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It is wonderful to welcome back Joan Swirsky to my Blog. Here is another article from her archives – eerily prophetic – it needed little updating. Thanks again Joan! GIbber Gibber! Chugley By: Joan Swirsky Montana has about 1,400 Jews, Mississippi about 1,500, South Dakota 250. If I lived in any one of those beautiful states, I would not be writing this article. But I live in New York––home to about one-million, 800-thousand Jews––so the politics of being Jewish affects me and my family in a very existential––life and death––way. It’s quite simple for me, as it should be for all Jews, given the fact that in a world of about eight-billion people, we Jews are a miniscule 16 million, only about six-million in the United States, eight-million in Israel, and another two-million around the world. That is equivalent to the proverbial drop in the ocean. A PRESSING IMPERATIVE If we Jews and our supporters don’t aggressively address the pandemic of anti-Semitism that is galloping around the globe and exploding here in America, rampant on college campuses, aided and abetted by a craven media that gives credibility to career hate-mongers like Louis Farrakhan and his ilk, and even contaminating the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress––with more floridly hate-Jews/hate-Israel Democrats than ever before in history––then we know from our tragic history that annihilation could be right around the corner. Sadly, the Democrat Party of old––of JFK, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Senator and VP Walter Mondale, et al––has vanished, replaced by Democrats like “the squad” who spew their poisonous hatred of Jews and Israel from the House of Representatives itself. Then there are those who remain thunderously silent––including elected Democrat Jews like Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, Richard Blumenthal, et al. Don’t be fooled by…
I am thrilled to welcome back Joan Swirsky, our thoughts and prayers have been with Joan since she lost her dear husband recently. In spite of this tragic blow, she has has bravely revised an older article which is most pertinent today as Israel is under a murderous onslaught from Hamas. She already has other articles prepared. Congratulations Joan, King David would be proud of you. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley by Joan Swirsky, ©2021 (Jul. 18, 2021) — In 1949, the trailblazing anti-racist musical “South Pacific”––created by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II––debuted on Broadway to wild critical acclaim, running for over five years in nearly 2,000 performances. A particularly powerful and influential song from the musical, “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” carried the message that hatred does not arise spontaneously in the human species, but rather is inculcated––taught, sermonized, infused––by parents, teachers, coaches, political figures or other impassioned haters. Here are the still-relevant lyrics: You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,You’ve got to be taught from year to year,It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear,You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraidOf people whose eyes are oddly made,And people whose skin is a different shade,You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,Before you are six or seven or eight,To hate all the people your relatives hate,You’ve got to be carefully taught! The show takes place on a South Pacific island during World War II, which make the lyrics relevant and understandable. This is why the world-famed composer (who was Jewish) and lyricist (whose father was Jewish) didn’t include the hatred for Jews that children have been taught for literally thousands of years. CARRYING THE TORCH FOR THE OLDEST HATRED When Americans…
I am delighted to welcome Joan Swirsky back to my Blog after a time away nursing a sick husband and daughter. They could not be in better hands as you will discover when you read this amazing exploratory article. They are now on the road to recovery. April is Autism awareness month in America and it is an affliction affecting millions of people worldwide. It would seem todays medical profession has much to explain. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley April 20, 2023 Looking for answers to the autism epidemic in all the wrong places By Joan Swirsky According to the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest statistics, in 2020 one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism spectrum disorder, estimates that are significantly higher than those in all previous years. White children are about 19 percent more likely than black children and 65 percent more likely than Hispanic children to be diagnosed with autism. Experts offer various reasons for the general increase in this condition: The role that being an older parent plays not only in the incidence of autism but also Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Genes. “Something” in the environment. The increasing number of vaccines given to infants and children, which today routinely number 16. What is consistently omitted, however, is the role that ultrasound exams during pregnancy may and probably do play not only in this seeming black/white disparity, but in the rapidly escalating incidence of the condition. More about that below. WHAT WE KNOW TODAY Autism is a neurological disorder that affects the normal development of the brain, causing self-defeating behaviors and an inability to form social relationships. It usually appears before the age of three. Most scientists believe that autism is strongly influenced by…
Thanks to Joan Swirsky and Kelleigh Nelson for the story behind Somewhere Over the Rainbow reproduced below, explaining its connection with Israel. Click the red arrow above to hear Judy Garland singing the song. Did you also know that Irving Berlin, born Israel Beilin, gave us the song White Christmas and God Bless America? There is no limit to the depth of genius embedded within the Jewish Nation. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley So beautiful and so true! Somewhere Over the Rainbow Did you know that Somewhere Over the Rainbow, regarded as one of the best songs ever written, was a song written about Israel? The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg. He was the youngest of four children born to Russian Jewish immigrants. His real name was Isidore Hochberg, and he grew up in a Yiddish speaking Orthodox Jewish home in New York The music was written by Harold Arlen, a Cantor’s son. His real name was Hyman Arluck, and his parents were from Lithuania. Together, Hochberg and Arluck wrote Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which was voted the 20th century’s number one song by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In writing it, the two men reached deep into their immigrant Jewish consciousness framed by the pogroms of the past and the Holocaust about to happen–and wrote an unforgettable melody set to near prophetic words. Read the lyrics in their Jewish context and suddenly the words are no longer about wizards and Oz, but about Jewish survival: Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There’s a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. Someday I’ll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon…
I thank Joan Swirsky for another deeply informed and researched article. Joan’s full biography is published on her website, accessed by clicking on her name at the top of the article, or at the end, above her abbreviated biography. She has had a very interesting life, including writing many books and a musical, which was played on Broadway. It makes a fascinating read. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Know What Drives Anti-Semites Like Ye? Just Peel the Onion of the Human Psyche By Joan Swirsky, ©2022 johnhain, Pixabay, License (Dec. 9, 2022) — When I watch TV with my husband Steve, a former athlete, I see superb ballplayers in basketball, baseball, and football exhibiting what immense discipline went into their sculpted bodies, what sacrifices they made to achieve their goals, what tremendous––almost superhuman––talent they have in effecting that three-point shot from mid-court, that spectacular triple play, that “you’ve been Mossed” catch in the endzone. And I picture them as young boys watching Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, and saying to themselves what Steve––his team’s slugger––said to himself in 1955, when, at the age of 14, he took the 3,000-mile train ride from New Haven, CT, to Portland, OR, to compete in the Babe Ruth League World Series in the Multnomah Stadium: “I’m gonna be the next Joe DiMaggio!” It only added to that lofty ambition when the residents of The City of Roses greeted the teenaged boys by showering red, white, and pink roses on them when they got off the train. As it happened, the star pitcher of Steve’s team got into a fistfight and was sent home on the next train. And that left Steve to face not only the 15-year-old pitcher Mickey Lolich, who became the three-time All-Star and World Series winner for the Detroit Tigers, but also 15-year-old Al Downing, who became an ace pitcher for the NY Mets and NY Yankees (and other teams). “I was up three times and Lolich pitched me nine pitches I couldn’t hit,” Steve told me, smiling back at the memory. But that humbling experience didn’t discourage Steve from continuing to…
Welcome back to Joan Swirsky with a hard hitting article about the intentional destruction of the American family. I perceive identical attacks have been launched against Australian families. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THE PREMEDITATED MURDER OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY by Joan Swirsky, ©2022 Image: chillla70, Pixabay, License (Oct. 12, 2022) — In 1959, I was 18, newly married to my former boyfriend of four years, and thrilled to be starting my “grown-up” life with the man of my dreams. Little did my then-apolitical self know that the close of that halcyon decade had been preceded by nearly a century of a concerted effort to destroy the American family, an effort fueled by the same fanatical Communist zealots who now occupy the Oval Office of the United States of America! Now why would anyone––much less a huge number of people––want to destroy the greatest and most successful experiment in government in world history, one which President Abraham Lincoln described as “of the people, by the people, for the people,” the Democratic Republic of the United States of America? Simply, because it flew in the face of every political system that previously existed––monarchies, dictatorships, oligarchies, aristocracies, totalitarianism, communism, socialism––systems in which the immense power and abuse-of-power that these regimes exercised would be vanquished if replaced by the Power of the People that the Founding Fathers of America envisioned. The mission of those other regimes was never ever about concern for their populaces; rather it was––and is today––purely about the acquisition and maintenance of power and control and especially the immense wealth that comes with both power and control. Always, always, always follow the money! HOW CAN WE DESTROY AMERICA? The enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy this fledgling experiment. It was clear to them that America’s strength was a function of three phenomena: A fervent belief in…
It is exciting to publish this hard hitting article from Joan Swirsky in America. Be sure to check out the meticulously researched links embedded in this sad story. Remember, Israel is God’s time piece: Genesis 12:3-5 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Hear O Israel––How Do I Hate Thee? Joan Swirsky King Solomon said, “there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The sun rises, and the sun goes down…all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. In his prescience, King Solomon no doubt knew that one of the things that would remain the same was the obdurate persistence––over thousands of years––of maniacal Jew hatred and a fanatical loathing of Israel. If it weren’t so serious, and deadly, it would be almost comical, considering that the massive, heavily armed, immensely populated, and hugely influential empires that tried to annihilate the Jews—the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians, et al––have been extinct for centuries, while the teeny tiny world of Judaism flourishes to this day. And that is not to omit the Crusades and Inquisition and forced conversions and the 20th century Holocaust in which Hitler’s “willing executioners” ––all over Europe––succeeded…
I am delighted to share Joan Swirsky’s latest article with you this morning. Thank you Joan for keeping us all alert in these dangerous times. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley March 2022 Joe Biden’s Lust By Joan Swirsky Let’s dispense with the Mt. Everest of words that have been written to rationalize Joe Biden & Company’s passion––indeed, lust–– to put nuclear weapons in the hands of the fanatical mullahs in the terrorist-run state of Iran. To be sure, the powers-in-power––more accurately those who are pulling their strings––have been busy creating distractions like Covid-19, the corrupt investigation into the January 6th so-called insurrection, and the strange “war” between Russia and Ukraine. But while Biden & Co. rally against Vladimir Putin, the U.S. continues to buy millions of dollars a day of Russian oil, in essence helping to finance the war against Ukraine, and Biden continues to count on ole Vlad to broker the new Iran deal with U.S. negotiators in Vienna. Looking back, it is more than fishy that on his first day in office, according to Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, “Joe Biden killed off 42,100 jobs in America by ending construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline,” and not long after “waived sanctions on Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany.” Clearly, this was to set the stage for the Biden regime to actualize their real goal, their mission, their obsession–––finally, finally, finally to get rid of the arch nemesis of all of them: Israel, with the bonus being half of all the Jews on earth. That’s it, pure and simple. Anti-Semitism on steroids. Not just irrational hatred but jealousy bordering on the psychotic and thinking preoccupied with undermining, sabotaging, boycotting, delegitimizing, and literally annihilating the State of Israel. While the world is now populated by approximately eight-billion people––including 2.3-billion Muslims and 2.7-billion Christians––it is the nine-million Jews…
