good or evil

 

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.

Tepper was born on September 11, 1957.^[6] He is the second of three children of Harry, an accountant, and Roberta, an elementary school teacher.^[7] He was raised in a Jewish family in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[8] 

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 Fanon

Abused zoo bear still circling in an imaginary cage after being freed

 

Carlin

 

megalomaniac

  a megalomaniac whose executive brain function is incapable of measuring risks and self-preservation

George Harrison's house

 

and he's supposed to be the spiritual one

Jews without mitzvahs, edition 100

Who was the accountant who ripped off al pacino?

The accountant was Kenneth Starr — no relation to the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton.1 2

Starr was a Bronx-born celebrity accountant and money manager whose client list was a Hollywood Who's Who: Al Pacino, Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese, Natalie Portman, Carly Simon, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Lauren Bacall, Neil Simon, and Barbara Walters, among others.1 2 He ran a Ponzi-style scheme, using money from some clients' accounts to cover shortfalls in others', and reportedly pocketed as much as $59 million.2 3

Pacino says he started getting warnings around 2011 that his accountant "was not to be trusted," but his lavish spending masked the problem — a Beverly Hills mansion, a Gulfstream 550, and an entire floor of the Dorchester hotel in London.4 5 He wasn't even signing his own checks; Starr was.4 6 When Pacino finally looked, his $50 million was gone.7 8

Starr pleaded guilty in September 2010 and was sentenced in March 2011 to 7.5 years in prison.1 3 The judge, Shira Scheindlin, went lenient partly on the reasoning that his victims were rich and didn't go broke — a claim Pacino might dispute.1

The fallout reshaped Pacino's career: he took roles he didn't care about, starting with Jack and Jill, because he needed the money.7 5

Yes, Kenneth Starr was Jewish.1 2

Starr was the youngest of three sons born to a public-school principal in the South Bronx. He entered Queens College at the age of fifteen. He is Jewish.

Note from a Machon Shlomo student

Consider how insane that place was, we were supposed to get an introduction to Judaism and all we got was an overwhelming shiur on the daf without having received any background on the Talmud. That and the son in law, a 30 year old BT from Trinity College, reading the Chumash to us. All within a cold and competitive environment run by a tyrannical moron. 

We weren't taught Judaism, about mitzvahs, marriage, tefillah, halacha, Hebrew, history, philosophy. 

All done in an isolated setting without a library or community.

It was outrageous what they did to us. 

Larry Bird remembers

 “Larry Bird remembers when players that later went bankrupt made fun of him for saving his money:”

Even when I was at the top of my game, we didn't drive a Mercedes-Benz or live in million-dollar homes, things like that. When I first started playing, we bought a nice little house in the French Lick/West Baden area. It cost $125,000. We didn't run out and spend all our money because we knew there would be a time when it was over, and I wanted to have options on what we could do with our future. I never thought about retiring. I just assumed I would always work." "Some of the guys who made far less than me bought the $700,000 homes, and the ROLEXwatches, and the big luxury cars. I used to tell them, "You're crazy, you should be saving your money." They'd just laugh and make jokes about me stashing my money away. But I could see what they were doing. They were throwing away their future. So many of them were living for today and not even stopping for a minute to think about ten years down the road when their playing careers were over and the money stopped pouring in. And by the time they realized what I was telling them was true, it was too late.I can't tell you how many ex-teammates have asked me for money. It's heartbreaking for me to say no, but I do because I warned them. I told them to save."

Travel as much as you can while you're young.

 At 67, here's one piece of advice I'd give anyone under 30:

Travel as much as you can while you're young. You don't need to be rich. Fly economy. Stay in hostels. Take overnight trains. Backpack across borders. Sleep on a friend's couch. Eat street food. Get lost in places where nobody speaks your language. Leave your comfort zone and experience the world beyond the one you've always known. Dance with locals. Try unfamiliar foods. Listen to cathedral bells echo through ancient streets and hear the call to prayer drift across a crowded city. Walk through little alleyways, share meals with strangers, and make friends with people whose lives look nothing like yours. Learn how other cultures think, love, work, celebrate, and survive. Discover that people can speak different languages, follow different traditions, and believe different things while still sharing the same hopes, fears, and dreams. The world is much bigger than your hometown, your social circle, or what you see on a screen. Travel won't just give you beautiful photographs and unforgettable stories. It'll challenge your assumptions, humble you, broaden your perspective, and teach you to appreciate things you once took for granted. Don't spend your entire youth waiting until you have more money, a better job, or the perfect time. You can always earn more money, but you can't buy back the years you spent being afraid to explore. Go see the world. Meet its people. Embrace its differences. And when you return home, bring back more than souvenirs. Bring back a wider perspective, a more open heart, and a deeper understanding of humanity. The best thing travel can give you isn't a passport full of stamps. It's a mind that has expanded and a heart that has learned to see the world differently.

in defense of

 

400 feet

 

Ohio among least expensive housing cost in country. NJ and NY among highest

 NY 527,. NJ 580

Ohio 249

Be like Ohio

Alex Forbes

- Lake Erie to the North - Ohio River to the South - Tons of farming - Major steel mfg hub - Rolling hills, deep gorges, plenty of water - Some of the most fertile soil in the country - 75 state parks. Free to enter every one - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - 8 major pro teams: Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Cavs, Blue Jackets, Crew, FC Cincinnati - Reds: the first professional baseball team in America - NFL founded in Canton. Pro Football Hall of Fame is still there - 750+ golf courses - 100-mile Towpath Trail for biking and hiking - Major Universities: Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami, Kent State, Toledo, Dayton, Xavier - Big city energy with reasonable cost of living. - Small Town America kindness and hospitality - Excellent place to raise a family - Top rated school systems - Cleveland Clinic: an elite hospital system - A day's drive from about 60% of the US population - One of the country's biggest logistics hubs in the country - Plenty of jobs: HQ for P&G, Kroger, Wendy's, Smucker's, Cardinal Health - Armstrong: first man on the moon. Glenn: first American to orbit Earth. Both Ohioans - Wright Brothers built the airplane in Dayton - Edison, born in Ohio - Home of 7 US Presidents - Cedar Point voted best amusement park in the world, over and over - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Thriving environment for small business - 4 full seasons - Named the best state in the country by Bert Kreischer