http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/VideoLibrary/DepFM_Ayalon_Truth_West_Bank-July_2011.htm?lang=english

This has been making the rounds on the Internet, and we don’t vouch for its accuracy.

         
Is it possible for your ancestry, religious affiliation, or nationality to determine your intellect?

According to a study performed by Cambridge University called, “From Chance to Choice: Genetic and Justice,” Ashkenazi Jews have a median IQ of 117.

That’s 10 points higher than the “accepted” IQ of their biggest competition, Northeast Asia, and 20% higher than the global average.

The Ashkenazim make up approximately 80% of all Jews with descendants from Medieval Germany and throughout Europe. The other 20% is made up of Sephardic Jews.

Other researchers state results for the Ashkenazim tests show an IQ score a little bit lower than 117, but one thing they can all agree on- they’re still topping the charts.

An interesting observation that the study points out: the scores for “visual-spatial” were particularly low, and ipso-facto the math and language scores are astonishing.

According to USA Today, “Ashkenazi Jews comprise 2.2% of the USA population, but they represent 30% of faculty at elite colleges, 21% of Ivy League students, 25% of the Turing Award winners, 23% of the wealthiest Americans, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors.”

Wait, that’s not all!

According to the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, “Since 1950, 29% of the Oslo awards have gone to Ashkenazim, even though they represent only 0.25% of humanity. Ashkenazi achievement in this arena is 117 times greater than their population.”

Reprinted from Shalom Life

Moishe, a Yeshiva boy, graduates high school and is about to go to college. He was born and lived in Brooklyn his entire life but he gets a full scholarship to the University of Montana and it is such a generous deal that his parents, who would prefer to keep him in Brooklyn forever, let him go.

Six months go by and they have not heard from him. They’re frantic. They call the dorm and are told that he doesn’t live there anymore. They call the Registrar who says that he is no longer enrolled. They are about to fly to Montana when a letter comes from Moishe:

‘Dear Mother, Dear Father, Sorry I have been so negligent but I met the most wonderful girl and we plan to marry. That is why I dropped out of school. Little Feather is a Native American, a princess in her tribe, and her father is the Chief.

He has made me a member of the tribe. I had to leave school because of the nonsense they teach about Native Americans - the lack of respect, the distortions of history. But now I understand things better.

I have decided to take a Native American name which the Chief helped me decide. From now on, please call me Running Deer. I will NOT answer correspondence addressed to Moishe.’

A few days later he gets a reply:

‘Dear Running Deer. Your dad and I are pleased that you have finally found a woman to love and that you are happy on the reservation. We regret that she is not Jewish but to celebrate your new love and upcoming marriage we also have decided to take Native American names…

I am now SITTING SHIVA and your father is GOING MISHUGA.

A splendid violinist,  Huberman was born in Poland and studied violin with the renowned Joseph Joachim in Berlin…became a close friend of Arthur Rubinstein, the pianist…in 1896 played Brahms’ violin concerto for Brahms himself, who was amazed at his prowess…

In 1929, Huberman first visited Palestine – and a few years later put together an all-Jewish orchestra to rescue Jews from Nazism in Europe. He persuaded Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first concerts, writing to him that he was “obsessed” with the idea of a Jewish orchestra.

A year after Huberman died, Israel became a nation – and the Palestine Philharmonic became the Israel Philharmonic.

This year marks the orchestra’s 75th anniversary.

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Nocturne No. 9, No. 2, Chopin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJVhc285NU

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNC772n9f8

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIBVNK_4bs&feature=related

Kol Nidrei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIBVNK_4bs&feature=related

Bach Violin Concerto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLpHuw_n2zs&feature=related

Romanza Andaluza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9M3znlOA90&feature=related

While on vacation in Rome, I noticed a marble column in St. Peter’s with a golden telephone on it.  As a young priest passed by, I asked whom the telephone was for.  The priest told me it was a direct line to heaven, and if I’d like to call, it would be a thousand dollars.  I was amazed, but declined the offer.

Throughout Italy , I kept seeing the same golden telephone on a marble column.  At each, I asked about it and the answer was always the same:

It was a direct line to heaven and I could call for a thousand dollars.

I continued my tour and arrived in Israel .  I decided to attend temple services at a local synagogue.  When I walked in the door I noticed a golden telephone. Underneath it there was a sign stating: “DIRECT LINE TO HEAVEN: 25 cents.”

“Rabbi,” I said, “I have been all over Italy and in all the cathedrals I visited, I’ve seen telephones exactly like this one.  But the price was always a thousand dollars.  Why is it that this one is only 25 cents?”

The rabbi smiled and said,“You’re in Israel now. It’s a local call.”

by Gil Ronen

MK Alex Miller, Head of the Knesset’s Education, Culture and Sport Committee, is initiating a bill that would make academic institutions that do not play the national anthem in their ceremonies ineligible for state funding.

The bill was conceived after Haifa University and the Hebrew University’s School of Social Work refused to play the national anthem at their latest graduation ceremonies. The refusals were explained by the claim that Arab graduates would be offended by the anthem.

The bill determines that institutes for higher learning that wish to be funded by the state must play the national anthem at every formal ceremony, including commencement ceremonies and other events that have national meaning.

 

“In view of the fact that the State of Israel funds the institutes for higher learning and invests tens of thousands of shekels in every student, the decision to keep the anthem out of commencement ceremonies is a particularly insolent and unacceptable one.

 

“This action has nothing to do with academic freedom and expresses the private will of people to use their position and status in order to express a radical political stance that disrespects national symbols. Some hinted that they decided to forgo the playing of HaTikva so as not to offend certain populations. This is a slippery and dangerous slope. What will be the next stage? Will they also remove the national flag?”

 

The Knesset’s Education Committee will convene Monday for an urgent meeting in which Miller intends to notify the heads of academic institutions of the legislative initiative. “The Council for Higher Learning and the Council of University Heads should realize that there is a limit to [their] disregard and cynicism, he warned. He hinted that if the obligation to play the anthem is written into the universities’ internal rules and enforced, he would forgo the legislation.

 

 

Dear Readers, Colleagues, and Supporters:

This will be a long letter, so please bear with me. In May of 2011 I wrote 24 articles; in June of 2011 I only wrote 5 articles. I was forced to slow down due to major surgery and the inevitable post-surgical setbacks. Forgive me for not being able to post my usual 2-3 articles every week.

As you may know, I have been a pioneering voice in terms of Israel advocacy and in documenting the worldwide rise of genocidal anti-Semitism. In 2002, after 18 months of feverish research and writing, I published The New Anti-Semitism: The Coming Crisis and What To Do About It. My book was the first to expose and analyze the dangerous alliance of western progressives and leftists, including Jewish liberals and feminists, with Islamist misogynists; among the first of my generation to discuss the betrayal of both the Jews and the truth by the allegedly "good" people on university campuses, at international conferences, among human rights activists, and in the media. I envisioned the possibility of a new kind of Holocaust early on and wrote about it from 2004 on. I went on to write hundreds, perhaps thousands, of articles, deliver countless lectures, and give hundreds of media interviews on these subjects.

Some leading rabbis, academics, and Israeli counterterrorist experts praised my work as "prophetic" and "visionary." Liberals and leftists condemned it and refused to publish or review my work in this area. I was viewed as a traitor and no longer invited to speak or consulted by academics or left-liberals on the burning issues of the day. Often, I was disinvited—or subjected to heckling and badgering at my lectures.

Undeterred, in 2005, I published my thirteenth book, The Death of Feminism, which focused on the penetration of Islamic gender apartheid in the West. I explained that feminism's original vision of universal human rights had, regrettably, morphed into a pro-totalitarian and isolationist multi-cultural cultural relativism.

As you may also know, I am an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and the author of fourteen published books which have sold approximately 4-5 million copies worldwide, My work has been translated into many European languages (French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Spanish) and into Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. In the past, I was a regular contributor and interviewee at all the major mainstream media. Today, my work on Israel, anti-Semitism, jihad, and Islamic gender and religious apartheid have found no publishing homes abroad.

In the last decade, my work as an Israel advocate, an anti-jihad and pro-American journalist-activist, and as a scholar of Islamic gender and religious apartheid, has gained a serious, increasingly respectful, sometimes even reverent audience. I publish regularly at FOX News, Israel National News, Middle East Quarterly, Frontpage, The Jewish Press, and The Jewish Week. For the last five years I blogged regularly at Pajamas Media and at my website (http://www.phyllis-chesler.com) draws more than 100,000 visitors per year from 170 countries on every continent , including readers from 36 Muslim-majority countries. In addition, many of my articles go viral on the internet and are routinely picked up by 50-100 websites. A single article of mine can reach anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 readers.

However, over the last decade, I alone bore the lion's share of subsidizing the costs involved in operating my small not-for-profit organization. I took no salary. I gradually impoverished myself. Authors do not earn money by publishing books which slowly or rarely ever earn out their advances; and the advances rarely cover one's research costs. A writer does not write books for money. Writing on the internet pays very little and often pays nothing at all. I view such writing as a civic virtue and a public service.

For the last three years, I have been privileged to have had two main donors who together have covered almost half of my operating costs. Those costs include a webmaster, a research assistant, a 24/7 computer troubleshooter, rental of a small office, the cost of utilities, office supplies, equipment, etc.

I now face a crisis. One of my two major donors has just had his own funding cut. And, understandably, many philanthropists are planning to put their money down on the next American presidential race. I can't blame them but I wish they understood that work such as mine will be very helpful in that area.

If my basic operating costs (above) are not covered I must, with great regret and sorrow, cut back if not shut down completely. I cannot bring myself to say that I will resign. There is really no one to take my place.

On the other hand, after 9-10 years, many large and small grassroots organizations and individual bloggers have begun to repeat my lines and my analysis as well as those of the handful of other bloggers and journalists who started out as lonely, pioneer voices at the same time. Thus, perhaps I am no longer needed in quite the same way. True, I am a trailblazer and could potentially continue to explore as yet uncharted territory. But I cannot do so without partners. I cannot do so alone.

Why has funding eluded me? Like a handful of other important contemporary voices, I, too, am not a Company Woman or a herd animal; I am an independent thinker. I do not play to the crowd for the sake of money, security, or mere attention. These virtues are actually handicaps in the competition for funding. Being older, being a woman, being a feminist, being a Zionist, being an American patriot, being the author of fifteen books, being a retired academic with standards in an internet age—being all of these things at once—also functions as a handicap, not an advantage.

True, my lack of proper funding is also my own fault. I did not choose to slow down, publish fewer articles, do fewer studies, introduce fewer people to each other, conceive of fewer activist projects in order to become a full-time or even part-time fundraiser. Many people do just that because it is required. But we were and still are at war and I chose to get the work done, to remain at my post.

It is also true that because of fragile health, I could not appear at many conferences, banquets, and rallies to use these events to network for fundraising purposes. Again, I remained on duty at my computer. Perhaps one cannot compete for funding without being all things to all people—and in person, in the flesh. If so, I take responsibility for my failure to raise the operating expenses without which I cannot function. But I did try. How I tried. And, here I am talking mainly about the pre-economic meltdown period, before Mr. Madoff gutted many Jewish organizations and individuals of every faith.

I knocked on many, many doors for financial support but found none. To my surprise and sorrow, when I first published The New Anti-Semitism, one large Jewish-American organization immediately saw me as unholy competition and not only closed their doors to me but intentionally interfered with my ability to support my work by delivering paid lectures. Despite my increasing visibility, other large Jewish organizations did not approach me, and when I mentioned to their various presidents and directors that I needed funding, it was as if I had never spoken.

When I approached various "Kings of the Jews," all of whom praised my work to high heaven, they either did not answer my requests for funding advice and assistance or sent me on to foundations that never returned my letters or which turned me down flat. One very supportive Prince among men told me to call a particular foundation that specializes in contemporary anti-Semitism. When I did so (in late 2010), the woman in charge told me that she had never heard of me, was not familiar with my work, and that I was not allowed to call her or to send her any of my articles.

Individual pro-Israel philanthropists (multi-millionaires, some billionaires) asked me to deliver speeches for them which I did; they also consulted me; their compliments and praise humbled me. Not a single good soul understood how much time went into researching and writing each piece or lecture; perhaps they thought I was in a trance channeling God and thus, none of my admirers ever undertook to fund my operating expenses. And I asked them to do so, how I asked. What I did not do was beg or emotionally manipulate them.

The Israeli government did not view the War of Ideas as important until only a few months ago. Thus, although I publish in the Jewish and Israeli media, I remain completely unsupported by the Israeli government, which has never led me to any Jewish philanthropists outside of Israel.

Christian Evangelical groups thanked me profusely for my work and told me that they were using it to educate their flock but that their funding efforts had to remain within the Church.

The various conservative think tanks which I approached also complimented me on my work (and invited me to deliver unpaid lectures, which I did). However, they said they could not fund my work and that I could not be affiliated with them unless I brought in a huge "dowry" of my own.

The mainly conservative media outlets for whom I write pay very little (some pay nothing at all) for articles that may take anywhere from two to eight hours each to research and write. Requests for better payment and/or for a grant from these valuable websites and organizations have not been successful.

I have done the first and only major academic studies about honor killing; both appear in Middle East Quarterly and at my own website. I and am now at work on a third such study. I have been condemned by many western feminists for this work. No feminist group, individual, or philanthropist has funded this work, nor have they funded my coverage of Islamic gender apartheid in both Muslim-majority countries and in the West. This includes Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and ex-Muslim feminists and anti-jihad activists who frequently quote from my work and who privately acknowledge it. My work on behalf of girls and women in flight from being honor murdered and who are seeking asylum in the United States has similarly gone unfunded.

This work, which I have undertaken with my whole heart and mind is a crucial part of defending Western values, defending both America and Israel, defending the human rights of women, Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents, and religious minorities trapped under Muslim rule. It also constitutes bridge-building and is meant to address the "hearts and minds" of those who live in the West and those who live in jihadic civilizations.

The good news is this: In addition to the advances for my recent books (again, such advances do not even cover the cost of one's research assistant), in the last eight years, four people donated $5000 one-time-only grants, two people donated $500 apiece, and one kind soul donated a one-time grant of $1000. About fifteen to twenty readers sent checks via paypal for amounts ranging from $10 - $500 Several supporters ardently desired to help me raise funding but since they are not professional fundraisers or people with disposable incomes, nothing came of it.

Together, my two major donors have gifted me with a total of $40,000-$50,000 per year for the last three years. Given current funding and investment realities, this will soon be significantly decreased. My operating expenses come to approximately $100,000-$125,000 a year, with no salary to me.

Of course, I still have many pro-Israel and anti-jihad projects to work on. I cannot do so without funding. I also have a new book to promote (it is about custody and divorce) and a very important new book to research and write, tentatively titled: My Afghan Memoir. I have been wanting to do so for nearly fifty years. There is absolutely no guarantee that I will find a publisher or that it will earn out its advance. I am not being pessimistic; I am an utter realist about such matters. Authors require philanthropic funding unless they are young and healthy enough to work in the proverbial garret and are willing to starve while they write.

If any of my readers are—or know—philanthropists who are familiar with my work and are willing to partner with me financially, I will be forever grateful. I do not expect this to happen, but I am "putting it out there."

Ten-twelve donors who can each write a check for $10,000 each year will keep me visible and influential. Twenty--twenty five donors who can each write a check for $5,000 will work just as well. One hundred donors who can each write a check for $1,000 would be equally superb.

It has been a privilege to serve on the front lines in the war of ideas in these most Orwellian of times. I regret nothing. But I cannot continue to fight a "Yom Kippur" war without weapons, boots, or food. I must step back until or unless suitable funding can be found.

I welcome your ideas and am grateful for all the support you have shown my work.

All best,

Phyllis Chesler

Of all the Jews who hate their fellow Jews, possibly the most despicable are the hypocritical, righteous kind. While there are plenty of reasons to criticize the Israeli government, Israel’s right to protect itself and not allow shipments of arms, rockets and explosives into Gaza is unquestionable. Furthermore Israel does not restrict humanitarian aid flow into Gaza, it just insists on delivery of all goods to the nearby ports of Ashdod, or Alexandria (Egypt), where ships can be checked for weapons meant to be deployed against Israel’s citizens and only the legitimate humanitarian aid to be trucked into Gaza, together with the daily flow of goods from Israel into the Palestinian territories.

Let us check some facts our missionary local Jewry prefers to ignore: In August 2005, Israel completely withdrew from Gaza. While right wing activists insisted on demolishing the high tech greenhouses that housed the thriving strawberry industry, which counted for 40 percent of Gaza’s economy, others resisted. $14 million were privately raised by Israelis and American Jews, who bought the greenhouses and donated them to the Palestinians. However, on the day the Israelis pulled out, the Gazans, with their ingrained hatred, smashed the greenhouses because they were once owned by Jews. Within 36 hours it was all gone. So where do you get the audacity to blame Israel for their high unemployment? Lack of housing? Or health services?

Hamas spent millions of dollars on rockets, but not a penny on building roads, hospitals, housing, or a school. In fact when you get off the boat visit Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, or the hospital in Beer Sheva and see how many Palestinians are being treated for free, while the Israeli tax payers foot the bill. Is that human rights violation, or humanitarian care? Israelis pay for Gazans’ health services, while they spend their money on death.

Arabs are unhappy in Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Alger, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain and Tunis. I guess you’d fault Israel for that as well. Khaddafi and Assad blame everyone but themselves for their mess, so does Hamas in Gaza. I hope you get a good cup of coffee on the boat, because you need to wake up and smell the truth. And if you get tired of the boat, you can simply walk to Gaza via Egypt, the road is open. Even better, unload your ship in Sudan, where genocide continues for more than a decade and pour your compassionate heart into a true and just cause.

Mirav Ozeri
Mt. Tremper