What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common?

[spdrun]

If his policies in Israel were any guide, he’s quite a bit more hawkish than Bernanke — he cut interest rates in 2008, then raised them quickly. I’d assume that people here would want someone with more of a hawkish bias than the current crop of clowns.

If you want to argue, argue the policies rather than playing to medieval religious prejudices.

[FlyerInHi]

How does the conspiracy go again? Obama is the Muslim who puts Jews, and the former chair of the bank of Israel at that, in charge of our money supply. And we are selling out to Iran?

I’m a little confused now.

[spdrun]

But we all know that they are really just pretending to hate each other to distract good Jeebus-fearin’ Christians from the true agenda of world domination.

[backintown]

Whereas most religions actively seek to recruit people to share their beliefs and to belong in their communities, this one screens out and often forbids people from joining their faith on the sole basis of genetic ancestry and ethnic background. Who can get away with this kind of behavior these days? Isn’t this blatant racial discrimination? I wonder why/how this doesn’t even raise an eyebrow in our media.

Membership of this highly selective club (0.2% of the world population) must carry its benefits…

Interesting related article by the British magazine The Economist:

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21593507-competing-answers-increasingly-pressing-question-who-jew

[SK in CV]

[quote=backintown]Whereas most religions actively seek to recruit people to share their beliefs and to belong in their communities, this one screens out and often forbids people from joining their faith on the sole basis of genetic ancestry and ethnic background. Who can get away with this kind of behavior these days? Isn’t this blatant racial discrimination? I wonder why/how this doesn’t even raise an eyebrow in our media.

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The media doesn’t raise an eyebrow because it’s a bigoted lie. Jews don’t steal children for sacrifice either.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=backintown]Whereas most religions actively seek to recruit people to share their beliefs and to belong in their communities, this one screens out and often forbids people from joining their faith on the sole basis of genetic ancestry and ethnic background. Who can get away with this kind of behavior these days? Isn’t this blatant racial discrimination? I wonder why/how this doesn’t even raise an eyebrow in our media.

Membership of this highly selective club (0.2% of the world population) must carry its benefits…
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What? That’s just dumb. Anyone can convert to Judaism, the religion. You can’t convert to being of “Jewish” ancestry/genetics, just like you can’t convert to being of any particular genetics.

I’m going to need you to knock off the Jew-bashing… I don’t want this kind of garbage on my site.

[ucodegen]

[quote=Rich Toscano]What? That’s just dumb. Anyone can convert to Judaism, the religion. You can’t convert to being of “Jewish” ancestry/genetics, just like you can’t convert to being of any particular genetics.

I’m going to need you to knock off the Jew-bashing… I don’t want this kind of garbage on my site.[/quote]
Part of his statement is actually correct (A part only). There is a small group of Jewish who believe that you have to have both the faith and the genetic background to be ‘truly’ a Jew or of Gods ‘chosen’. It is a form of elitism.

As for why they rise in the ranks of power, it has nothing to do with being ‘Jewish’. It is likely because a Jewish mother seems to be ‘related’ to the Asian Tiger Mom. Slacking off in your studies is not tolerated, and ‘you are going to be a doctor if I have to haunt you from the grave!’. If you have not become a doctor, than you are a disgrace to the family.

You don’t plan for success and become successful by playing video games and goofing off. A Jewish child’s spare time is taken with piano/music lessons, foreign language, and accelerated learning (fundamentals including hard science vs the fuzzy soft stuff now taken for science in many schools). — Hard work, not slacking off, brings success.

As for the final statement

Membership of this highly selective club (0.2% of the world population) must carry its benefits…

It does. Look up lack of genetic diversity and what it causes. Being 0.2% of population and restricting marriage to only that group causes in-breading and all that comes with it. I think the group that believes in both the genetic and the religious aspect are the Ashkenazi (though that line is also starting to blur – Reform movement). Terms to look up:
Jewish inbreeding
Endogamy
Jewish chosenness
Haredi Judaism
Ashkenazi diseases
Tay-Sachs
Gaucher’s disease
..

closing this as: “Jews in the family Tree, though myself not a Jew”.

[scaredyclassic]

You’re welcome to come convert to Judaism, but we are definitely not coming to your door or going to encourage you. That said, it’s going to be hard to replicate the level of post holocaust Jewish mother level of guilt in your psyche just by getting familiar with a few prayers. But I’d be willing to help try to instill this in you for a low fee…

[ucodegen]

[quote=scaredyclassic]You’re welcome to come convert to Judaism, but we are definitely not coming to your door or going to encourage you. That said, it’s going to be hard to replicate the level of post holocaust Jewish mother level of guilt in your psyche just by getting familiar with a few prayers. But I’d be willing to help try to instill this in you for a low fee…[/quote]I thought it was the Catholic mother that dealt in the high psyche guilt level, particularly guilt instilled during adolescence and pubescent periods of development.

[CA renter]

[quote=ucodegen]

As for why they rise in the ranks of power, it has nothing to do with being ‘Jewish’. It is likely because a Jewish mother seems to be ‘related’ to the Asian Tiger Mom. Slacking off in your studies is not tolerated, and ‘you are going to be a doctor if I have to haunt you from the grave!’. If you have not become a doctor, than you are a disgrace to the family.

[/quote]

While I agree that there is some truth to the “tiger mom” part, it is also very true that at the elite levels, Jews tend to favor other Jews when hiring or promoting…this is understood in their community. This is one of the reasons that Hitler was able to do what he did; there was a lot of indifference WRT the Jewish people in Germany because after WWI, the few jobs that existed (many stores, etc. were owned by Jews) tended to go to other Jews before they went to non-Jewish Germans.

I used to work for a fairly powerful group of Israeli Jews, and they were very open about the fact that Jewish people were always going to be given priority. They were very good to me because I had done a lot for them over the years (and the fact that I’m part Jewish helped, even though I’m not a practicing Jew), but I was one of the very few people from outside of the formal “Jewish community” who was treated so well.

[NotCranky]

Seems almost universal that people surround themselves with other people like themselves whenever they can get away with it. Deriving some kind of benefit seems like the logical goal of acting in this way. Actually, it’s obvious.

We have laws against arranging things based on ethnicity, religion or other standards in certain types of institutions, so, I don’t think questioning appearances when they don’t reflect our current standard of integration is all that awful.

[CA renter]

Agreed, most people do this to some extent. The Jewish people are a tiny minority of the world’s population and have been persecuted throughout history. They want to be sure that their ethnic and religious identity and traditions are able to survive over time. I get why they do it, but agree that we should be able to question the ethical and moral issues surrounding it, too.

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