BT In A New Key
A blog for people who seek alternative approaches to kiruv and the baal teshuvah experience.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Jews without mitzvos
David Tepper, founder of the Wall Street Appaloosa hedge fund and owner of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, currently has a net worth exceeding $20 billion and is notoriously known as a ruthless figure who never forgets a grudge.
Back when Tepper was young, he worked as a trader at Goldman Sachs, making a fortune for the firm. But his then-department head and Goldman CEO, Jon Corzine, found his loud voice and crude manners unrefined, rejecting his promotion to Goldman partner twice in a row. Furious, Tepper quit to start his own venture, nailing the precise bottom of the subprime mortgage crisis to become the most profitable fund godfather on Wall Street. As for that former boss who once looked down on him, Corzine later not only went bankrupt in business but also got divorced. Upon hearing the news, Tepper shelled out a whopping $43.5 million in cash to buy the family's beloved oceanfront estate in the Hamptons, New York; after getting the keys, he never even stepped inside for a day, instead calling in heavy bulldozers to raze the mansion his ex-boss had lived in for years right then and there, smashing it to bits. Then, on the very same spot, he built a new palace twice the size of the original—just to vent his spleen.Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Jewish Population by U.S. State :
Jewish Population by U.S. State :
🇺🇸 New York — 1,795,000 (9.1%)
🇺🇸 California — 1,240,000 (3.2%)
🇺🇸 Florida — 672,000 (3.0%)
🇺🇸 New Jersey — 628,000 (6.8%)
🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — 434,000 (3.3%)
🇺🇸 Illinois — 325,000 (2.6%)
🇺🇸 Massachusetts — 302,000 (4.3%)
🇺🇸 Maryland — 240,000 (3.9%)
🇺🇸 Texas — 176,000 (0.6%)
🇺🇸 Ohio — 150,000 (1.3%)
🇺🇸 Virginia — 151,000 (1.7%)
🇺🇸 Georgia — 141,000 (1.3%)
🇺🇸 Arizona — 124,000 (1.7%)
🇺🇸 Michigan — 120,000 (1.2%)
🇺🇸 Connecticut — 118,000 (3.3%)
🇺🇸 Colorado — 98,000 (1.7%)
🇺🇸 Nevada — 80,000 (2.5%)
🇺🇸 Washington — 79,000 (1.0%)
🇺🇸 Missouri — 69,000 (1.1%)
🇺🇸 Minnesota — 66,000 (1.2%)
🇺🇸 Oregon — 60,000 (1.4%)
🇺🇸 District of Columbia — 57,000 (8.5%)
🇺🇸 North Carolina — 49,000 (0.5%)
🇺🇸 Wisconsin — 33,000 (0.6%)
🇺🇸 Indiana — 26,000 (0.4%)
🇺🇸 Tennessee — 23,000 (0.3%)
🇺🇸 Rhode Island — 19,000 (1.7%)
🇺🇸 Kentucky — 18,000 (0.4%)
🇺🇸 Kansas — 17,000 (0.6%)
🇺🇸 Delaware — 17,000 (1.6%)
🇺🇸 South Carolina — 17,000 (0.3%)
🇺🇸 Louisiana — 15,000 (0.3%)
🇺🇸 New Mexico — 13,000 (0.6%)
🇺🇸 Maine — 13,000 (0.9%)
🇺🇸 New Hampshire — 10,000 (0.7%)
🇺🇸 Alabama — 10,000 (0.2%)
🇺🇸 Nebraska — 9,000 (0.5%)
🇺🇸 Vermont — 8,000 (1.2%)
🇺🇸 Hawaii — 7,000 (0.5%)
🇺🇸 Utah — 6,000 (0.2%)
🇺🇸 Iowa — 5,000 (0.2%)
🇺🇸 Alaska — 5,000 (0.7%)
🇺🇸 Oklahoma — 4,000 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 West Virginia — 2,000 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 Arkansas — 2,000 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 Idaho — 2,000 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 Mississippi — 1,500 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 Montana — 1,500 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 Wyoming — 1,400 (0.2%)
🇺🇸 North Dakota — 400 (0.1%)
🇺🇸 South Dakota — 250 (0.0%)
U.S. overall — ~7.46 million (2.2%)
Note: Estimates from the American Jewish Year Book (2023). Includes core Jewish population. Highest shares in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and D.C. Figures are approximate and rounded.
Source: American Jewish Year Book / Jewish Virtual Library.
colonised mind
"A colonised mind will fight harder to protect the image of the master's image, than to recover its own dignity"
Franz FanonMonday, November 2, 2026
megalomaniac
a megalomaniac whose executive brain function is incapable of measuring risks and self-preservation

