We started this morning at the 7:30 a.m. minyan at Adas Israel. It is the 38th yahrzeit of Edie’s father. His death, followed in relatively short order by my mother’s and Edie’s mother, marked the 1980s in our house. My father beat them all, passing away in 1979, just about two months before Michelle was born.

There were about 20 people at the minyan today, and another 12 or so on Zoom, most saying kaddish for a parent. And, of course it got me thinking about Jewish things.

And then about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Remember the old saying: the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Well, either this old saying is completely off base, or RKJ Jr is the exception who proves the rule. It doesn’t really matter which one it is.

Robert Jr. wants to be president of the United States, and something like 10% of the Democrats say that they will vote for him. It’s important to know what a presidential candidate thinks about things, right? We know that Robert Kennedy Jr. didn’t think much of the efficacy of COVID vaccines – he has been saying that for a few years now. But now, we learn that he believes that the disease itself, the virus which causes it, may have been not only artificially created, but purposefully created to infect the entire world. Only two groups have been made relatively immune to COVID, he says (of course he is even wrong statistically, but leave that aside), the Chinese and Ashkenazic Jews. Not all Jews, just those with Central and Eastern European ancestry. I guess that means that the Jews controlled the Wuhan laboratory, and – using Chinese labor – designed a vaccine to consolidate world control. Perhaps they did this under the auspices of the Elders of Zion, working hand in hand with the Chinese Communist Party (and probably also that undercover Ashkenazic Jew, Anthony Fauci – originally Fauchinsky).

(As an aside, I am not sure what proof RFKjr has, but I could add something to his collection: a number of years ago, at an annual meeting of the Board of Governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author Amos Oz gave a talk during which he mentioned his first trip to China, recently completed. He was astounded at the warmth of the reception he had as he made appearances at various Chinese universities. And he told the audience in Bet Sheva that he realized for the first time that if the Jews and Chinese combined their forces, there would be over a billion of them.)

Back to Bobby Jr. Are any of you old enough to remember the Black Death in Europe? Remember the Bobby Juniors of those days, who said the Jews designed the Black Death in such a way that they were not affected, only every one else? I guess we are hearkening back to the Middle Ages. And if you add the COVID vaccine and MTG’s Jewish space lasers, and the accusation that Democratic leftists are all acolytes of Saul Alinsky, and the conclusion that everyone the Republicans don’t like is being funded by George Soros, I guess we Jews know where we stand, huh?

Let’s try two more old sayings: (1) Those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it, and (2) Those who know history are bound to repeat it. Yes, opposites do more than attract; they assert truth.

I started this post by thinking I was going to talk about crypto-Jews. Not those in New Mexico and sub-Saharan Africa. I was thinking about some others. Which lead me to one of the precepts that I live by: everyone is presumed Jewish, until proven otherwise. Robert Kennedy Jr and Marjorie Taylor Greene are not Jewish. For sure.

Back to crypto-Jews and my tour through my Penguin paperbacks.

I am currently reading Andre Maurois’ very enjoyable biography of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Now Disraeli was baptized as a child (both parents were Jewish but his mother was a major assimilationist). But he never denied his Judaism, so we count him as Jewish. But what about that crypto-Jew Andre Maurois? Yes, Maurois was French (born in France), but his birth name was Emile Solomon Herzog? His family was Alsatian Jewish, his mother a Levy, and he didn’t change his name legally until he was over 60. I don’t know the full story.

Before starting “Disraeli”, I was reading a book by British art critic Eric Newton called “European Painting and Sculpture”, a surprisingly interesting analysis of not only the history of European art, but also of the artistic “process”. Newton was a very well known critic and an Oxford Professor of Fine Arts. But who knew that he was born (and raised) Eric Oppenheimer, and he changed his name during the first World War to something that sounded less German?

Like Benjamin Disraeli, Newton’s grandparents had emigrated to Great Britain from Germany. His father was a well known mosaic artist, and was killed when gassed by the German during World War I.

I’d like to tell you some of the interesting things Newton pointed out in the book I read, but I don’t want Edie once again telling me that my post is too long. Maybe some other time.

By the way, Ogden Nash never talked about Jews in the News, but he did say: “How odd of God…..to choose the Jews”. But that’s another story.