New Article: The SY Trumpscum Dig Deep: Mr. Lysol Coronavirus Death Comes to Deal, New Jersey!
David Shasha
The SY Trumpscum Dig Deep: Mr. Lysol Coronavirus Death Comes to Deal, New Jersey!
Greed, Ignorance, Malevolence, Cruelty, and Secrecy.
Please keep those words in mind as you read this article.
Indeed, it is rare that I speak about my own Brooklyn Syrian Jewish community in any great detail.
That is largely because, since they have completely abandoned the Sephardic heritage, the SYs have gone underground and hidden from public view.
They have become notorious for not wanting their names in the newspaper, as we saw when real estate titan Joey Sitt found himself in The New York Times on a regular basis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/nyregion/11coney.html?searchResultPosition=14
Sitt even found himself the subject of a documentary “Zipper” by Amy Nicholson, exposing his cruel Trumpist tactics:
He did what anyone in his position would do – he became a purveyor of “tradition”:
Sitt was not “destroying” Coney Island, he was “preserving” the Sephardic heritage!
What began quietly and discreetly has grown unapologetically over the years. Today, the Sephardic Heritage Museum encompasses far more than the movies it’s famous for. At first, there was a rare and extraordinary collection of books and artifacts. Then, Mr. Sitt and Rabbi Raymond Sultan led a small group of men through Syria to uncover the dynasty that is our birthplace, documenting remarkable information and history. Then, the priceless compilation of video and audio recordings began, managed by the impeccable and amazing Marlene Mamiye. All of this went on against a ticking clock of a dwindling generation.
A concentrated effort grew toward the archaeological restoration of the Great Synagogue of Aleppo and the repair of desecrated gravesites of many of our rabbis and ancestors, in Syria and Israel. Then Rabbi David Azar and many dedicated historians amassed documents and artifacts, including birth and marriage certificates, manuscripts, and memorabilia dating back to the 1200’s. These are now easily read and accessible.
Education was the next hurdle. Gitta Neufeld, director of SHM Learn explains,
“According to Jewish history books we, Sephardic-Syrian Jewry, are barely a
footnote. Our story needs to be told.” The Aleppo History Book, sponsored by
the Haddad family, is now being taught in conjunction with the films.
Naturally, the whole thing is a scam which is controlled by Ashkenazim:
https://www.covenantfn.org/articles/gitta-jaroslawicz-neufeld-2/
And of course, he has been showered with praise from fellow self-hater Lyn Julius for his devoted HASBARAH work:
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/10/syrian-jews-race-to-restore-great.html
As they say: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a Scoundrel”!
Aside from Sitt, there is very little in the public domain when it comes to the very secretive SY oligarchs.
We have recently seen Tikvah Tablet taking in Esther Levy-Chehebar and her debilitated SY ephemera which acts as a palliative to deaden our rich cultural heritage in the face of White Jewish Supremacy:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/g2JsWu4lGvM/d9qNMVIsAwAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/6tcvzDjOf5Q/n3WgsEYFFgAJ
Alana Newhouse also managed to find Rabbi Richard Hidary, a Tikvah veteran, who has diligently followed her Lysol Talking Points program:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/SnVmRWO5JpM/AFYcLcKKBgAJ
Hidary has fully turned his back on the classical Sephardic heritage, preferring instead to ally himself with the “New Talmudists” and their Jews for Jesus Daniel Boyarin-Paula Fredriksen Pauline radicalism:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/pcddAeJ4Qw8/bbIXBEAzCAAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/erDn17QuaLc/B8wqZQSQBgAJ
Hidary has proudly remained outside the parameters of the Sephardic tradition, as has become standard in an SY community whose allegiances are either to YU Modern Orthodoxy or Lakewood Haredism.
As an example of the latter we have the very popular Rabbi Eli Mansour, who cannot cram enough Ashkenazim into his many lectures and articles:
Finally, we have Orly Wahba, the Mister Rogers of the community, who does not seem to know much about anything – except being “Kind”:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/xhSY-H0Sa5k/_sC_ivmZBQAJ
“Kindness” in the SY community is a very dubious proposition!
As it was for Fred Rogers:
Kindness and Justice are not at all the same thing in this debased context. It is all about ego-fulfillment and gratification for the well-off, who, as we have learned, use their self-esteem to pulverize the poor and less fortunate.
Very Trumpist.
Ms. Wahba’s work is as vanilla pablum as it comes, but occasionally drives off a cliff when she cites Henry Ford or Richard DeVos:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/Davidshasha/devos/davidshasha/BEbGO6Xi3WQ/Kbnx7k7sDgAJ
She once taught at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, another bastion of Anti-Sephardi radicalism:
To reinforce the point, YOFHS recently hosted the eminent Sephardi-hater Rabbi Meir Soloveichik:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/Gm1W7pJHRYI/LArV53KjBQAJ
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_IlYH_2eGWV6KlgtvMBvSxeNZvVNR8n/view?ths=true
The Brooklyn SY community is very much antagonistic to its own cultural-intellectual traditions, as we have seen in the case of the disappearance of their greatest scholar Hakham Matloub Abadi:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/Ox-wE_ec5zo/GX_d4kVXBQAJ
The nihilistic architect of this destruction was Isaac Shalom, Abadi’s nemesis; the subject of a very incisive article on the community by Daniel Harari:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sa4YGX4v5w3BRWFS6WfGVwICemodsyPVfmu2gt6_IJA/edit
Shalom was a proto-Trump authoritarian figure whose money and control of business relations in the community allowed him to completely dominate rabbis and religious institutions; effectively raising him to de facto head of the community in the post-War era.
He determined that the future was not with the Sephardic heritage, but with Ashkenazi Orthodoxy. He was known for his base cruelty and lack of compassion for others, and successfully transformed the religio-ethical landscape of the community in a definitive manner.
It was in this way that the SY community ultimately became what it is today.
I discussed the community’s moral malfeasance in the following article which focused on what I have called the “Rabbis of Ashley Madison”; the expeditious bagmen who enable the crooked oligarchs who run things with an iron fist:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/6iE62TtdHzE/MPh44iuJDAAJ
The article leads off with an article from The Real Deal which looks at the SY real estate moguls and their vast financial empires:
https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/dominating-deal/
It is an article that follows up on the Zev Chafets 2007 New York Times article “The SY Empire”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/magazine/14syrians-t.html?pagewanted=all
We should note that the Murderer-in-Chief’s very good friend Stanley Chera became a victim of his Lysol malfeasance:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/business/stanley-chera-coronavirus-trump/index.html
And Jarvanka has been seen in Deal cavorting with their SY pals:
The decrepit Kushner paterfamilias has a luxury spread in Long Branch, right in the SY Jersey Shore wheelhouse:
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/charles-kushners-house/view/google/
So, in spite of the deleterious effects of Trump’s China tariffs on many SY businesses, and the general economic pit into which he has thrown the country, it seems that they have not abandoned him:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eMLkddIzyHpt1KyHnWkR83q0F5kveL4w/view?ths=true
The Trump-Pence Victory caravan will be coming to Deal on August 9th!
Trump is very much like the SYs, as I indicated with the opening words of this article:
Greed, Ignorance, Malevolence, Cruelty, and Secrecy.
Reading the Deal event announcement, it is very clear that on this go-around no SY names would be made part of the public record, as was the case in 2016:
That Real Deal article provides a smattering of information about the SY role in the immediate aftermath of the victory.
Reading the Deal event flyer to the bitter end, we see that there is some concern about secrecy:
Any tampering or editing of this document is prohibited.
A post in The Yeshiva World (!) provided an additional piece of information to the mystery:
The Lysol campaign event will take place at the late Chera’s estate.
But in order to get the full poop, you will have to RSVP and get out your checkbook and/or credit card, as the minimum ante is over $5,000!
Rolling with the Lysol crowd is not for the riff-raff.
Indeed, we wonder whether or not there will be a mask mandate at the event:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/politics/trump-us-mask-mandate-coronavirus/index.html
Lysol rejects such a mandate, and in point of fact has added a waiver of Trump Organization responsibility for those who sign up to attend his public campaign events:
And that is a good thing for him, as a number of those who attended his sparsely-attended Oklahoma Fascist Rally contracted the Trumpdisease, which soon led to a surge in cases:
https://time.com/5864434/tulsa-trump-rally-coronavirus-surge/
One of the rallygoers, Herman Cain, a true Trumpscum to the bitter end, actually died from it:
https://time.com/5874219/herman-cain-dies-legacy-trump/
I am curious to see how the extra-cautious SYs, who have to their credit been extremely responsible and punctilious when it comes to maintaining the COVID restrictions, will deal with the usual Lysol anarchy at the event.
Maybe they will be given free doses of Hydroxychloroquine at the door:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/fauci-trump-ineffective-coronavirus-treatment-383809
“I happen to think it works”!
Or maybe some Lysol:
So, in spite of the economic collapse and the Trumpdeath scourge, the SY oligarchs have done very well by Trump, and are clearly intent on seeing him get a second term.
It is quite doubtful that Joe Biden will be passing through Deal anytime soon!
The SY-Lysol relationship clearly spells out for us what the community now stands for.
It is unclear exactly who in the community actually supports him or will vote for him in November, but such theoretical unknowns are not important when it comes to the SY community.
What is important is what those wealthy men who control the community desire, and which must then be dutifully followed by the hoi polloi.
As some of us have learned, it is very much a matter of life and death.
There is no freedom of speech in the community, and controversial public statements are squashed by a vicious internal censorship mechanism that would serve to punish anyone straying from the SY primrose path.
Most depressing is the way that the nihilistic Isaac Shalom standards have been reinforced over generations. The social demands are so strict that the normalization of the Shalom pathology, as has been the case with Trump, is now complete; children grow up without any sense that things were ever different. They have been transmitted a culture of ignorance and malevolence that has become routine for them. Any attempt to criticize or change it is met with deep contempt and hostility.
The SY youth are all in with the program and maintain the system in a robotic fashion, lacking any intellectual curiosity or moral questioning of the debased culture. There is really little hope that anything will change in the future.
It is a stifling way of life, that has been critically discussed by two exiles, both Gay, Isaac Mizrahi and David Adjmi:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/isaac-mizrahi-memoir
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/adam-kirsch-review-david-adjmi
Yet again we see the intrusion of Tikvah Tablet Alana Newhouse in the shaming of the community, as she continues to expose her primal hatred of the Sephardic heritage in her White Jewish Supremacy domain.
Tellingly, both Mizrahi and Adjmi have deployed the classic SY huckster style in clawing their way to the top of the media heap. And it is worth noting that their brash rhetoric does not display any inkling of what it actually means to be a Sephardic Jew; their sole aim is to trash the community and characterize themselves as survivors of the SY apocalypse.
They have not strayed as far from the reservation as they, and their fans, might want to believe.
There is really not that much difference between Joey Sitt and the two Gay SYs; they are all jockeying in the public arena to make names for themselves and peddle their product with showing any concern for the intellectual traditions of the Sephardim. It is all about positioning and getting a comfortable spot in the media landscape to cash in handsomely.
It is ultimately a lose-lose for the Sephardic heritage.
Donald Trump and the SY community are a marriage made in self-hating psychopath heaven. It is a union of barbarous cruelty and rapacious greed.
For those who refuse to acquiesce to the prime directive, it is a painful way of life, which I discussed very briefly in my article on the ZOOM Seder controversy, which I opened with a tribute to my friend Abe Rudy, one of the last of the Matloub traditionalists:
Abe’s precious legacy as a Levantine Jewish Humanist has sadly been ignored by many members of our Brooklyn Syrian Sephardic community, and it is my sincere wish that his noble values be remembered and actualized by those who have so cruelly abandoned them.
His sage advice to me gave me the strength to continue doing the holy work of Sephardic renewal under what have become extremely adverse circumstances. I hope that I have lived up to his exacting standards.
As I have continued to insist, the SY community has abandoned its most precious values, and the close relationship with Trumpworld is part and parcel with a descent into degeneracy that began many years ago with Isaac Shalom and his brutal rejection of our Torah Judaism, in favor of the mercenary narcissism that we have now come to associate with the sociopath Donald Trump.
David Shasha