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Joseph i don’t think that’s a good excuse. You can’t compare what happens in Israel to anti semitism in a different land. No matter what in Israel you know that the land belongs to you as promised by Hashem. Noone can rightfully throw you out. And no matter the political views, there is an army that would fight to protect you whether your a tzioni or anti. But in lands that don’t belong to us it is much scarier and on a worse scale. There is noone to protect you in fact those who protect come after you. And there is nothing you can do. It’s actually scary how real this is right now. We are seeing a global rise in anti semitism. Global. Usually there was always a land to escape to whenever we were thrown out. But America is the last land. So what now?

PS. Anti semitism is alive and well in Australia as much as anywhere else.

Crazy how? I wrote a piece responding to gadol and froggie and it was never published. So I’m the crazy one. Not crazy, just frustrating when someone writes something and it simply gets deleted. Thanks for the kind words though. Shows a lot about your middos.

speaking of middos, it’s possible the mod who deleted didn’t like your own unkind words. {shrugs}

Don’t you just love it when you take the time to write something well though out, responding to everyone, keeping it on point and clean, and the mods simply delete your comment? Great going mods does it make you feel like a better person? Yes you are so powerful picking and choosing.

are you crazy?

Froggie it’s a shame how much in denial you are. Or just very naive to the reality like most people are for now until they realize just how much private information everyone has on them.

@LF- “There’s a slight difference between being cautious and paranoid. <<HEY SHIMON, YOUR FACE LOOKS…>>”

I’m not sure what you meant by that last part. But regarding paranoid and cautious, there is no paranoid it’s reality. In fact people aren’t paranoid enough since it’s such worse than people think

RebYid- strong point and one of the main reasons as to why this is pretty much unavoidable. Something isn’t right though. People have to trade in their private lives simply because the world evolved into an era where this is how things work and you must be reliant on these things.

Yserbius12- ”

I’m bothered by it. But I recognize that there’s little I can do. So I try my best. Most of my browsing is on incognito mode. I don’t use my real name on any social media. I buy from a variety of online and brick+mortar retailers. I never use store credit cards.
Basically, as long as you’re happy living like it’s 1998, you have nothing to worry about.”

Ya so heres the thing my friend. Incognito mode and the like actually attracts more attention than using the regular browsing mode. Its sure to put you on a surveillance list. And even all these private browsing methods and settings such as ” do not send feedback” usually are useless as google and facebook have been caught still collecting private info no matter what.

You dont use your real name on social media? Great going except for the fact that im sure you have photos, friends, and conversations where people either tag you in a photo using your real name, or much more than your name gets collected in various chats,posts,pictures,videos,voice messages and so on. Just because you forget about the conversation the moment its over, doesnt mean these data mining companies do. They see everything, they know everything, and they keep everything. You would certainly be shocked if you saw even 2 days worth of your history and how revealing each bit of information is about you.

If you buy things from stores im hoping your using cash because otherwise I dont see a difference than buying online. Aside for companies selling your info and habits, they use internet as well. So even if they did want to guard your info they cant since they get hacked just as Chase did several years ago with many accounts private info compromised.

Nothing to worry about if you live like in 1998? As long as you have a smartphone or computer your whole life is being recorded, data wise, audio,video, contacts, family, passwords, habits,lifestlye,work,LOCATION, private conversations etc. the list goes on and on and gets more chilling. Even if you didnt own any of these if you are ever around them theres no escape. It gets pretty obvious when every other day google releases some other product with an embedded camera or microphone which they “forgot” to mention is included in the product.

Long ago people would criticize someone as being a tin foiled hat lunatic, but unfortuantely it is reality. You can check reputable tech sites,CNET etc. Just look at the app permissions which are so irrelevant to the app functionality.The thing is that even if you abandon all these gadgets, the damage is done, its too late. And since its part of our daily use, companies are getting smarter and smarter collecting data with new methods of spying and it all gets saved forever. Im surprised there isnt more uproar about our privacy but people either know they cant do anything or just dont care. A great excuse is “well I dont do anything to make me worried”. Oh really? Do you close the door when you enter the bathroom? Why? You are doing nothing wrong. Well the point is that people want and NEED privacy and anything can be used against you and Im sure people would be shocked how apps and companies and government are recording the most private of conversations in the safety of their own homes. Ever used your phone in the bathroom? Well closing the door wont keep them out anymore. You are never alone. And it only gets worse.

Sam that doesn’t mean you want the whole world to record and save every one of your movements as well.

Joseph-Crown Heights has always been terrorized by the black neighbors I mean thats pretty much inevitable since the surrounding neighborhoods are anything but Jewish. Im talking about shuls being targeted, windows being shattered, and swastikas along with anti Jewish slogans appearing all over the city and in public parks. There have been many cases over the past year.
Hopefully this will stop soon, but again these things always start out slow and seem to be under control so its very easy to ignore them as we’ve always done in the past. Best to at least be alert and try to do something to stop them before they get out of control. Where are the Jewish political figures?

rebetzin-“I ask you “writer” if you consider it a “private facility” that infamous town in Mississippi that had prominently displayed a placard at the entrance of the town”etc

im surprised mods allowed the N word. But youre forgetting something. Mississippi and the southern states in general were always know to be extremely racist and anti semitic. Youre also forgetting that there are pretty much no Jews living in those areas. You are also forgetting that these incidents are happening in NYC. Were there also signs of NO DOGS NO JEWS in storefronts on the lower east side back in the day? I know Yidden were threatened to get fired for not working on Shabbos but that rule applied to everyone.

Joseph-“The biggest self-caused antisemitism (meaning limiting this comment to discussing the antisemitism triggered by Jewish actions) is when Jews try to integrate into non-Jewish society or are otherwise embarrassed to clearly and openly display their Jewishness or aspects thereof.”

I absolutely agree. And you are right we shouldnt have any interest in joining private clubs or organizations which we have nothing to do with. Not sure why so many examples of that are being brought up. Honestly even College/University is a questionable place for a Yid but what other way to get a degree in todays money draining world.

This name is aready taken by a nutcase

Rebetzin what gives you such a feeling that we are protected. You do know that lehavdil no one could ever imagine such things happen in Germany right? There was a great sense of protection.

And ctlawyer and rebetzin, you are giving specific examples of exclusive facilities that were strict on who they let join which also applied to blacks and other foreigners who weren’t white I’m sure. But it’s more personal when you see these slogans in local parks and college campuses. You don’t even see anything like that today against blacks or other “minorities” who have had an ugly past in America as well. There would have been an uproar. All I’m saying is there is definitely a surge in the world including in the US.

@1 and @ Joseph
Yes there were times of anti semitism especially by the Holocaust where fdr sent a ship full of Jews back to the German slaughterhouses. And also there was Charles Lindbergh with the famous anti semitic “America first” slogan which Trump proudly adopted and doubled down on even when asked by Jewish organizations repeatedly not to use it. He clearly knew what it stood for which at the time meant to “worry” for America and not get involved for the Jews being murdered in Europe.

Here is a quote from an article- Lindbergh poured particular ire on the Jews. “Jewish groups in this country,” he told the crowd, should realize that in the event of war “they will be among the first to feel its consequences.” Individual Jews, he concluded, presented a unique danger to the United States because of their “large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government.”

Coincidence Trump rhetoric? And is it also heartwarming to know that Trump reportedly kept a book of the German demons speeches by his bedside to draw influence from?

The point is ya there were cases of hate speech in America by the time of the Holocaust, which I’m not sure is so calming to parallel that with our times. But again this is 2019 where hatred towards groups is not tolerated which makes this worse. But apparently it’s ok if it’s geared towards the weak defenseless Jews. And now you see individuals taking things into their own hands and not just certain political figures riling up crowds and speaking as they wish even though thats something that’s happening as well.
I’m not too sure that there was ever such a volume and frequency of anti semitic attacks in the USA which is why they are considered to be at an all time high.
And with corrupt media brainwashing the young, social media, and such communication these things are spreading like wildfire.

Really Neville? Writings of NO JEWS ALLOWED and smashing windows of shuls? Ya definitely trolling.Theres a reason why they say its at an all time high.

so noone is bothered by this. ok. maybe the title isnt provocative enough or maybe people just cant face these facts.

It’s funny how we rely on the lowest of yeridas hadoros meaning present times and feel somehow we have perfected things more than when they actually were perfect. The fact that it seems we are more stringent on things is mostly because of issues we ran into regarding technology interfering with Shabbos and etc..and constantly have to creatively maneuver around these issues and make it work. So in a way maybe it requires more effort but are we better than the earlier generations? Knives or the like I mean you can’t really compare present day tech with those days. Besides we only “perfected” things based on original methods and capitalized on them. It’s interesting though if everything was good enough back then why did we have to “fix” things? We also caused a lot of problems for ourselves. What happened to אל תהי צדיק יותר מדי? Exactly for that reason. When there’s so much siyag if you fail on the siyag you feel you actually transgressed the original commandment and it just goes downhill from there. 400 conflicting opinions for each tzivuy rather than 1 halacha lemoshe misinai. And we have it better?

iacisrmma-“and for what reason do you think it is assur?”

-You mean all of the above? For one thing arent we not allowed to have images especially silver idol like of animals or anything? I mean many idol worshipping “religions” have false gods depicted as animals or even are animals. Secondly cant these things be a distraction when they are painted on a wall or embroidered on to a covering when you cant miss them? Its just odd since we know not to even hang up pictures of people/animals in a shul for these reasons.