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The Jewish Rifle & Pistol Club

Posted on October 25, 2015 | Comments Off on The Jewish Rifle & Pistol Club

Mr. Boy and I spent this morning at the Best of the West Shooting Sports range near Liberty Hill in Williamson County. It was the first meeting of the new Jewish Rifle & Pistol Club of Central Texas. Twelve experienced shooters and two novices showed up. Total membership, however, is thirty.

We all got membership cards with the engraved reminder from Leviticus: “Don’t stand by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.” Which is interesting. There is no requirement to rescue in American jurisprudence. The latter is about rights. Jewish religious law is about obligations. And probably a majority of American Jews are anti-gun. But as one of the club’s leaders expressed it in a recent issue of the local Jewish Outlook: “It’s not for everyone, but there should be someone.”

It was also interesting to meet the number of club members with Texas concealed-carry licenses. One, a Round Rock retiree, said he doesn’t carry all the time, just on special occasions such as the High Holy Days, when he wants to be ready to stop any schmuck who decides it would be a perfect time to take out a bunch of Jews. Those of the Islamic persuasion being the most likely to get the urge.

A few of us didn’t stick around to shoot after meeting everyone and having a group picture taken. The wind was strong, there was intermittent light rain and the temperature was only in the upper 50s. Happily what was initially billed as only an annual event will now be monthly. And the late fall in Texas often is warm. So next time…

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Shut down Al Aqsa

Posted on October 15, 2015 | 2 comments

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When mosques become military installations used to store weapons (ever lost an eye or half your brain to a flying chunk of concrete?) they deserve to be shuttered & demolished. And so with Al Aqsa (the interior shown above), the pretend site of Mighty Mo’s ascension to heaven on a flying horse. Or some such mystical twaddle.

Sure the Arab world will go ape-shit, but they already do now every time one of their half-wit, goat-f**king brethren raises the cry that the dreaded Jews want to desecrate Al Aqsa by, get this, praying there. Either shut it down and suffer the inevitable bloodletting, but with a definite end in sight, or continue Dayan’s Folly and the death of a thousand cuts forever.

Via Simply Jews

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, back at the White House, our prevaricator-in-chief is lying: “As the number of Israelis murdered during a streak of Palestinian terrorism continues to rise, the Obama administration sought to equate the sides and told reporters that, in its view, Israel is guilty of terrorism.”

In our view, the Obama administration is guilty of stupidity.

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Let the murderous Pallys have their state

Posted on October 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Let the murderous Pallys have their state

Then, when they start knifing Israelis, shooting at cars on Israel’s highways or launching missiles like their buds in Gaza, bomb them into the stone age.

“…this seemingly complex conflict has only two simple, practical solutions. The first is to agree with Abbas that Oslo is dead, and act swiftly and mercilessly against the terrorist cells that launch or inspire those who stab, shoot, and blow up Jews….

“…the second practical solution: the unilateral disengagement plan…unilaterally annex a thin strip of the West Bank. Annex it, and annex the Jordan Valley, too…

“Israeli Arabs who deeply resent living in a Jewish state—like the scum who sipped his soft drink as innocents were being stabbed in front of his eyes in Jerusalem the other day, or the shopkeepers who laughed and spat at a wounded Jewish woman seeking shelter for herself and her toddler—could opt to move to the other side of the fence…”

Where these darlings of  the West’s leftist news media fascists could wallow in their own Muslim kleptocracy. It won’t satisfy them or the Dictator’s Club (aka the United Nations), but so what? When they have a state, treat them like any other foreign power. If they attack, declare war like any state would and bomb them mercilessly.

Via Tablet Magazine

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Pol drinks from Pope’s used water glass

Posted on September 26, 2015 | 2 comments

The irreligious will find it “kinda weird” as Insty headlines what has turned into a commenter marathon on supernatural religion. And I suppose it is, up to a point.

But Catholics aren’t the only ones who do this. Jews, too, venerate the objects touched/used by famous rabbis, pilgrimage to their graves and pray there. Including the Kotel (the western wall of the Temple Mount) where the old joke is that prayer is a local call.

A joke that’s passing on now that fewer understand what a “local call” is.

Via Instapundit.

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Israel’s 9/11 Memorial

Posted on September 18, 2015 | Comments Off on Israel’s 9/11 Memorial

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The Palestinians, along with many other Arabs, danced in the streets on 9/11. Our Israeli friends did not and they used some Twin Towers steel to make this memorial.

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Shana tova ve metuka: Happy and Sweet New Year

Posted on September 14, 2015 | Comments Off on Shana tova ve metuka: Happy and Sweet New Year

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The Grammar of God

Posted on September 13, 2015 | 3 comments

Aviya Kushner’s gentle, engaging prose in The Grammar of God pulls you along on what might at first seem to be a nitpicking journey into the words of the Bible, in its original Hebrew and its subsequent translations into various languages, principally English in the best-known King James Version of 1611.

Then it turns compelling. You discover such “mistranslations,” or perhaps intentional choices, as in the Commandment (in the English KJV) not to kill. Which has occasioned more than 400 years of conscientious objection to war.

In the original Hebrew the word is murder. “In biblical Herbew,” Kushner writes, “there is a gaping difference between the verb ‘to kill’—laharog—and the verb ‘to murder’—lirtzoach….This word choice matters because there are acceptable forms of killing in the Bible (such as self-defense).”

Moreover, “the phrase ‘the Ten Commandments’ appears nowhere in the Hebrew,” she concludes. It’s “the ten sayings.” Which makes it even more obvious that the KJV translators in particular and probably other translators of the Hebrew into Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, Chinese, etc., have brought their own interpretations to the text which millions rely on for spiritual guidance. Some of them on the exact wording.

Nevertheless, Kushner is at pains to forgive such issues: “Translators throughout time have faced impossible choices. They could not bring everything over in the great journey from Hebrew to another language—and maybe they didn’t want to.”

For such surprising discoveries alone the book is worth your time and money.

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