The Birthright Project brings young Jews from the Diaspora to two weeks free vacation in Israel. The pic shows them in the Dead Sea. A study finds that
...the interaction of tour participants with one another is discouraging: Like all American teenagers, American Jewish teenagers tend to be ignorant about the world and saturated with pop culture, they call the intifada - “the enchilada.” Birthright do not indoctrinate because the teenagers aren’t paying attention - they are more interested in sex and drinking than in politics and religion. The program is practically designed to encourage hooking up among the participants. No wonder it has earned the nickname “Birthrate Israel”— which is, come to think of it, not a bad description of the program’s ultimate goal.The son of a friend in Hungary arrived with the program and I invited him to spend a weekend with us and gave him a personal VIP tour. He enjoyed so much the company that he moved to Israel. My idea was to "hook" him to one of my daughters, because he is from a very good family, has a Ph.D. and looks extremely well. When I applied pressure to make him invite her to go out, his face turned grey and disgusted, as if he was going to vomit. He bacame a very happy member of Jerusalem homosexual community and mails me pictures of picnics and demonstrations. This nice Jewish boy will not increase Israel's birthrate.
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I, too, am discovering my birthright, and got off the boat in Haifa today. Within two hours, somebody had discovered THEIR birthright to my bike, which I had travelled 4000 incident-free km with across the Balkans, Turkey and Cyprus. (Borat voice) "With the Jew claw! They take!"
Has anyone in the Jewish world yet examined the way Birthright funds are being spent and the cost effectiveness of these programs? Though I know of a few Birthright alumni who have made Aliyah and/or married other Jews, I don't know of any reason to doubt that they would have done so anyway. I wonder how much money has been spent on Birthright in the past decade and whether the Jewish community has gotten anything for its money.
B,
Half of Haifa's population is Arab, and three-quarters of its bycicle fans.
If you want an advice, rent an airconditioned car. It is very hot outside.
"When I applied pressure to make him invite her to go out, his face turned grey and disgusted, as if he was going to vomit. He bacame a very happy member of Jerusalem homosexual community and mails me pictures of picnics and demonstrations."
LOL, I was wondering where that was going.
"This nice Jewish boy will not increase Israel's birthrate."
Why not? Some gays raise kids, and more might do it if it were made easier. You could start an organization linking up gays and lesbians who want to have kids (if one doesn't exist already).
J,
if I don't get it back in the next two days, a car it is. What's Haifa's Finest' record on bicycle recovery look like?
It's not hot. Compared to southern Turkey, it's balmy.
Many years ago (more than 30) I took a youth bus tour in Israel. There was much hooking up going on and the tour guide himself apparently selected one girl from each group to be his "temporary wife" (as the Iranians put it) for the duration of the tour. It sounded like a good job to me.
Maybe in the old days (before birth control) such a tour would increase the birth rate but nowadays we have separated sex from reproduction - the more we have of the former, the less we have of the latter, it seems.
K
B,
In my town, the police once a year organizes an exposition of all the abandoned/recovered bycicles and sends out invitations to all those whose bycicle was stolen during the year and registered the loss with the police.
We had two brand new bycicles stolen but the police found/recovered only rundown worthless machines.
Maybe you are luckier.
Dave,
Jerusalem is the holy city of three religions, so it is chock-full of holy people, priests and padres. It has also a very large population of pious ultra religious Haredi Jews, where men marry at 18. And another large population of fanatic Muslims. For all of them, same gender sex is the most terrible sin, pubishable with death by stoning. It is a steaming pressure cooker of Freudian repression.
They tell me that there is a very intense secret night life in Jerusalem. Even during the intifada.
It is obvious to me and everyone that the religious obsession with homosexuality reveals what religion is really for, which is to safeguard the reproduction of the community.
Homosexuality is clearly a threat to that, although I believe it too has an indirect reproductive purpose, in that I suspect their sisters are hypersexual and in the days before the pill, had more children, and which were guaranteed to be theirs. This would more than compensate for the lack of children born to the homosexual male brother, and in any event, which father can really be sure of his paternity?
This, if true, would be an example of the victory of the X chromosome over the Y chromosome.
Anon.
"The program is practically designed to encourage hooking up among the participants. No wonder it has earned the nickname “Birthrate Israel”— which is, come to think of it, not a bad description of the program’s ultimate goal."
Hahaha. That's really funny. You see, this is why all those theories about Jews are bullshit. We're far too openly cynical to successfully pursue "ethnic interests".
Hi-Tech Guy,
The fact that we can regard ourselves from a distance and laugh makes us even more dangerous...
I agree w. J. - the humorless, blustering macho Arab approach to self analysis ultimately backfires - if you claim that you will inflict the "mother of all battles" on your enemy you may end up in the bottom of a spider hole or at the end of a hangman's rope.
K
The people in the picture look like they have all been swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
Anon.
Anon,
The people are covered with real Dead Sea mud, with high sulphur content and considered good for the skin (it is). Cures or alliviates excema. Many pinkish Russians come to the Dead Sea and they like it.
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