Category: Jews

Yes, it’s time for my annually revamped Passover post

Posted on April 5, 2023 by Bookworm

Every year for Passover, I write a post describing the general principles but with a different person standing in as Pharoah. This year, Biden again gets the Egyptian crown.

The 2022.11.20 Bookworm Video Podcast — Kanye and Dave Chappelle

Posted on November 20, 2022 by Bookworm

This is a valiant attempt on my part to look at Kanye’s and Dave Chappelle’s recent run-ins with claims that they are antisemitic. My conclusions may surprise you.

Yes, Kanye West is an antisemite

Posted on October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 by Bookworm

This is my end zone dance because I was correct in my earlier post about Kanye West’s antisemitism. Yesterday, I wrote a post about Kanye West’s appearance on Tucker Carlson. In the post, I warned conservatives against getting too excited about West. He’s not a conservative ally. Among other things,

A not-very-good Jew’s thoughts about Jewish identity

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Bookworm

When I realized that some people in Phillie’s LGBTQ+ sex grooming workshops present as Jewish, I figured I needed to think about Jewish identity. I always tell people I’m Jewish but, as the saying goes, “it’s complicated.” I was not raised religiously at all, so I’m almost as at sea

Happy Hanukkah

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 by Wolf Howling

The first night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, begins tonight. Happy Hanukkah. This from Ms. Bookworm in 2012: As every Jew will tell you, in the traditional Jewish calendar Hanukkah is not big deal. It reached its present status because it happens to fall at the same time as

For Passover this year, China will take Pharaoh’s role

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 by Bookworm

The Passover story provides us with deep insights into the nature of tyranny. This year, China’s tyranny is the subject of my annual Passover post. For roughly 3,500 years, Jews have been telling and retelling the story of Passover — which is also the story of the world’s first revolt

Happy Hanukkah!!

Posted on December 22, 2019December 25, 2019 by Bookworm

To those of you who celebrate the Jewish festival of lights: !חג חנוכה שמח Chag chanukkah sameach! Happy Hanukkah! And for everyone, Jews included, who would like to learn more about what really happened, check out this Jeff Dunetz post explaining the real Hanukkah story.

Fiddler on the Roof: The Leftist tendency to own the Jewish experience

Posted on November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 by Bookworm

A new movie about the making of Fiddler on the Roof highlights how the Left is making meaningless both anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. (I’m still away from home and from my computer, and am keeping busy helping a friend who had major surgery. I have limited technology and even less

Happy 5780! L’shanah tovah!

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Bookworm

To all of my Jewish friends, l’shanah tovah! May this upcoming year of 5780 be a sweet and happy one! And to all my non-Jewish friends, may the coming lunar year be a sweet and happy one too!

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Bookworm Beat 5/7/19 — the Vanishing Conservatives on Social Media edition

Posted on May 7, 2019May 12, 2019 by Bookworm

There are reasons for you to be very afraid of the social media crackdown on conservatives (even fringe ones), plus other scary stuff in today’s world. Democrats prepare for 2020 by silencing conservatives. If I had to identify the scariest news today, it would be Twitter’s purge of conservatives, which

Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism are the same thing

Posted on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by Bookworm

The only difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism is semantics — the former is simply the latest manifestation of the world’s oldest hatred. [give_form id=”59195″]

Passover: the nature of tyranny never changes but freedom is worth the fight

Posted on April 19, 2019January 8, 2020 by Bookworm

Passover tells us that tyrants fall only when revolution affects them directly and that revolutions are successful only when focused on individual liberty. Passover, which begins tonight, is about so many things: the Jewish people’s renewed covenant with God; their escape from slavery; the journey that ended with the Ten

Leftism, Islam, anti-Semitism, and the Jews

Posted on March 7, 2019April 5, 2019 by Bookworm

Democrats and Muslims have come together with anti-Semitism because it is their ideological destiny — and Leftist Jews are too indoctrinated to see it. One of the fascinating things about the world in which we live is the alliance between Leftists and Muslims. At first glance, it seems as if

Happy Hanukkah 2018!

Posted on December 2, 2018November 30, 2018 by Bookworm

This is brilliant, both as a perfectly performed Queen-inspired song and as a Hanukkah song. Chag Sameach!

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Bookworm Beat 11/12/18 — the post-election counting edition and open thread

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by Bookworm

It’s not losing seats that bothers me, it’s the fact that post-election counts and recounts invariably favor Democrats, which is banana republic stuff. Post-election recounts and miscounts and discounts and God alone knows what else. I’m not actually going to blog too much about post-election recounts, despite using them as part