parades in Holy Jerusalem, transgender perversion, the feminist stand on abortion, and economic socialism. You would think the Squad would cheerfully greet him at the airport and make him an honorary Squad member. Instead, Ilhan Omar, Somalia’s gift to America, whose biography includes having married her brother, states “there is no way in Hell” she will attend the speech. And Omar certainly knows her way around Hell. Next, Rashida Tlaib, the House “Palestinian,” follows suit. Then Ocasio. Cory Bush. Jamaal Bowman. Prayapal. In other words: Yes, we love where he stands on issues, but he is a Jew from the country of Jews. So, “no way in Hell.”
2. Another day, same week. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is running for president because everyone else is, tells someone that COVID was engineered to target White people and Black people. That covers the field, right? No, of course not. He adds that COVID does not harm three population groups. First, the Chinese. OK. Who else? The Finns. Not Huckleberry and family. Not the part of a fish with scales. But the Finns. Or, to paraphrase Omar, “No way in Helsinki.” And the third group? But of course: Ashkenazi Jews. (It emerges that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., actually is a strong supporter of Israel. This leaves the obvious reassuring inference: He simply is a nut with a crackpot COVID theory that conflicts profoundly with this.)

Ultimately, “Holocaust education” and Holocaust museums fail. With all that “education,” the world remains full of Kanye Wests, Whoopie Goldbergs, Arab Muslim book burners, Squads, and crackpots on the loose, many in the same week. The problem with “Holocaust education” is that it pathetically assumes people will identify more lovingly with Jews as victims. And that is the poison of Leftist ideology: victimology. Jews certainly have had some rough goings and may again. But victimology is not what has sustained Jews through 3,300 years. Torah has. Jews are not victims.

And so this insight into the daily life of an authentic Jew. No complaints whatsoever. It is part of the deal we signed at Mount Sinai. Let’s see what crops up tomorrow.

Originally published in The American Spectator

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