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Allen Ginsberg

A New Jersey Jew and son of a school teacher and a communist party member, Ginsberg was ejected from Columbia university after being caught in bed with star football player Jack Kerouac. Shortly thereafter he had an auditory hallucination of the works of William Blake which set him on a path to become the leading light of 1950’s Beat poetry. His mentor William Carlos Williams introduced him to the San Francisco scene where Ginsberg unveiled his most famous work “Howl,” the subject of an obscenity law suit. He then departed for Paris, Morroco, India and ultimately Prague where he was crowned King of the May Day parade before being deported. He later took to Buddhism and was present at the legendary Be-In which passed the torch from the Beats to the Hippies. Continue Reading »

NY Magazine cover after Spitzer's resignation.

NY Magazine cover after Spitzer's resignation.

A Riverdale raised Harvard Jew, Spitzer barely survived a year in office as Governor of New York before being taken down by a scandal linking him to a high-end prostitution ring. He worked for Robert Morgenthau and brought down Gambino crime family control of the garment district and then with help from his father became New York state Attorney General. Known at least to himself as the steamroller he went after white collar crime, computer chip price fixing, stock price inflation and Richard Grasso’s compensation package as chairman from the New York Stock Exchange. Before the scandal with is friend Ashley DuPree, he was already in hot water for ordering the State Police to record the wherabouts of his arch nemesis Joseph Bruno. He also failed in his attempts to legalize same-sex marriage and provide drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. Continue Reading »

Paul Rubenfeld from Peekskill’s Mom was a teacher and his dad was one of the founding pilots of the Israel Air Force. After starting out in the Circus and stand up, he was rejected from Saturday night live. He created his own show on children’s television “Peewee’s Playhouse.” After a successful film career was semi over , in 1991 he was arressted for masturbating publicly in an adult theater during a screening of “Nurse Nancy.” As he result of this he lost his reruns right by CBS. In 2002, he was arressted in connection with child pornography, though he claims he was apparently only a collector of vintage erotica. Continue Reading »

Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate

Born Rajmund Liebling, one of the world’s great film directors emerged out of the Krakow ghetto and the ruins of Polish Jewry. After survival and success, Polanski than had to experience the awful torment of the murder of his pregnant and beautiful wife, Sharon Tate by the Manson Family. A decade later, after admitting to unlawful intercourse with a 13 year old to the LA DA, Polanski fled to France before his eventual imprisonment. He is today a member of the Academie Francaise and also a fugitive from American justice. He had to receive his Best Director Oscar via satellite, he would be arrested upon disembarking from a plane. Continue Reading »

A Hungarian refugee Jew, though better known as father of the hydrogen bomb. Teller had a major role in the Manhattan Project, though is better known for his belief in nuclear weapons as a cure all in the post-war world. He testified against his former boss Oppenheimer during the McCarthy era, he defended star wars in the Reagan era and advocated making a new harbor in Alaska with nuclear weapons. He was part of the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove though will forever be remembered as the man who laid the groundwork for the move from a fission to fusion weapon bringing us one step closer to the full capacity of human self-destruction. Continue Reading »

The .44 caliber killer who terrorized New York during the blackout summer of 1977. New York’s own serial killer, when caught he asked the cops “what took you so long?” and promptly confessed to killing six and wounding seven others. While in jail he claimed he was commanded to kill by a neighbor’s dog that was possessed by a demon. He also admitted to lighting over a thousand incidents of arson during that summer when the Bronx burned. Later, he changed his story revealing that he only killed three while members of a satanic cult killed the rest, a story some law enforcement figures have found credible. Continue Reading »

Baruch Goldstein

A Flatbush Yeshiva educated Brooklyn Jew, Baruch Golstein graduated Albert Einstein College and joined the Jewish Defense League. He served the IDF as a doctor, and lived in the Kiryat Arba settlement outside Hebron. One year after being recommended to promotion to the rank of Major, on Purim 1994, Goldstein, wearing his army uniform, entered a mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs and opened fire, killing 29 and wounding 150. He was stopped and subsequently beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. It remains in dispute whether Goldstein refused to treat non-Jews in the army, his grave was a pilgrimage site until it was bulldozed by the Army. Continue Reading »

Yigal Amir

An Orthodox, Sephardic Israeli, as a right wing law student at Bar-Ilan Amir was already organizing protest rallies against the Oslo accords. He hatched a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On November 4th, 1995, after a pro-peace rally, Amir shot one of Israel’s most courageous soldiers (and first Sabra and non-Polish Prime minister) twice in the back with a Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol. Upon hearing that Rabin was dead, Amir told the police he was “satisfied.” In prison for life, after a scuffle surrounding in virto fertilization with his life he has recently been allowed conjugal visits that were long denied him. Continue Reading »

Mordechai Vanunu

This Moroccan Jew, or shall we now call him John Crossman of the Anglican Church of Australia, was an Israeli nuclear technician gave photos of and revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press. He was captured by the Mossad in Rome and was convicted of treason. He spent 18 years in prison and then refused to speak Hebrew when he was released. Continue Reading »

Israel Shahak

A Polish-born Israeli Professor of chemistry who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen Belsen, he died suddenly at the age of 68 from diabetes. He was a supporter of a Palestinian state even before the Six Day War. In 1970, he was elected president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. A centerpiece of his work was the translation of the Hebrew press which he claimed was being distorted in English language editions. His later works supported his thesis that Talmudic Judaism was totalitarian and that “Jewish chauvinism” can be a causal factor in anti-Semitism. Continue Reading »

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