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Baruch Goldstein, Patron Saint of Israel
In order for you to understand just how vile, insane and immoral the State of Israel has become, there are a few things that should be said and known about the veneration of Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994) in jewish Israeli society today. His worshippers are to a large degree the numerous followers of jewish American mad 'rabbi' Meir Kahane (1932-1990) and his racist, fascist ideology. Kahanism is mainstream in Israel today and is represented in the Israeli government by jewish religious zionist extremist settlers turned ministers like:
- Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976), the current Minister of National Security and in charge of the Israel Police, the Border Police and the Israel Prison Service. He has been the party leader of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) since 2022. Son of a mother active in the Irgun terrorist organization. Previously convicted of supporting the Kach terrorist organization. Exempted from service in the IDF due to extremist political background. Lawyer known for representing far-right Jewish activists suspected of terrorism and hate crimes; most notably representing the American-born jewish extremist settler Baruch Marzel (b. 1956 in Boston, USA) in Hebron, the «right-hand man» of American-born rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990) and a fellow Otzma Yehudit party member. Known for displaying the portrait of American-born jewish extremist settler and terrorist mass-murderer Dr. Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994) in his living-room. Itamar Ben-Gvir has 6 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal jewish extremist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.
- Bezalel Smotrich (b. 1980), the current Minister of Finance and a minister in the Defense Ministry, in addition to being leader of the Higher Planning Committee of the Israeli Civil Administration (of the Occupied Territories) - an agency akin to the many different quasi-colonial german Reichskommissariat entities in nazi occupied countries and territories of Europe during WW2 - and in this capacity Smotrich is effectively being the man in charge of the ever ongoing escalation of illegal jewish settlement expansions in the West Bank.
- Orit Strook (b. 1960); who is the fourth and current ‘Minister of Settlements and National Missions’ in Israel. [Note: The first settlement minister (2020) was Tzipi Hotovely (b. 1978), the current vile Israeli ambassador to the UK. The third settlement minister (2021-2022) was Naftali Bennett (b. 1972); prime minister of Israel 2021-2022.]
Therefore, today I will present to you chapter 6 from the 2004 edition of the book Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, originally published in 1998 and written by the well-known Israeli human rights advocate and activist Israel Shahak (1933-2001) together with American historian Norton Mezvinsky (1932-2022):
Chapter 6: The Real Significance of Baruch Goldstein
The story of the massacre committed by Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994) in the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hebron on February 25, 1994, is well known. Goldstein entered the Muslim prayer hall and shot worshippers mostly in their backs, killing 29, including children, and wounding many more. In this chapter we shall not describe that massacre; rather we shall focus upon Goldstein’s career prior to the massacre and upon the reactions of the Israeli government and fundamentalist Jews to the massacre a short time after it occurred. This should provide a vivid illustration of Jewish fundamentalism. We shall extend our discussion of some details until the summer of 1998.
One important background fact about Goldstein exemplifies the influence of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel: long before the massacre, Goldstein as an army physician repeatedly breached army discipline by refusing to treat Arabs, even those serving in the Israeli army. He was not punished, either while in active or reserve service, for his refusal because of intervention in his favor. Political commentators discussed this story in the Hebrew press even though not a single Israeli politician referred to it. This story deserves detailed exploration in our analysis of Jewish fundamentalism.
In his March 1, 1994, Yedioth Ahronot article, Arych Kizel, a regular Davar correspondent, wrote that Goldstein, shortly after immigrating to Israel and as a conscript assigned to an artillery battalion in Lebanon as a doctor, refused to treat Gentiles. According to Kizel, Goldstein, after refusing to treat a wounded Arab, declared: “I am not willing to treat any non-Jew. I recognize as legitimate only two [religious] authorities: Maimonides (1138-1204) and Meir Kahane (1932-1990).” Kizel further reported:
Three Druze soldiers who served in Goldstein’s battalion approached their commander and asked for another doctor to be stationed in their battalion, because they were afraid that Goldstein would refuse to treat them in case they were wounded. Because of their request Goldstein was reassigned to another battalion. He continued to serve as a military doctor both in the conscript army and in the reserves. After some years he was reassigned to the regional Hebron brigade of the central command where he thereafter served his reserve stint. Immediately after receiving this assignment, he told his commanders that his religious faith would make it impossible for him to treat wounded or ill Arabs; he asked to be reassigned elsewhere. His request was granted, and he was reassigned to a reserve unit serving in South Lebanon.
Amir Oren, who subsequently became the military correspondent of Haaretz, provided the most complete story of Goldstein’s relations with the Israeli army and the entire Israeli political establishment in his March 4 Davar article. According to Oren, after the 1984 elections and the subsequent formation of the national unity government, then Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) and then Chief of Staff General Moshe Levi (1936-2008) learned about Goldstein’s refusal to treat non-Jews in Lebanon. Oren wrote:
When Goldstein’s refusal to treat non-Jewish patients became evident to his commanders, both the artillery corps and medical corps commanders quite naturally wanted to court-martial him and thus get rid of him. They took it for granted that this could be easily done, because Goldstein had graduated only from the army’s course for medical officers. [Goldstein did not have combat officer training, which is normally a prerequisite for admission to the course for medical officers.] The two corps [commanders] also knew that Goldstein, while attending the army’s course for medical officers, had become notorious as an anti-Arab extremist.
According to other Hebrew press reports, some of Goldstein’s trainee colleagues demanded that he be dismissed from the course; their demand was refused. Oren related: “[Goldstein] was already then protected by highly placed people in senior ministries. Those patrons requested that Goldstein be allowed to serve in Kiryat Arba rather than in a combat battalion.” The situation then developed into “a bone of contention between the commander of the army’s medical corps and its chief rabbi.” Oren continued:
In the end the issue of what to do with an officer who openly refused to obey orders by invoking Halakha has never been resolved, even if that officer openly refused to provide medical help both to Israeli soldiers and POWs. Can we avoid being stunned by the army’s failure to court-martial Goldstein? Why was no order to court-martial him ever issued by the entire chain of the army command? That chain of command included the commander of the northern command, Reserve General Ori Orr (b. 1939) [a Labor MK and later in 1994 the chairman of the Knesset Committee for Foreign and Defense Affairs], and General Amos Yaron (b. 1940), who now is the commander of the manpower department. Why did they refuse to decide without first consulting the chief rabbi? The already embarrassed medical corps [commanders] now [after the massacre] admit that they were scared by publicity that might have propelled the religious parties and religious settlers’ lobbies to make things more of a mess than ever before. The fear of publicity time after time prompted the army commanders to give in to all kinds of Goldsteins, rather than to denounce their views and court-martial them.
Many sources corroborated Oren’s hinting that this Goldstein situation did not constitute a unique case. The story told by Oren revealed the pervasiveness of the religious parties’ influence in the Israeli army. Jewish orthodoxy’s stance against non-Jews, as openly advocated by Goldstein’s idolized leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990), was – and still is – an essential position held by the major religious parties. As such, this stance has had a strong impact upon the Israeli army. Had Rabin and the army commanders mentioned by Oren, moreover, felt no affinity whatsoever with Kahane’s and Goldstein’s views, they would not have given in to the religious parties with such abandon and thus sacrificed all consideration of military discipline. Israeli policies, directed towards Palestinians, other Middle East Arabs (perceived by Zionists as non-Jews) and people of other nations, are only explainable by assuming that they are based upon anti-Gentile feeling. The anti-Gentile feeling is strongest among the most religious Jews but exists as well in this secular milieu. This is the reason why support for Goldstein in 1984 and 1985 had a sequel in the excuses by many Israeli leaders for the slaughter. These excuses were thinly disguised by mostly hypocritical expressions of shock.
Goldstein’s refusal to give proper medical treatment to non-Jews continued after he was transferred to Kiryat Arba. In his February 27,1994 Yediot Ahronot article, Nahum Barnea (b. 1944) wrote:
The senior Israeli army officer in the Hebron area told me about his two encounters with Baruch Goldstein. The second time he saw him was in the company of Kach goons who were abusing President Ezer Weizman (1924-2005) during his visit to Kiryat Arba. The first time he encountered Goldstein was after an Israeli soldier had wounded a local Arab in his legs. The Arab was brought to an army clinic for treatment, but Goldstein refused to treat him. Another army physician had to be summoned to substitute for Goldstein. The officer did not explain why Goldstein was thereafter not demoted in rank but was rather allowed to keep performing his duties in the reserves. Incidentally, his misconduct also constituted a violation of the oath he had taken upon becoming a doctor, but for this the Israeli army cannot be blamed.
Barnea made clear that the entire Israeli establishment, not just the army, was responsible for the leniency granted to Goldstein for his misdeeds. The leniency lasted until the massacre. Only after the massacre did the official line change to shock, coupled with assertions that Goldstein had acted alone. Thus, during the first three hours after the slaughter Rabin and his retinue insisted either that Goldstein was a psychopath or that he was a devoted doctor who happened to suffer a momentary derangement. Barnea reported: “Within hours a whole edifice of rationalization was built, according to which Goldstein had allegedly been under unbearable mental pressure, because he had to attend so many wounded and dead [persons], including Arabs.” The men who propagated this lie knew that Goldstein had refused to treat Arabs. Barnea continued: “Thus, the Arabs were made guilty for what he could not avoid doing. The implication was that the Arabs assaulted him rather than the other way around and that he really acted for the benefit of the Arabs by letting them finally realize that Jewish blood could not be shed with impunity.” This brazen lie was maintained as long as possible before being abandoned without apology. The propagation of such a lie reveals the influence of Jewish fundamentalism upon the secular parts of the Israeli establishment.
Goldstein represented Jewish fundamentalism in the extreme. Some of the Gush Emunim leaders at the time of the massacre were only a bit less extreme. Barnea compared Goldstein’s attitude toward non-Jews with that of Rabbi Moshe Levinger (1935-2015), the Gush Emunim leader whom he interviewed on the day of the massacre:
Levinger was in a good mood; after arguing about how religious settlers should respond to the massacre, he shortly before had won the three hour debate at a session of the Kiryat Arba municipality. The secretary of the Council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza District, Uri Ariel (b. 1952), [who became director of the prime minister’s office in 1998] proposed condemning the massacre. Levinger staked his authority behind the proposal that the [Israeli] government should instead be condemned [for putting Goldstein] under unbearable mental pressure [propelling him to action].
In the discussion the terms “murder,” “massacre” or “killing” were avoided; instead the terms used were “deed,” “event” or “occurrence.” The reason is that according to the Halakha the killing by a Jew of a non-Jew under any circumstances is not regarded as murder. It may be prohibited for other reasons, especially when it causes danger for Jews. In many cases the real feelings about a Jew murdering non-Jews, expressed in Israel with impunity, correspond to the law. Levinger told Barnea that the resolution “expresses in passing” the sorrow about dead Arabs “even though it emphasizes the responsibility of the government.” When asked by Barnea whether he felt sorry, Levinger answered: “I am sorry not only about dead Arabs but also about dead flies.”
Goldstein on principle had refused to treat non-Jews for many years before the massacre. He worked as the municipal doctor of Kiryat Arba and treated Arabs only when he could not avoid doing so. Barnea quoted one of Goldstein’s colleagues from the Kiryat Arba clinic who recalled that “whenever Goldstein arrived at a traffic accident spot and recognized that some of the injured were Arabs, he would attend to them but only until another doctor arrived. Then, he would stop treating them. ‘This was his compromise between his doctor’s oath and his ideology,’ said his colleague.”
The Halakha enjoins precisely the behavior of Goldstein’s refusing to attend non-Jews. The Halakha dictates that a pious Jewish doctor may treat Gentiles when his refusal to do so might be reported to the authorities and cause him or other Jews unpleasantness. There is reason to believe that whenever doctors as pious as Goldstein were forced to treat Arabs they behaved as did Goldstein. In his previously cited Yediot Ahronot article, Arych Kizel added that the Israeli army found that Goldstein’s conduct did not require any disciplinary measures. A Maariv correspondent wrote in his March 8, 1994 article that Goldstein’s military service record was sufficiently distinguished to earn him a ceremonial promotion from the rank of captain to that of major. The president of Israel would have officially awarded this promotion on May 14, 1994, Israel’s independence day. Only Goldstein’s death, which occurred at the time of the massacre, prevented what would have been a revealing promotion.
An even greater example of Jewish fundamentalism’s influence upon the secular part of the Israeli establishment can be detected in the official arrangement of Goldstein’s elaborate funeral at a time that the deliberate character of the massacre could not be denied. The establishment was affected by the fact, widely reported in the Hebrew press but given little place in the foreign press, that within two days of the massacre the walls of religious neighborhoods of west Jerusalem (and to a lesser extent of many other religious neighborhoods) were covered by posters extolling Goldstein’s virtues and complaining that he did not manage to kill more Arabs. Children of religious settlers who came to Jerusalem to demonstrate sported buttons for months after the massacre that were inscribed: “Dr Goldstein cured Israel’s ills.” Numerous concerts of Jewish religious music and other events often developed into demonstrations of tribute to Goldstein. The Hebrew press reported these incidents of public tribute in copious detail. No major politician protested against such celebrations.
President Ezer Weizman (1924-2005) expressed more extravagantly than others his sorrow for the massacre. Weizman, as reported by Uzi Benziman in his March 4, 1994 Haaretz article, was also engaged in lengthy and amiable negotiations with Goldstein’s family and Kach comrades concerning a suitably honorable funeral for the murderer. Kiryat Arba settlers, many of whom had already declared themselves in favor of the mass murder in radio and television interviews and had lauded Goldstein as a martyr and holy man, demanded that General Danny Yatom (b. 1945), the commander responsible for the Hebron area, allow the funeral cortege to parade through the city of Hebron, in order to be viewed by the Arabs even though a curfew existed. Yatom did not object outright to the demand but opposed it as something that could cause disorder. Tzvi Katzover [Note: worth investigating], the mayor of Kiryat Arba and one of the most extreme leaders of the religious settlers, telephoned Weizman and threatened that the settlers would make a pogrom of Arabs if their demands were not met. Weizman responded by telephoning the chief of staff and asking why the army opposed the demand of the settlers. According to Benziman, Chief of Staff Ehud Barak (b. 1942) answered: “The army was afraid that Arabs would desecrate Goldstein’s tomb and carry away his corpse.” In further negotiations involving Ehud Barak, Danny Yatom, Yitzhak Rabin, Kach leaders and Kiryat Arba settlers, Weizman assumed the consistent position, as stated by Benziman, that “the army should pay respect to the desires and sensibilities of the settlers and of the Goldstein family.” Ultimately, the negotiated decision was that a massively attended funeral cortege would take place in Jerusalem and that the police would close some of the busiest streets to the traffic in Goldstein’s honor. Afterwards, the murderer would be buried in Kiryat Arba along the continuation of Kahane Avenue. According to Benziman, Kach leaders at first rejected this compromise. General Yatom had to approach the Kach leaders in person and beg them abjectly for their agreement, which he finally secured. Yatom also had to obtain consent from the notorious Kiryat Arba rabbi, Dov Lior (b. 1933). As reported in the March 4, 1994, issue of Yerushalaim Lior declared: “Since Goldstein did what he did in God’s own name, he is to be regarded as a righteous man.” Benziman explained the conduct of Weizman and his entourage: “After the fact the officials of the presidential mansion justify those goings on by the need to becalm the settlers’ mood.” After the funeral the army provided a guard of honor for Goldstein’s tomb.
The tomb became a pilgrimage site, not only for the religious settlers but also for delegations of pious Jews from all Israeli cities.
The details of Goldstein’s funeral as arranged through the office of President Weizman are significant. The facts below were taken mostly from the Ilana Baum and Tzvi Singer report, published in Yedioth Ahronot on February, 28 1994. The funeral’s first installment took place in Jerusalem. Among the estimated thousand mourners only a few were settlers from Kiryat Arba. Baum and Singer noted: “Without having met Goldstein personally, other mourners most of whom were Jerusalemites, were enthusiastic admirers of his deed. Many more were Yeshiva students. A large group represented the Chabad Hasidic movement, another group [consisted of anti- Zionist] Satmar Hassids.” Other Hassidic movements were also well represented. (Not mentioned in the English-language press, Goldstein, a follower of Meir Kahane (1932-1990), was also a follower of the Lubovitcher rabbi [Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994).) Baum and Singer continued:
People awaiting the arrival of the corpse could be heard repeating: “What a hero! A righteous person! He did it on behalf of all of us.” As usual in such encounters between religious Jews, all the participants tuned into a single, collective personality, united by their burning hatred of the Israeli media, the wicked Israeli government and, above all else, of anyone who dared to speak against the murder.
Before the start of the procession well-known rabbis eulogized Goldstein and commended the murder. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel (b. 1939), for example, said: “The holy martyr, Baruch Goldstein, is from now on our intercessor in heaven. Goldstein did not act as an individual; he heard the cry of the land of Israel, which is being stolen from us day after day by the Muslims. He acted to relieve that cry of the land!” Toward the end of his eulogy Rabbi Ariel added: “The Jews will inherit the land not by any peace agreement but only by shedding blood.” Ben-Shoshan Yeshu’a, a Jewish Underground member, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and amnestied after a few years spent under luxurious hotel conditions, lauded Goldstein and praised his action as an example for other Jews to follow.
Border guards, police and the secret police protected the funeral cortege. Baum and Singer related:
An entire unit of border guards precede the cortege; they were followed by young Kahane group members from Jerusalem who continuously yelled: “death to the Arabs.” While obviously intending to find an Arab to kill, they could not spot one. Suddenly, a border guard noticed an Arab approaching the cortege behind a low fence. The border guard immediately jumped over the fence, stopped the Arab and, using force, led him away to safety before anyone could notice. He [the border guard] thus saved him [the Arab] from a certain lynching.
Behind the young Kahane group members was a coffin, which was surrounded by leaders of Kahane splinter groups, some of whom were wanted by the police. (The police and the secret police claimed later that they did not recognize these wanted leaders. The press correspondents easily recognized them.) Baum wrote:
Tiran Polak, a Kahane group leader wanted by the police, granted me an interview near the coffin. “Goldstein was not only righteous and holy,” he told me, “but also a martyr. Since he is a martyr, his corpse will be buried without being washed, not in a shroud but in his clothes. The honorable Dr. Goldstein has always refused to provide medical help to Arabs. Even during the war for Galilee he refused to treat any Arab, including those serving in the army. General Gad Navon (1922-2006), the chief rabbi of the Israeli army, at that time contacted Meir Kahane (1932-1990) to ask him to persuade Baruch Goldstein of blessed memory to treat the Arabs. Kahane, however, refused to do so, because this would be against the Jewish religion.” Suddenly the crowd began yelling: “Death to the journalists.” I looked around and realized that I was the only journalist inside the crowd of mourners. I clung to Tiran Polak and begged him to “please protect me.” I was scared to death that the crowd might recognize me as a journalist.
Military guards transported Goldstein’s coffin to Kiryat Arba through Palestinian villages. A second round of eulogies was delivered in the hall of the Hesder Yeshiva Nir military institution by a motley of religious settlers, including the aforementioned Rabbi Dov Lior (b. 1933). Lior said: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” The terms “human beings” and “others” in the Halakha refer solely to Jews. Lior continued: “Goldstein could not continue to bear the humiliations and shame nowadays inflicted upon us; this was why he took action for no other reason than to sanctify the holy name of God.”
Tohay Hakah reported in Yerushalaim on March 4, 1994 upon another Dov Lior (b. 1933) eulogy of Goldstein a few days after the funeral. He recalled that Lior several years ago was excoriated in the press for recommending that medical experiments be performed on the live bodies of Arab terrorists. The outcry against this recommendation influenced the attorney general to prevent the otherwise guaranteed election of Dov Lior (b. 1933) to the Supreme Rabbinical Council of Israel. The attorney general, however, did not interfere with Lior’s current rabbinical duties. The press reported upon other eulogies, delivered not only in religious settlements but in religious neighborhoods of many Israeli towns during the days immediately following the slaughter. The Hebrew press reportage of these eulogies suggests that the most virulent lauding of Goldstein and the calling for further massacres of Arabs occurred in the more homogeneous religious communities.
The approval of Goldstein and his mass murder extended well beyond the perimeters of the religious Jewish community. Secular Israeli Jews, especially many of the youth, praised Goldstein and his deed. That Israeli youth were even more pleased by the massacre than were the adults is well-documented. The concern here nevertheless will be with the adult population, which in many ways is the most significant. According to Yuval Katz, who wrote an article published in the March 4, 1994 issue of Yerushalaim, it is not true that “with the exception of a few psychopaths, the entire nation and its politicians included, has resolutely condemned Dr. Goldstein, even though, luckily for us, all major television networks in the world were last week still deluded by this untruth.” Katz told how a popular television entertainer, Rafi Reshef (b. 1957), who was not controlled as tightly as the moderators in sedate panels, “could this week announce the findings of some reliable polls.” Katz continued:
It is important that according to one poll about 50 per cent of Kiryat Arba inhabitants approve of the massacre. More important is another poll that showed that about 50 per cent of Israeli Jews are more sympathetic toward the settlers after the massacre than they were before the massacre. The most important poll established that at least 50 per cent of Israeli Jews would approve of the massacre, provided that it was not referred to as a massacre but rather as a “Patriarch’s Cave operation,” a nice-sounding term already being used by religious settlers.
Katz reported that the politicians and academics interviewed by Reshef failed to grasp the significance of those findings. Attributing them to a chance occurrence, they refused to comment upon them. He tended to excuse them:
I presume that those busy public figures, along with everybody else who this week exerted himself to speak in the name of the entire nation simply did not have time to walk the streets in the last days. Yet, with the exception of the wealthiest neighborhoods, people could be seen smiling merrily when talking about the massacre. The stock popular comment was: “Sure, Goldstein is to be blamed. He could have escaped with ease and have done the same in four other mosques, but he didn’t.”
The impression of many other Israelis corresponded to the Reshef findings. People were rather evenly divided into two categories: in one category the people were vociferous in cheering the slaughter; in the other category the people mostly remained silent and condemned the massacre only if encouraged to do so. Katz continued:
Therefore, this was the right time to draw finally the obvious conclusion that we, the Jews, are not any more sensitive or merciful than are the Gentiles. Many Jews have been programmed by the same racist computer program that is shaping the majority of the world’s nations. We have to acknowledge that our supposed advancement in progressive beliefs and democracy have failed to affect the archaic forms of Jewish tribalism. Those who still delude themselves that Jews might be different than [people of] other nations should now know better. The spree of bullets from Goldstein’s gun was for them an occasion to learn something.
The wise comments of Katz were not heeded in Israel except by a minority. It may be that had more Israeli Jews paid attention and heeded the words of Katz the murder of Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) would have been averted. In the view of this book’s authors, the important difference between the real shock caused by Rabin’s murder and the lack of shock caused by Goldstein’s massacre lies in the fact that Goldstein’s victims were non-Jews.
Although less direct than Katz, many other commentators in the Israeli Hebrew press have focused upon that part of the Israeli Jewish public who were shocked by the rejoicing over the massacre of innocent people and disturbed by the apologia offered by many politicians and public figures. Some of those people who were shocked described the backers of and apologists for Goldstein as “Nazis” or “Nazi-like.” These same people, who can be considered moderate hawks rather than Zionist doves, had before the massacre reacted negatively to the use by a few Israeli Jewish critics of such terminology in describing a part of the Israeli Jewish population. These “moderate hawks” had habitually labelled many Arab organizations, such as the Abu Nidal group (1974-2002) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (founded 1967), “Nazi” or “Nazi-like.” They did not repudiate their views about these Arab organizations; they merely concluded that some Jewish individuals and organizations also merit being so labelled on equal terms with some Arabs. The prestigious journalist, Teddy Preuss, reflected upon all of this in a most severe but substantially representative manner in his March 4, 1994 Davar article:
Compared to the giant-scale mass murderers of Auschwitz, Goldstein was certainly a petty murderer. His recorded statements and those of his comrades, however, prove that they were perfectly willing to exterminate at least two million Palestinians at an opportune moment. This makes Dr. Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994) comparable to Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1979); the same holds true for anyone saying that he [or she] would welcome more of such Purim holiday celebrations. [The massacre occurred on that holiday.] Let us not devalue Goldstein by comparing him with an inquisitor or a Muslim Jihad fighter. Whenever an infidel was ready to convert to either Christianity or Islam, an inquisitor or Muslim Jihad fighter would, as a rule, spare his life. Goldstein and his admirers are not interested in converting Arabs to Judaism. As their statements abundantly testify, they see the Arabs as nothing more than disease-spreading rats, lice or other loathsome creatures; this is exactly how the Nazis believed that the Aryan race alone had laudable qualities that were inheritable but that could become polluted by sheer contact with dirty and morbid Jews. Meir Kahane (1932-1990), who learned nothing from the Nuremberg Laws (1935), had exactly the same notions about the Arabs.
Really, Kahane had the same notions about non-Jews. Although less scathing than Preuss, other Israeli commentators suggested the same consideration.
In contrast to the above criticism were the even more numerous comments about the harm caused to Israeli Jews by the Goldstein massacre. The lament in the February 28, 1994 Haaretz Economic Supplement, for example, was headlined: “Goldstein’s massacre caused distress on the Tel-Aviv stock market.” Other papers voiced similar sentiments. More importantly, Shimon Peres (1923-2016) and other senior dovish politicians presented a typical political apologia in their criticism of the massacre, which they delivered in a meeting of the Knesset Committee for Foreign and Defense Affairs. Specific detail of this meeting is included below to illustrate the real opinions of most Israeli politicians and their general disregard of a major massacre of non-Jews except as it affected the interests of Israel and its allies. A March 8, 1994 Haaretz article reported the discussion at this meeting. Peres wasted no time expressing heartfelt shock about the murdered Palestinians but spoke instead about the harm to Israel caused by the “pictures of corpses that the entire world could watch.” Peres did not condemn the armed religious settlers for their public rejoicing and shooting; he deplored the harm caused to Israel and to themselves by the pictures of them. As quoted in Haaretz, Peres added: “The events in Hebron also adversely affected the interests of President Hosni Mubarak> (1928-2020) and King Hussein of Jordan (1935-1999), and even more of the PLO and its leadership.” Peres then went on to say: “We have had Jewish Kibbutzim located in the midst of Arab-inhabited areas for 80 years, and I cannot recall a single instance of such a slaughter nor of firing at Arab buses nor of maiming Arab mayors.” At this point in the discussion senior Likud politicians interpolated Peres. As reported in Haaretz:
The first to interrupt Peres’ speech was Ariel Sharon (1928-2014). “Kibbutzim are dear to me no less than to you, but there have been many cases when somebody from a kibbutz would go out to murder Arabs.” Peres answered: “The two cases are not comparable, because in the case under discussion the murderer was supported by a whole group of followers.” Benny Begin (b. 1943) [answered]: “Why are you always talking in generalities?” Peres [responded]: “I am not. I only maintain that in order to pursue the peace process we need the PLO as a partner, and now this partnership is in straits and we need to help the PLO.” Sharon [answered]: “You mean that we should help that murderer [Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)].” Peres, angrily banging the table [responded]: “And what about Egyptians with whom you, Likud, made peace? Didn’t Egyptians murder Jews? Really. What’s the difference between war and terrorism? Does it make any difference how 16,000 of our soldiers were killed? Everywhere, states are making deals with terror organizations.” Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949) [spoke]: “No state exists that has made a deal with an organization still committed to its destruction. The PLO has not rescinded the Palestinian Covenant. You are dwelling upon the crime committed in Hebron not in order to reassure people [Jews] living there but in order to advance your plan to establish a Palestinian state.” Peres [answered]: “It is you and your plans that will lead to the formation of a Palestinian state, because it is you, the Likud, that created the PLO in Madrid. It is you who conceived the autonomy in the first place, contrary to all our [previously pursued] aims.” Netanyahu [stated]: “Autonomy is not the same thing as a state.” Peres [continued]: “But it is Sharon who is first to say that autonomy is bound to lead to a Palestinian state ... I am not less steadfast than are you; this is why I have elaborated the most restrictive possible interpretation of autonomy in Oslo, in relation to its territory, power and authorities. This is why we are against international observers and consent only to the temporary presence of representatives from the countries contributing money [Note: That is; the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH)] . And regarding the Palestinian Covenant, they have renounced it publicly, but they find it difficult to convene their representative bodies to ratify this renunciation.” Begin [answered]: “Let me remind you that the PLO has not undertaken publicly to rescind the Palestinian Covenant.” Peres [answered]: “I don’t give a damn about you and/or your legalistic verbiage! Arafat said that he renounced the Palestinian Covenant and for me Arafat is the PLO.”
The above passage shows, among other things, that knowledge of Israeli politics and more generally Jewish affairs can be best attained by using the original sources of what Jews say among themselves.
The continuing process of Goldstein’s elevation to the rank of saint by groups of Israeli Jews and his worship as such began soon after the massacre. In his February 28, 1994 Haaretz article, Shmuel Rosner (b. 1968) recounted a sermon delivered on the Sabbath after the massacre by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), the former chief military rabbi and chief rabbi of Israel. Rosner wrote: “Goren’s conclusion was that next time an authorization would be needed for a massacre. The authorization should come from the community ‘not from the [present] illegal government.’” Rosner observed that the audience liked Goren’s sermon but would have preferred, as would numerous other Israeli Jews, that the army rather than Goldstein had committed the massacre.
In the days and weeks after the massacre, appreciation of Goldstein and his deed spread throughout the Israeli religious community and among its supporters in the United States. The initial expressions of that appreciation may be most significant, because they were spontaneous and because they illustrated the influence, even beyond the messianic community, of an ideology that approved indiscriminate killing of Gentiles by Jews. Avirama Golan described in her February 28, 1994 Haaretz article how news about Goldstein on the day of the massacre became known in the overwhelmingly Haredi city of Bnei Brak and how the next day a religious Jewish crowd reacted with praise of Goldstein during a mass entertainment event. The massacre occurred on Purim, the festival during which religious Jews are merry and sometimes drink alcoholic beverages to the point of drunkenness. Bnei Brak streets were filled to capacity by joyful celebrants that day; a special security force, comprised of religious veterans of the Israeli army’s elite units, had been hired by the mayor to enforce order and modesty. Golan described the response in the streets to the spreading news of the massacre:
A hired security guard, with a huge gun in his belt, a black skullcap on his head, and special insignia of “Bnei Brak Security Team” on his chest, stared at a fundraising stall. Then he noticed his pal across the street. “A Purim miracle, I’m telling you, Purim miracle,” he shouted at the top of his voice. “That holy man did something great. 52 Arabs at one stroke.” However, the fundraiser, a slim yeshiva student, was skeptical. “That’s just impossible,” he said. “Those must be just stories.” But the people standing around confirmed the news. “It was on the radio,” they said. “Where?” “In the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hebron.” The yeshiva student turned pale. “I don’t mind the Arabs, but it is us who will pay the price,” he said. “What are you talking about?” the security guard shouted, “It’s a Purim miracle. God has helped.” People around the stall formed two groups: on the one hand those who said that God Himself ordained a well-deserved punishment of the Arabs; on the other, those who remained silent throughout. The fundraiser went on writing receipts and shaking his head. “Oh,” he said, “nothing really happened.” The Bnei Brak functionary’s wife said that dozens of visitors who, as is customary on Purim, visited their home that morning, were shocked. “By the murder?” somebody asked. “To tell you the truth, not exactly by the murder. About what may now happen to the Jews.”
Jumping to the evening of the next day, Golan continued: “Masses of religious Jews were expected to come to Yad Eliahu Stadium [the biggest in Israel] to be entertained by the famous religious jazz singer, Mordechai Ben-David (b. 1951). For months before the massacre, this evening had been planned as a demonstration intended to save the land of Israel from Rabin, Peres and other Jewish infidels.” All factions of the religious community were represented in the crowd. Golan again continued:
The first part of the evening passed quietly and even rather dully. Only after the intermission, some minutes before the star of the evening was to appear, the crowd went on a rampage. The master of the ceremony called upon a Kiryat Arba resident to address the crowd. He started by praising that “righteous and holy physician, Dr. Goldstein, who rendered us a sacred service and got martyred in the process.” The speaker called upon the audience to mourn him. By and large, the audience remained silent. Some applauded. Only a single individual, wearing a small beard and a knitted skullcap, stood up and yelled: “I disagree; that was a cold-blooded murder!” Instantly he was physically assaulted. Many in the crowd yelled: “Kick the infidel out of the hall!” The tempers calmed down only when Ben-David finally appeared on the stage and began singing. Outside after the performance some people reminisced that more Gentiles had been killed by the Jews in Susa during the original Purim [75,000]. They, therefore, reasoned that this was the right time to kill a comparable number of Gentiles in the holy land.
No wonder that Dov Halvertal, a member of the almost defunct faction of the NRP doves, told Golan: “This Purim joy epitomizes the moral collapse of religious Zionism ... If religious Zionism does not undertake soul-searching right now, I doubt if it will ever have another opportunity.”
Subsequent developments showed that neither the religious Zionists nor other factions within the Jewish religious community were or are in any mood to engage in soul-searching. On the contrary, the appreciation of Goldstein and the feeling that Jews have a right and duty to kill Gentiles who live in the land of Israel are growing. In his March 23, 1994 Haaretz article, Nadav Shragai (b. 1959) discussed the visit of a delegation of all Israeli branches of the Bnei Akiva, the large youth movement affiliated with the NRP, to Kiryat Arba and Hebron, which was then under a curfew selectively applied to its Arab inhabitants. The purpose of this visit was to “encourage Jewish settlers.” Yossi Leibowitz, a settler leader from Hebron [Note: worth investigating], as described by Shragai, “beaming with satisfaction visible in his face asked the delegation: ‘Have you already visited the tomb of holy Rabbi Doctor Goldstein?’ ” The visitors rejected the suggestion but did not utter one word of rebuke to the worshippers of the new saint. They then had to withstand a flurry of abuse from their local Bnei Akiva comrades who argued that their refusal to pay homage to Goldstein amounted to support of the left. Local rabbis affiliated with the NRP seconded the denunciation. Rabbi Shimon Ben-Zion, a senior teacher in the local Hesder Yeshiva and hence a state employee, delivered a eulogy of Goldstein and of what he called “his act.” He added: “[If the government] keeps bowing low to Arabs, all of whom are murderers, [and if] the Jews fail to establish a firm rule over the land of Israel [there will be] more Goldsteins.” Most visitors made counter-arguments; they were nevertheless influenced by their hosts’ arguments; they came to believe that their duty to support the Jewish settlers in Hebron was more important than any minor disagreements about Goldstein’s sainthood.
Gabby Baron reported in the March 16, 1994 Yedioth Ahronot:
Deputy Minister of Education Micha Goldman (b. 1948) was physically assaulted yesterday after delivering a welcoming speech at a meeting of Jerusalem’s district teachers in the Binyaney Ha’umah hall in that city. He managed to avoid being hurt. His speech infuriated dozens of religious teachers, because he talked about his visit to Kiryat Arba and the shock he experienced when finding how enthused the religious school children were by the massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs. A virtual riot erupted in the hall, which was filled by about 5000 Jerusalem district teachers, as soon as he spoke about it. Dozens of religious teachers jumped onto the podium. A female teacher who managed to reach it [the podium] picked up a flowerpot from the speaker’s table; she was ready to hurl it at him when at the last moment she balked. All the religious teachers assembled in rage in front of the podium and decried the deputy minister as “a fascist.” Goldman insisted upon continuing his speech. When he ended, he had to leave the building under heavy guard, thanks to which the pursuing teachers were unable to injure him.
Neither Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein (1931-2024) nor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) uttered a single word in condemnation of the incident.
On April 5, 1994, Israeli radio reported that Rabbi Shimon Ben-Zion had distributed a leaflet among the Kiryat Arba and Hebron settlers requesting financial contributions for a book about “Saint Baruch Goldstein.” On April 6, Yedioth Ahronot published the text. The book refers to Goldstein as “Rabbi Doctor Baruch Goldstein of blessed memory, let the Lord avenge his blood.” The Kiryat Arba municipal council backed the ideas of Ben-Zion. In his April 5, 1994 Haaretz article, Amnon Barzilay reported that two days earlier Gush Emunim leaders, including Mayor Benny Katzover [Note: worth investigating], had an amicable talk with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) who apologized to them for his past outbursts against them and promised never to repeat them. (The outbursts anyway were intended for consumption of the Israeli “doves,” Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) and the Western media.) The two sides agreed to cooperate closely in the future. Thus, Rabin understandably found it ill-advised to say anything about Rabbi Ben-Zion’s idea.
About one year later the Kiryat Arba municipality obtained a permit from the Civil Administration of the Occupied Territories to build a large and sumptuous memorial on Goldstein’s tomb, which has become a place of pilgrimage. Thousands of Jews from all Israeli cities, and even more from the United States and France, have come to light candles and pray for the intercession of “holy saint and martyr,” now in a special section of paradise close to God and able to obtain for them various benefits, such as cures for diseases from which they suffer, or to grant them male offspring. The visitors have donated money for Goldstein’s comrades. No Orthodox rabbi has criticized this.
The well-publicized worship of the new saint has brought increasing opposition from secular Jews. (The opposition of Palestinians, especially those living in Hebron, to the hero-worship of Goldstein and to the monument to this mass murderer are not within the scope of this book but should be obvious.) After a long campaign in the press, Knesset members passed a piece of legislation in May, 1998, that prohibited the building of monuments for mass murderers and ordering removal of existing ones. The Israeli army should have removed the monument immediately after passage of the law in the Knesset. Instead army spokesmen announced that negotiations over the Goldstein monument were on-going with Goldstein’s family and local rabbis.
The book in praise of Goldstein, titled Blessed is the Man, was published in 1995 and sold in many editions. Most of the readers were from the religious public. The book contained eulogies of Goldstein and halakhic justifications for the right of every Jew to kill non-Jews. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh (b. 1944), the then head of the Kever Yosef (Tomb of Joseph) Yeshiva [Od Yosef Chai], located on the outskirts of Nablus, wrote one chapter of that book. The essence of Rabbi Ginsburgh’s views were presented in Chapter 4. His and other such ideologies, even if expressed more cautiously, explain Goldstein’s massacre, the considerable support Goldstein and later his followers have received from religious Jews and the ambiguous attitude of Israeli governments to this crime. Those people, especially Germans, who were silent and did not condemn Nazi ideology before Hitler came to power are also, at least in a moral sense, guilty for the terrible consequences that followed. Similarly, those who are silent and do not condemn Jewish Nazism, as
“Martians, Go Home” is a broad satire of the human race as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy.
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
See Goodreads, just scan the bar codes and add to a bookshelf...
To toss or keep, some stuff...
on the floor to sort... "I Before E" Great Speeches, Eats Shoots & Leaves... 1066.. Robertson letters from a publisher..
This is the fourth book I've received from Goodreads contests. Considering my book-hoarding ways, I'm tickled whenever I get a new book, but I'm a huge fan of short story collections. (I am that rare person who buys those collections, even though publishers say they never sell. Well, they sell to me.)
Coincidentally, I was just listening to an SF Signal podcast about military sci-fi yesterday, and the day before that another podcast featuring Jaym Gates. (Who I thought was named "Jane" until she spelled it at the end of the podcast. Definitely an unusual name.)
Thanks to Goodreads and the nice people at Apex for choosing me!
This past spring, as I walked through our little wooded area, these wild flowers spoke to me. I've spent my spare hours since painting them. Today, I think I'm finished. I can't do anything more for them.
Since I've been attracted to painting "stuff in a container on the grass", I looked for a container I'd not painted before. This old silver-plate platter was perfect! It held the beautiful flowers nicely, but also reflected their place in nature. You can see hints of the sky and the grass here and there. Finished! Now, what to name the painting? The icing on the cake of making a painting for me is to come up with a title. I wanted to convey the unfathomable beauty and fragility of wild flowers in nature. And, the unfathomable beauty, fragility and importance of the natural world.
So, I went to my favourite source for quotes, GoodReads. This quote stood out for me:
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
Embracement it is.
A random view in macro.
Nothing personal in this one. It is meant, in the nicest possible way, for everyone out there.
Innocent attempts at abstractions, with images of industrial artefacts, always appear to invite utterly unfounded suspicions, or totally baseless allegations, of deliberate offence.
Makes one begin to empathize a bit with folks who tried to clear up misunderstood statements, in a different context, with AJP.
I was tempted, but using that line as a title would probably have invited a DMCA take down.
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“Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.”
- Shannon L. Alder -
Peggy's Last Term by Ethel Talbot
with illustrations by C. E. Brock.
A girls' boarding school comes under attack by a German battleship during the First World War; what's not to love about a book like that?!
“The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson” is one of Twain’s lesser known novels, but it may be one of his best. Set in the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social issues still being debated today. Here is what the Goodreads website has to say about the novel (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson):
“At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.”
The book contains over a thousand illustrations, which are distributed in the margins throughout the text, a technique that had never before been used for a Mark Twain text. Two artists, F. M. Senior and C. H. Warren, supplied the copious, cartoon-sized pictures required for this mode of illustration.
The first edition of the book also has a bonus story called “Those Extraordinary Twins.” "‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's ‘The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.’ As Twain explains, he extricated ‘Twins’ from ‘Pudd'nhead’ when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other.” [From the Introduction by John Greenman for the LibriVox audio edition of the “Twins” story at librivox.org/those-extraordinary-twins-by-mark-twain/]
From Goodreads - The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.
What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?
Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again
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My Review - This is one of the weirdest books I have ever read and I mean that in a good way. if I had to describe Beauty Queens in one word, that word would be Trippy. I would love to take a trip through Libba Bray's mind. It has to be a lot of fun.
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The rectangular slice is from Susan Mendelson , the wedge is adapted from Mark Bittman .
Mendelson's cheesecake was lighter and sweeter. Bittman's was quite dense, had a more pronounced cheese flavour, and (as seen) a thicker crust. It was also more fiddly to make, developed horrifying fissures at the top, and ended up looking like the San Andreas Fault of cheesecakes. But it tasted fine, as did Mendelson's, each in its own way.
Susan Mendelson's Famous Lemon Cheesecake:
Crust:
1 1/3 cups (325 mL) Graham wafer crumbs
1/3 cup (75 mL) butter
quarter cup brown sugar
Mix the above together and press into the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan. (My square 9-inch Pyrex-type pan was fine.) Bake in the oven at 350° F (180° C) for 5 minutes.
Filling:
1 lb (500 gm) cream cheese [I used Western.]
3 medium eggs
half cup (125 mL) sour cream
2/3 cup (150 mL) sugar
2 tablesp (25 mL) lemon juice
Bake in the oven at 350° F (180° C) for 30-35 minutes
Topping:
1 cup (250 mL) sour cream
4 tablesp (50 mL) sugar
2 tablesp (25 mL) lemon juice
Mix together and spread over the cheesecake. Return to the oven for 5 minutes.
Chill thoroughly in the fridge (several hours, preferably) before serving.
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Mark Bittman's Lemon Cheesecake with Sour Cream Topping:
Graham Cracker Crust: (Double this crust recipe for the Lemon Cheesecake)
6 tablesp (3 oz) unsalted butter
6 oz graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons sugar
Melt the butter. Combine sugar with the graham cracker crumbs in a bowl or food processor. Slowly add the butter till well blended. Press the crumbs into the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan. To prebake: heat the oven to 350°F. Bake the crust for 8-10 minutes, until it just begins to brown. Cool on a rack before filling.
Filling:
4 eggs, separated
24 oz cream cheese [I used a mixture of ricotta, Philadelphia, and Western cream cheese ]
grated zest and juice of one lemon
1 cup sugar
1 tablesp all-purpose flour
Topping (optional):
2 cups sour cream
1 tablesp sugar
1 teasp vanilla extract
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Make a double recipe of the Graham Cracker crust, as above. Find an oven-proof pan large enough serve as a water-bath for the springform pan. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Boil water in the kettle for the water bath.
Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites till they hold soft peaks. Put them aside.
Beat the egg yolks till they're light. Add cheese, lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar. Beat till smooth. Stir in the flour. Gently fold the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture. Pour the batter over the prepared and cooled crust.
Put the springform pan into the larger pan for the water bath, and add hot water to the water bath so that it comes to within an inch of the top of the springform pan. After I've gauged the amount of water needed, I remove the springform pan, and carefully carry both pans separately to the oven. (Safer than carrying a fuller pan with sloshing hot water.) Then I return the springform pan to its water bath, in the oven.
Bake until the cheesecake is just set, and very lightly browned, approx 1 hour.
Turn the oven up to 450° F if making the topping. [I'd try 350°F next time.] Combine the topping ingredients, and spoon the mixture over the cheesecake. Return it to the oven for 10 minutes, without the water bath.
Then turn off the oven, leaving the cheesecake in there for a further 30 minutes. [Not sure how necessary this particular step is; may shorten - or even omit? - it next time.]
Chill thoroughly in the fridge before serving.
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Next time, I might try a combination of the Bittman crust (but with brown sugar), Mendelson filling with the same 3 cheeses as I used for Bittman, and Mendelson baking times/method for the filling. Not sure which topping to go with.
Clarksdale, est. 1848, pop. 17,962
• African-American blues comploser & classically-trained musician W.C. Handy (1873-1958) lived in house at this now vacant site, 1903-1905 • self-styled "Father of the Blues" (the title of his autobiography) was son of former slaves • led 9-piece Colored Knights of Pythias Band • gave non-blues concerts for segregated black or white Clarksdale audiences
• during Cleveland, MS performance for a white audience, received request to "play some of our native music." • Handy's band resumed its normal set, received 2nd request: would it be OK if local colored group played a few dances? • the band took a break, 3 local musicians stepped in, played "primitive music" (blues), were showered with applause and silver dollars, causing Handy to reconsider band's repertoir
• months later, in waiting room at nearby Tutwiler (MS) Station, "A lean loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me… His face had on it the sadness of the ages." • musician was playing guitar with a knife & sang about going Where the Southern Crosses The Dog • "[It was] the weirdest music I'd ever heard." - Trail of the Hellhound • 100th Anniversary of the Blues
• moved to Memphis, 1909 • published The Memphis Blues, 1912, establishing Handy in white-dominated music publishing industry • original sheet music • performance with vocal by W.C. Handy (1:33) • 1914 performance by Victor Military Band (3:02) • guitar performance by Claes Neeb • Black History Now
• Colored Knights of Pythias a masonic secret society founded 1880, Vicksburg, MS, by light-skinned Ohioan Dr. Thomas W. Stringer (1815-1893) • Dr. Stringer had gained membership in all-white Knights of Pythias & borrowed their secret rituals for the new African American organization • many of its local lodges formed bands - Organizing Black America
• Clarksdale Historic District, National Register 09000763, 2009 • Coahoma County designated part of Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, 2009
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This image of Dr. James Watson was part of Apple’s "Educators Set", which was printed in 2000 and distributed through its Education Channels. Included with the set was a biography of each person depicted. Here is an excerpt: "Dr. James Watson: ‘Code cracker’. In his late teens, his boyhood passion for bird-watching blossomed into a yearning to understand genetics. After earning a Ph.D. in zoology in the early ‘50s, he and Francis Crick proposed a radical new insight into understanding the structure of the DNA molecule, which contains the genetic code for all life. He was an early leader of the Human Genome Project. He has published five books and numerous scientific papers. And his curriculum vitae includes honorary degrees from 25 universities and 18 awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962). He is known for the greatest achievement of science in the twentieth century."
"Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”
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“The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson” is one of Twain’s lesser known novels, but it may be one of his best. Set in the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social issues still being debated today. Here is what the Goodreads website has to say about the novel (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson):
“At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.”
The book contains over a thousand illustrations, which are distributed in the margins throughout the text, a technique that had never before been used for a Mark Twain text. Two artists, F. M. Senior and C. H. Warren, supplied the copious, cartoon-sized pictures required for this mode of illustration.
The first edition of the book also has a bonus story called “Those Extraordinary Twins.” "‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's ‘The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.’ As Twain explains, he extricated ‘Twins’ from ‘Pudd'nhead’ when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other.” [From the Introduction by John Greenman for the LibriVox audio edition of the “Twins” story at librivox.org/those-extraordinary-twins-by-mark-twain/]
From Goodreads - The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But in the course of a routine autopsy, the coroner discovers that one of the victims suffered a head wound before death—clearly, foul play was involved. But who would want to make orphans of the Slabaughs’ children? And is this murder somehow related to a recent string of shocking hate crimes against the Amish?
Having grown up Amish, Kate is determined to bring the killer to justice. Because the other series of attacks are designated hate crimes, the state sends in agent John Tomasetti, with whom Kate has a long and complex relationship. Together, they search for the link between the crimes—and uncover a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community.
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My Review -This is book 3 in the Kate Burkholder series. If you haven't read the first 2 yet I suggest you do. If you don't you won't be able to really understand the dynamics or anything else that goes on or understand why Kate and the rest of the characters do what they do. One of the first things you have to understand is that you can't lump all Amish into the same group. They have many different sects and they range from the old order to the more modern. I would even suggest you go as far as to read a little something about the religion before even commenting.
Now that my little rant is over I have to admit that book 3 is the weakest of the series and is not my favorite. It was good, but the excitement that I saw in book 1 & 2 is really not there. Either I'm getting good at guessing who did it or the author didn't really bother to make this much of a mystery. I pretty much had it figured out right in the beginning. Another thing I would suggest to the readers is that if you have a problem with taboo issues, you should on this one. The main character, Kate, seems to be falling down a black hole. Not a literal black hole, but an emotional one that she is going to have some serious issues getting out of. I would have assumed that as time goes on she would grow. That does not seem to be the case with Kate. She is letting her past rule her future. It's a slippery slope that she headed down and she doesn't seem to care. She seemed so strong in the beginning and now she just seems whiny and pathetic with no clear direction of which way she is headed
猫と庄造と二人のをんな - 谷崎 潤一郎
" A Cat, a Man, and Two Women " By JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI
Tokyo, Rutland Vt: Kodansha International (JPN 1988) 1992
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ARIMA HOT-SPRING HOTEL, KOBE
Arima cho, Kita-ku, Kobe 858
Named as a setting for " A Cat, a Man, and Two Women "
「陶泉 御所坊」 は、1191年に有馬温泉で創業した旅館で、現在、個性のある店舗等を展開している御所坊グループのルーツ。
当坊は、芸術を愛する人々に好まれてきました。
阪神間のモダンな風俗を小説で表現した谷崎潤一郎も、そうした御所坊ファンの１人でした。
「細雪」のヒロインのモデルになった方も有馬では御所坊を好まれて通って頂いたほか、「猫と庄造と二人のをんな」では、御所坊の名前が実名で小説にでてきます。
"Imperial Priest pottery fountain" in the Arima hot spring inn, founded in 1191, now bo roots group Imperial has developed a personality and a store. Built during the 1930s from the early Showa era, while maintaining a three-story wooden good old capture the emotion inn in Japan good foreign culture, East and West, tradition and novelty, and nature and convenience, We created a unique space at the same time allow. Moreover, we consider important to the global environment, recycling and working to quickly 参Rimashita.
Gathering place for people who love the arts:
Tanizaki novel is also expressed in the Hanshin modern customs, Imperial Priest was one of those fans. "Light snowfall" at Arima who was also the heroine of another model is favored gotten through the Imperial Priest, the "Won and his two cats and 庄造" provides real name in the name of the kid on the novel by Imperial come.
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FILM VERSION - 1956, Japan
猫と庄造と二人のをんな （ 1956年 ）
『 猫と庄造と二人のをんな 』 製作=東京映画 配給=東宝 ( 1956年 ) 監督： 豊田四郎 、出演： 森繁久彌 、 山田五十鈴 、 香川京子
Toho (Tokyo) and movie production-distribution ( 1956 )
Director: Toyota Shirou
Cast: Hisaya Shigeru Mori , Yamada Isuzu , Kagawa Kiyoko
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" SEVEN JAPANESE TALES " By JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI
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(谷崎 潤一郎 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965)
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“The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson” is one of Twain’s lesser known novels, but it may be one of his best. Set in the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social issues still being debated today. Here is what the Goodreads website has to say about the novel (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson):
“At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.”
The book contains over a thousand illustrations, which are distributed in the margins throughout the text, a technique that had never before been used for a Mark Twain text. Two artists, F. M. Senior and C. H. Warren, supplied the copious, cartoon-sized pictures required for this mode of illustration.
The first edition of the book also has a bonus story called “Those Extraordinary Twins.” "‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's ‘The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.’ As Twain explains, he extricated ‘Twins’ from ‘Pudd'nhead’ when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other.” [From the Introduction by John Greenman for the LibriVox audio edition of the “Twins” story at librivox.org/those-extraordinary-twins-by-mark-twain/]