The Haredim will inherit the (Jewish) world (Updated, 12/29/2010)

In my article on the Geert Wilders phenomenon, I referenced Eric Kaufmann’s book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? to support the idea that the Haredim are the future of Israeli politics. My exposure to the book was this video:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo

A reader who has read the book provided some interesting data:

The Haredi fertility rate was 6.49 from 1980–82.  In 1990–96 it actually rose to 7.61 and has remained there. By 2020 Haredi will double their share of the Israeli population to 17%.  Shortly after 2050 they’re projected to be the majority of Israeli Jews, even in the unlikely event that their fertility converges with that of secularists by 2030.

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Interestingly, Haredi will also be the majority of British Jews by 2050.  According to one scholar whom Kaufmann seems unsure of, Haredim make up 17% British Jews but 75% of births.

According to the Israeli Bureau of Statistics for the Ministry of Education, a third of Jewish schoolchildren will be studying in Haredi classrooms by 2012. That’s compared to a few percent in 1960, 12% in 1992 and 27% in 2007. (Addendum, 12/29/2010: The New York Times reports that “If current trends continue, it said, 78 percent of primary school children in Israel by 2040 will be either ultra-Orthodox or Arab.” Israel returns to its Middle Eastern roots. There is widespread concern about this in Israel because 60% of Heredi men and more than 50% of Heredi women do not work. “Most are dependent on welfare payments like income support, child allowances or married student stipends.” They are also reluctant to join the military, although the military has made allowances for them in recent years.)

To compare with the Haredi statistics cited above, Israeli Arab fertility went from 8.5 in 1950 to 4 by the late 80s. Jews from the Middle East living in Israel went from 6 in 1950 to about 3 in 1980. Secular Jews formerly immigrated to Israel. Now, they’re actually leaving. In 2007 more Jews left Israel than entered.

On Haredi political power

In 2003 Uri Lupolianski became the first Haredi mayor of Jerusalem. In the election, 90% of the Heredim voted compared to 32 percent of other Jews. In 2008 the Haredi candidate Meir Porush lost 52-48, but according to Kaufmann “the eventual Haredi domination of the Jerusalem mayor’s office is as certain as was the ascent of the Irish in the municipal politics of Boston, New York and Chicago.”

In 1984 Haredi parties controlled six seats in the Knesset. In 2009 they had 18, or fifteen percent of the body.

On the increasing number of Haredi in America

From 2000 to 2006 alone Haredim went from 7.2 percent to 9.4 percent of American Jewry. At this rate they will constitute the majority of American Jews by 2050.

So we can end up with a situation where the Haredi Jews are the majority of American, British and Israeli Jews by 2050, the Day of Judgment for Whites!

As I noted in the article on Wilders, one wonders how long the image of Jews as liberal, humane, champions of the downtrodden can continue when such large percentages of Jews are Haredim, not to mention what is going on in Israel.

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35 Comments to "The Haredim will inherit the (Jewish) world (Updated, 12/29/2010)"

  1. barb's Gravatar barb
    December 28, 2010 - 8:31 pm | Permalink

    Dr. MacDonald,
    Is this trend of Haredim becoming the majority a Good Thing for Whites, perhaps?

    It seems to me, one reason Jews (secular ones) get away unchallenged with much of their anti-White activism is because most people see them as just White, don’t even recognize the Jewishness, or, if they even do, dismiss it as irrelevant.

    But since the Haredi dress differently and make no bones about the fact that they see themselves as separate from regular White people, it seems to me that this will help awaken Whites’ “social immune system” against Jewish antics, make them SEE the “otherness,” and get them to fight back.

    • Jason Speaks's Gravatar Jason Speaks
      December 28, 2010 - 9:42 pm | Permalink

      I wonder about that too. I have never found the deeply religious Jews to be as much a threat as the secular Jews. But one troublesome point: Israel has quite a few nuclear weapons and soon they will be dominated by what appears to be a zealous religious population – that can’t be good for the region.

  2. Glen's Gravatar Glen
    December 29, 2010 - 1:10 am | Permalink

    Could this demographic trend eventually spell the end of Jewish crypsis? As you noted in Culture of Critique, a key feature of Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy in the post-enlightenment West has been to disguise Judaism under the veil of the ostensibly secular intellectual movements you identified.

    If the future of the Jewish people is the Haredim one would assume this strategy of crypto-Judaism will inevitably end, and that Jews will reclaim the conspicuous Jewish indentity they maintained in pre-Enlightenment ghettoized Europe.

    • Jason Speaks's Gravatar Jason Speaks
      December 29, 2010 - 1:29 am | Permalink

      Yes, I find the Jon Stewart/Bill Maher type of Jew much more dangerous than ultraorthodox religious Jews, specifically because they blend in and pose as Whites.

    • Tom's Gravatar Tom
      December 29, 2010 - 9:25 am | Permalink

      My educated guess is that you will see the secular, or reform Jews become more conservative, and, orthodox in future years.

      The Jews are an Asian cult, and how goes Asia, so goes the Jews.

  3. Student's Gravatar Student
    December 29, 2010 - 8:38 am | Permalink

    In some respects it seems like a perfect storm – 2050 is the generally outlined date at which whites will become a minority in their own countries in Europe and American. If this ever actually happens (that is to say, if whites don’t have some kind of revolution before them), it will coincide perfectly with the Haredi takeover of the Jewry.

  4. Barbara's Gravatar Barbara
    December 29, 2010 - 9:47 am | Permalink

    When i think of Ashkanazi, the first rule is that numbers don’t matter.

  5. Dan's Gravatar Dan
    December 29, 2010 - 3:53 pm | Permalink

    The high birth rate is being sustained by Western welfare transfer payments. Indeed, liberalism has sewn the seeds of Western destruction.

  6. Dan's Gravatar Dan
    December 29, 2010 - 3:59 pm | Permalink

    My comment was beyond the scope of the article, which focused on orthodox growth within Judaism. But I refer to the parallel in the broader world. I don’t share as much enthusiasm for the secular Jews easily giving up their power and leverage because they have so much concentrated wealth.

  7. Someday's Gravatar Someday
    December 29, 2010 - 4:25 pm | Permalink

    I suspect Eric Kaufmann’s predictions for the UK are not taking the effect of continuing immigration into account. As Enoch Powell said it’s not a case of emptying a pool; they are trying to bail out the ocean. And if he had really read Gunnar Heinsohn he would understand why the estimate of the percentage of the UK population he cites is going to be of secondary importance to the the age structure of the UK Muslims, especially relative to that of whites.

    Psuedo -liberal Jews have encouraged the egalitarian and universalistic tendencies of WASPs but to do that they had to pay a price: adopting the WASP lifestyle. In the long term the liberal ‘do the decent thing’ WASP elite are going to take the secular ‘liberal’ Jews down into the demographic abyss with them.

    In the long term an actual race war may not be unlikely but the Haredim are going to be hidden away from scrutiny as long as possible by an increasingly tiny secular Jewish elite.

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 3, 2011 - 5:37 pm | Permalink

      Someday, I see a glimmer of reality here, standing out against the sea of paranoia and monomania.
      What sennse is there to obsess over a couple of million Haredi Jews? The billion Moslems all sharpening their scimitars for long-awaited revenge against the “Crusaders” is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

    • Athanasius's Gravatar Athanasius
      January 3, 2011 - 5:55 pm | Permalink

      And what are we going to do about it?

      1) We ignore massacres of Christians all over the Middle East (even in places like Turkey where they’ve already been reduced from 100% to less than 1%).

      2) Germany, the UK, Sweden, and France (and now Spain, Italy, and Greece) allow immigration of vast numbers of hostile Muslims.

      3) In the US, we go so far as to recruit them to displace whites from medical schools.

      4) All the while, we’re regaled with fantasies of Ottoman and Moorish tolerance and enlightenment by our elites.

      Now who is responsible for all this?

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 3, 2011 - 6:33 pm | Permalink

      Who, Athanasius?
      Must be Jerry Seinfeld. Or Jerry Lewis, maybe?

    • Athanasius's Gravatar Athanasius
      January 3, 2011 - 8:21 pm | Permalink

      You’re the one directing our attention toward the brutal Arabian hordes.

      Those of us in the USA were quite happy to have left them to stew in their decrepitude. I’m sure many a Christian immigrant came here from the Balkans or the Middle East thinking that they had left the fat pashas behind forever. They certainly aren’t in an position to affect our lives except insofar as we let them… and yet here we are.

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 3, 2011 - 8:54 pm | Permalink

      “Decrepitude”? Pakistan might have the youngest population of any country on earth!
      As far back as the early ’80′s, our friends in Israel along with certain American academics tried to warn us that militant Islam was not an asset of the United States. But President Jimmy Carter, whose views on Israel are well known now, and the fanatically anti-Russian Zbigniew Brzezinski his National Security Adviser thought enlisting the Afghan Mujahideen as proxies to battle the Soviets was a swell idea.
      The Russians were defeated but the price was Osama Bin Laden.

    • Athanasius's Gravatar Athanasius
      January 3, 2011 - 9:15 pm | Permalink

      Have you ever been to Cairo? If decrepitude isn’t the correct word to describe it, I don’t know what is. I can’t imagine Karachi is much better. In any event, they might have young citizens, by they are a decrepit civilization.

      You are right that Brzezinski seems to have let his ethnic chauvinism color is policy recommendations–but it is hardly unique to him.

  8. lewis's Gravatar lewis
    December 29, 2010 - 10:02 pm | Permalink

    Everyone keeps thinking of a future race war, well helooo…the race war has been ongoing for the past 50 years, and here are just 3 of its stealthy but deadly methods…

    1)the unleashing of millions of angered, hate filled blacks and mestizos upon us.
    has anyone compiled the numbers of whites
    murdered/raped/destroyed by blacks and mestizos since 1960?

    2)the drug culture, where our kids get to destroy themselves and their kids as well…has anyone even an inkling of the destruction caused over the last 50 years of heroin, cocaine, marihuana, methamphetamine, etc?

    3)the sex and pornography culture, where our kids get to destroy themselves and their descendants as well…has anyone even begun to conceive the wreckage created by the culture of free sex, abortion and pornography?

    One could easily venture to say that over the past 50 years at least 100 million whites have died, while the rest have been wounded or incapacitated….in the USA alone!!
    I tremble at the total number of white victims if we took into account whites in europe, canada, australia, africa, latin america, etc. that have been destroyed from these 3 causes alone over the past 50 years.

    Someone please compile

    • peter the painter's Gravatar peter the painter
      December 30, 2010 - 7:15 am | Permalink

      In Australia the dominant PC theme has been how many aboriginals have been killed by whites. A unique Queensland study showed many many hundreds of white settlers were killed, and that did not include double the number that were murdered and cannibalised after ship wrecks in the Torres Straits and the Gt Barrier Reef. I doubt if much is done in other states except Tasmania. However, I have been systematically collecting data and will be able in several years to give some surprising figures. Perhaps Lewis could contact me direct via TOO. Peter the Painter

    • Karos Loron's Gravatar Karos Loron
      December 31, 2010 - 12:37 pm | Permalink

      The Race War started out as a stealth campaign but one can now see emerging from the shadows the form of the enemy as their mask drops: The Haredim!

      A sinister surfacing is taking place, one can see it everywhere… demands for traitor Pollard to be freed, demands by Jewish journalist opinion writers to attack Iran, demands for Whites to self-immolate by the likes of Tim Wise!

      Awaken and resist!

  9. Peter's Gravatar Peter
    December 30, 2010 - 12:21 am | Permalink

    I felot ill listening to the fat Jewish liberal who took the podium after the author and essentially said the authors views were dangerous and so very un-liberal. We should pretend all is well and the bad guys are really good and we should suck up to them. People like him are leading us to mass suicide! Can’t someone just shot him?

  10. JJ's Gravatar JJ
    December 30, 2010 - 12:57 pm | Permalink

    Interesting, the speakers were discussing how to “conserve” liberalism.

  11. Rod Mckenzie's Gravatar Rod Mckenzie
    December 31, 2010 - 11:22 am | Permalink

    As the Ashkenazi birth rate plummets the Jews with the high birth rate and lower IQ will dominate in the Jewish world. The Jewish influence in the world will decrease in general. Israel will eventually collapse as the payments from the US will dry up eventually as the US becomes less and less of a player in the world. Without the Jews to pull strings for them in the western world, the generally low IQ Muslims will be easy to control. Don’t ever forget that a couple of hundred thousand British controlled over four hundred million Indians for over two hundred years.

  12. omop's Gravatar omop
    December 31, 2010 - 2:05 pm | Permalink

    Interesting exposition Dr. MacDonald.

    How does the following tie-in or not with the Haredim?

    List of Zionist Organisations in the USA

    Ameinu
    American Friends of Likud
    American Gathering/Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
    America-Israel Friendship League
    American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
    American Jewish Committee
    American Jewish Congress
    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
    American Sephardi Federation
    American Zionist Movement
    Americans for Peace Now
    AMIT
    Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
    Association of Reform Zionists of America
    B’nai B’rith International
    Bnai Zion
    Central Conference of American Rabbis
    Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
    State of Israel Bonds/Development Corporation for Israel
    Emunah of America
    Friends of Israel Defense Forces
    Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America
    Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
    Jewish Community Centers Association
    Jewish Council for Public Affairs
    Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
    Jewish Labor Committee
    Jewish National Fund
    Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
    Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America (JWV)
    Jewish Women International
    MERCAZ USA, Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement
    NA’AMAT USA
    NCSJ Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
    National Council of Jewish Women
    National Council of Young Israel
    World ORT – ORT America branch
    Rabbinical Assembly (RA)
    Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)
    Religious Zionists of America (RZA or Mizrahi)
    Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
    Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Orthodox Union or OU)
    United Jewish Communities (UJC)
    United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
    Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
    Women’s League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ)
    Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ)
    Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring)
    World Zionist Executive, US
    Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
    And here is the good bit …
    .
    Every organisation above is ALSO a member of what is called :
    “The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations” (this is the daddy of them all !)
    The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP; often referred to as the Presidents’ Conference) is a “non-profit organisation” that describes itself as “a central address for key American, Israeli and other world leaders to consult on issues of critical concern to the Jewish community.”
    The Conference meets to make major statements or meet with important leaders. The Conference was founded to promote the state of Israel in the USA and that remains its primary task.

  13. Diana's Gravatar Diana
    December 31, 2010 - 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Was it ever really about Israel? Maybe it was about the trillion plus dollars the chosen have robbed from this country for their project in the Middle East. Maybe it was about generating a war between the European, once Christian West and Islam, effectively destroying both. Maybe it was about turning the US into a Third World police state run by international Jewry. Maybe it was about transfering the means of production to A Rothschild Bank “influenced” China and India and permanently destroying the American experiment.

  14. Franklin Ryckaert's Gravatar Franklin Ryckaert
    January 1, 2011 - 2:28 pm | Permalink

    The present day liberal Jews are nothing but descendants
    of orthodox Jews who secularized after their emancipation.
    A greater gene pool of orthodox Jews will generate a
    greater gene pool of secularized Jews and the whole cyclus will start all over again.

  15. mike's Gravatar mike
    January 2, 2011 - 2:32 am | Permalink

    you’re wrong in one thing,
    there will be no jews in israel by 2050, nor will there be any palastinians.

    they have dumped so much depleted and enriched uranium on various parts of palastine & lebanon that it’s blowing back on them.

    also they use palastinian areas as chemical and nuclear dustbins.
    not exactly smart from the perspective of groundwater contamination!

  16. Mihail's Gravatar Mihail
    January 2, 2011 - 5:26 am | Permalink

    This book exposed those who claim to be jews and are not,exposed the creation of globalist institution,United Nations,World Bank etc.Please read this and share it with friends.
    Who Is Esau-Edom.
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/19745589/Who-is-EsauEdom

  17. Steve's Gravatar Steve
    January 2, 2011 - 11:36 am | Permalink

    Maybe by 2050, or even sooner, whites will be a minority in reference to population. But it doesn’t matter in that regard because whites are already a minority today. It’s obvious. We’ve loss all power. We’ve have nothing but laws, regulations, and congressional acts aimed at reducing our economic welfare. The greater majority of whites I run into these days are either white trash, or they are sports loving video game playing hyperactive morons. Most white women have no morals and would rather pursue fake affirmative action careers with their affirmative action college degrees than have a child before the age of 35. And when they do pick a man to be with, they choose some white trash bum that represents the loser they saw Britney Spears with on MTV. White women seem to choose their men by the types of men that the mainstream media shows that they should be with.

    And yes, the previous poster had it dead-on: most whites see the elites as white people as well. They don’t realize that they are jewish or don’t seem to think of it as having any relevance to anything.

    But here’s the question that I’ve wondered about recently: Does it necessarily have to be a bad thing for whites to be a minority in 2050? Meaning, since jews only make up 2% of the population but yet have the absolute most power and influence over everything from global politics to global business, why can’t whites do the same thing when we become smaller in number? Therefore, the jews have flat out proven that just because a group makes up the smallest percent of the population, does not mean they cannot be the most powerful group in the world.

    Regardless, whites have already loss their power anyhow and if you even mention anything about 2050 to any regular white on the streets, they can simply careless. Until whites have their SUVs and cell phones and their stupid non productive service oriented careers taken away from them and are reduced to nothing but dirt and are living in absolute complete poverty and are watching people of other races or ethnic groups flourishing, then maybe, just maybe, they will finally understand what the hell happened. At that point, they will be completely powerless for change.

    • Karos Loron's Gravatar Karos Loron
      January 3, 2011 - 9:40 am | Permalink

      “The greater majority of whites I run into these days are either white trash, or they are sports loving video game playing hyperactive morons. Most white women have no morals and would rather pursue fake affirmative action careers with their affirmative action college degrees than have a child before the age of 35.”

      At some point assuredly the contemporary degradation and decadence shall reach a point that people just will not be able to take this kind of behavior anymore. Perhaps we need to hit bottom like an Alcoholic and then bounce back. Weimar Germany and the reaction to it are an example to point to.

      “Meaning, since jews only make up 2% of the population but yet have the absolute most power and influence over everything from global politics to global business, why can’t whites do the same thing when we become smaller in number? “

      Jews are hyper-ethnocentric and have a tradition of crypsis. Whites just are not on that wave-length at all. Many postulate that Whites are the least ethno-centric of peoples. Ugh how saddening, but it is what it is. “Optimism is cowardice”!! White Nationalists are just going to have to work with what we have got.

  18. January 2, 2011 - 11:10 pm | Permalink

    Haredi? Is that cognate with heredity? They may herald Zion but their prophet is Darwin.

  19. Der weiße Engel's Gravatar Der weiße Engel
    January 3, 2011 - 12:13 am | Permalink

    KMD: “As I noted in the article on Wilders, one wonders how long the image of Jews as liberal, humane, champions of the downtrodden can continue when such large percentages of Jews are Haredim, not to mention what is going on in Israel.”

    This is a persistent mistake of KMD’s, and a lot of other people too. The idea that some point is going to be reached when reason will take over and people will naturally begin to see how the Jews “really” are is an easy mistake to make, but also one that shows a complete lack of understanding of basic human psychology. Such a turning point need never be reached, because people generally have no trouble entertaining two mutually contradictory ideas at once, or believing something that is in direct contradiction to the evidence of their own senses, and they never have. White people believed for literally thousands of years that Jesus would come back from the dead for them, and some even continue to believe it. Yet they know equally well that people don’t come back from the dead. Mere facts can’t touch a religious belief. Similar is the belief in the goodness of the Jews, to which this absurd faith in the Jesus superstition is parentally related. People would literally rather die than give it up.

    Many other examples could be cited. People continue to believe in the humanity of the negro, even though one good, sobering look at him should be enough to prove otherwise. Isn’t the negro’s conduct bad enough yet? Exactly how bad would it have to become to get in order to grant the assessement that the negro is subhuman? Of course, there is no limit. The low IQ, the monkey smell, the racial propensity for cannibalism and the rapes of several hundred American White women each day are insufficient to carry the point. In the same way, if you read Hitler’s Table Talk, a constant theme is the idea that once things have gotten bad enough for the Allies, they’ll wake up to how the Jews have manipulated them. Or after the war, then they’ll finally see. But no! Alas, the people never did see, and never will. Sixty, eighty, or a hundred million dead, and it makes no difference. The mob is irrational, and gropes its way down history’s corridor like a blind man. And even now, these so-called White nationalists haven’t learned anything. They still predict that one day the situation will become so desperate that “the people will wake up” and see the Jews for what they are, even though, more than anyone, they should know better. In response to emotional biases of their own, they refuse to accept the fact that “facts” and “reality” have very little to do with how human opinion is formed.

  20. Nott Meek's Gravatar Nott Meek
    January 3, 2011 - 4:33 pm | Permalink

    DWE makes some interesting points, but the fact is that whites will wake up because we are close to the point where they will be openly kicking us in the teeth. And that is something that the ‘white stock’ of the US will not tolerate when it’s collectively in the position of not worrying about consequences. Those who are aware know exactly what I mean. The jews were able to get away with much in Russia and E. Europe when literally and figuratively kicking people in the face as I mention, because they were amongst basically ‘unarmed’ populations with a certain mindset. The overall white stock of the US has a different ‘instinctual’ make-up compared to those peoples. Look at what eventually happened in Weimar Germany for instance. Whites pushed against a wall, whites of Germanic and Irish background for example, will be ruled by instinct. These people will fight. In many ways.

    Don’t say it can’t happen here. It can. It will. Human nature can only be bound up for so long by artificial situations. It can last for a few generations, then the dam bursts. One analogy is that of sports. Whites were told for decades they couldn’t box as well as the dark folks. Now whites dominate boxing from 150 lbs up. In fact, if the tribe hadn’t gone into a full scale panic and started heavily controlling match-ups (as they did for so long – using media power) whites could possibly have nabbed almost every title from jr. middleweight to heavyweight by now. It hasn’t only been the Slavic fighters either, although some are under this misconception. 10 years ago, scores of whites were telling me that whites dominating boxing at some point was undeniably impossible. The only thing that seems to be undeniable is the fact that jewish hubris always has them misjudging how far they can push things, how much they can ridicule their hosts, how many times they can kick the dog before it bites back.

  21. January 12, 2011 - 1:22 pm | Permalink

    ‘Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring’

    Rabbi Dov Lior rules that Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from getting pregnant using non-Jewish man’s sperm, as it causes adverse traits. On subject of single mothers he says, ‘Child cannot be 100% normal’
    Kobi Nahshoni
    Published: 01.12.11, 08:30

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4006385,00.html

    Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish man – even if it is the last option available.

    According to Lior, a baby born through such an insemination will have the “negative genetic traits that characterize non-Jews.” Instead, he advised sterile couples to adopt.
    Lior addressed the issue during a women’s health conference held recently at the Puah Institute, a fertility clinic. His conservative stance negated a ruling widely accepted by rabbis, which states that sperm donated by a non-Jew is preferable to that of an anonymous Jew, who might pose a genealogical risk.
    “Sefer HaChinuch (a book of Jewish law) states that the character traits of the father pass on to the son,” he said in the lecture. “If the father in not Jewish, what character traits could he have? Traits of cruelty, of barbarism! These are not traits that characterize the people of Israel.”
    Lior added identified Jews as merciful, shy and charitable – qualities that he claimed could be inherited. “A person born to Jewish parents, even if they weren’t raised on the Torah – there are things that are passed on (to him) in the blood, it’s genetic,” he explained. “If the father is a gentile, then the child is deprived of these things.
    “I even read in books that sometimes the crime, the difficult traits, the bitterness – a child that comes from these traits, it’s no surprise that he won’t have the qualities that characterize the people of Israel,” he added.
    ‘Kids born to single moms become criminals’
    Lior condemned artificial insemination and sperm donation in general, saying that they lead to waste of sperm, unclear genealogy and other Jewish law offenses. He warned against undergoing intrauterine insemination at hospitals, where the workers may mix sperm samples for one reason or another – a major halachic violation.

    On the subject of women who freeze their eggs to use at a later date, the rabbi asserted that instead they should concentrate their efforts on getting married younger.
    “Our public has been influenced by a part of the Western culture in which every woman, instead of becoming a mother, needs to get a Masters Degree,” he lamented. “The role of women – child rearing – is not less important than an academic degree.” Lior noted that there is nothing wrong with attaining a profession, but it should not be a priority.
    Moreover, the rabbi spoke against single women getting pregnant.

    “We can understand the desire of every woman to have a child, but according to our Torah it is impossible to address the demand of a certain woman when it can cause someone else suffering,” he said.

    “If a child is born without a father, he cannot be 100% normal.” He stated that rabbinical literature defines these kids as “criminals and subjects of other negative phenomena.”

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 12, 2011 - 9:57 pm | Permalink

      Robert, some of these views are repellent, others are typical of religious or politically conservative public figures. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has been vocal in advocating marriage over continued schooling for women of above average intelligence and as a virtual dictator he was in a position to do something about it. Results have been mixed.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Development_Unit

  22. Guy's Gravatar Guy
    January 13, 2011 - 3:00 pm | Permalink

    The Haredim are still mostly uninvolved in secular matters aside from business. So leftist secular Jews will still predominate.

    The Haredi strategy is one of quantity over quality. Bad strategy.

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