{"id":773,"date":"2014-12-26T01:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T06:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T06:50:05","slug":"ihr-christmas-gathering-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"IHR Christmas Gathering A Huge Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\">IHR Christmas Gathering A Huge Success<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Institute for Historical Review&#8217;s fifth annual Christmas party was held in the organization&#8217;s offices in Orange County, California. Socializing, a potluck supper and four talks filled a pleasant evening of fellowship and friendship.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">IHR Director Mark Weber led off with a review of the past year. The IHR held nine meetings, including one in Virginia, this year with a roster of distinguished speakers, including Professor Tom Sunic and British lawyer Adrian Davies. The IHR maintains an active website . Mr. Weber has given numerous interviews with the U.S. and international press and has spoken at several meeting in Europe, including an enthusiastic reception at the London Forum.\u00a0 The IHR has produced a number of important videos and has increased its distribution of books.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/p261x260\/10888718_402262669939979_3604543460994589563_n.jpg?oh=5160740b8395aea8851048a3ab65f8f8&amp;oe=55324A91&amp;__gda__=1425650295_a122fd4dc8c1a9a90c64e51b3cf00bbd\" alt=\"Frederick Fromm's photo.\" width=\"245\" height=\"327\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Injecting fairness and reasoned historical commentary is the IHR&#8217;s role, he said. &#8220;If the U.S. judged Israel by the same standards we hold Afghanistan and Serbia to, we&#8217;d be sending bombers to Tel Aviv.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Attorney Bill Halsey represented the IHR in the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when their conferences were under attack by the radical terroristic Jewish Defence League (JDL). Venues were cancelled because of terror threats. The IHR&#8217;s offices were bombed and a warehouse filled with revisionist books destroyed, he recalled. The two main JDL culprits died in prison (on other charges), he noted. Mr. Halsey recalled how Congressman John Schmitz , an outspoken conservative on whose campaign he had worked, came to an IHR meeting and vouched for them to a frightened hotel owner, thus saving\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xaf1\/v\/t1.0-9\/p168x128\/1452563_402262936606619_2011536137860523475_n.jpg?oh=e1dcce44bfd906af84a92d9dab7cc6de&amp;oe=552DED2D&amp;__gda__=1425606984_22d44eb8411c0712184123448298b8c8\" alt=\"Frederick Fromm's photo.\" width=\"168\" height=\"224\" \/>their conference. &#8220;All the IHR has ever tried to do is bring &#8216;history&#8217; in tune with the facts,&#8221; he concluded.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Paul Fromm, the Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, discussed the attack on Christmas. This feast, he noted, &#8220;is among the most welcoming and inclusive, in the good sense of the word. The vast majority of Americans and Canadians celebrate Christmas, most as a religious event, but many who are not religious celebrate it as a cultural event as well. Yet, most government officials and many conformist businesses avoid the word and feel they must substitute &#8216;Seasons Greetings&#8217; or &#8216;Happy Holidays&#8217;, as if the word Christmas itself was an obscenity.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The fact is, he added, the word &#8220;Christmas&#8221; is an obscenity for militant Jews who have led the assault over the past six decades, Mr. Fromm explained. The attack on Christmas is the result of growing Jewish media and cultural influence in the past 70 or so years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quoting Edmund Connelly&#8217;s writings on the subject in\u00a0<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Occidental Quarterly<\/span><\/b>\u00a0(2008), Mr. Fromm said: &#8220;<\/span>While much has been written and reported about this assault, few want to situate the attack on Christmas within a larger set of conflicts between Jews and white Christians. But to understand the hostility toward Christmas in America, one must do just that, as Jewish Townhall.com columnist Burt Prelutsky bluntly did in his 2004 column\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41978\" target=\"_blank\">The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The blame for the brisk departure of Christmas observations in so many parts of American life now, Prelutsky argued, can be blamed on \u201cmy fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront. . . . But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society \u2014 it\u2019s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">He then referenced work by historian Michael Hoffman III: &#8220;Christmas is a problematic time for Orthodox rabbis and their followers since it celebrates the birth of the Jesus they hate.\u00a0The rabbinic term for Christmas Eve is\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht,<\/i>\u00a0a night they regard as accursed.\u00a0 There is a rabbinic tradition of refraining from marital relations on\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht.<\/i>\u00a0According to Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, to conceive a child on\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht\u00a0<\/i>will result in the birth of either an apostate or a pimp.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The most prominent rabbinic custom commonly observed on Christmas Eve is to abstain from \u201cTorah\u201d (Talmud) study. There is an anxiety that one\u2019s Talmud study may unwillingly serve as merit for Jesus\u2019 soul, corresponding to the teaching that Talmud study gives respite to the souls of all the wicked.\u00a0Refraining from Talmud study on\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht<\/i>\u00a0also serves as a sign of mourning corresponding to the rabbinic belief that Jesus \u201cwas a\u00a0false messiah who deceived Israel, worshipped a brick, practiced the magic he learned in Egypt and was born of a harlot who conceived while she was\u00a0<i>niddah<\/i>\u00a0(menstruating).\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">There is a Talmudic custom of eating garlic on\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht<\/i>. The reason for this is attributed to the odor of the garlic which is reputed to repel the demonic soul of Jesus, which is supposed to wander on Christmas Eve like Scrooge\u2019s dead partner Marley (cf. the rabbinic text\u00a0<i>Nitei Gavriel Minhagei Nittel<\/i>). Another widespread rabbinic custom in Orthodox Judaism is to make toilet paper on Christmas Eve, a practice made popular among Hasidic Judaics by the Chiddushei Harim (cf.\u00a0<i>Reiach Hasade<\/i>\u00a01:17).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Contrast these grostesque\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht<\/i>\u00a0mockeries from the lowest septic tank in hell, with the heavenly story of the Holy Family in Bethlehem \u2014 \u00a0the radiant Virgin and child, humble shepherds, and angels offering glad tidings of peace on earth to men of good will. Frankly, there is no comparison between Talmudic Judaism and true Christianity, and those who attempt to assert that Christianity has ecumenical similarities with the religion of the Talmud, are more deluded than the degraded practitioners of\u00a0<i>Nittel Nacht<\/i>\u00a0themselves.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Again, quoting Edmund Connelly, Mr. Fromm noted: &#8220;One could spend a year, from one Christmas to the next, reading about the Gentile-Jewish basis of the War on Christmas. Some accounts are scholarly, while others are more popular. Some overtly point to the religious split as the source of the hostility, while others cautiously skirt around the issue. \u00a0Rush Limbaugh\u2019s younger brother David is at pains not to name the\u00a0<em>source<\/em>\u00a0of the powerful anti-Christian bias he sees in our culture. Thus, in his 2003 work\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regnery.com\/regnery\/031001_pers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity<\/b><\/a><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0he can open a chapter by writing \u201cIn the documented bias against Christians and Christianity in our modern culture, Hollywood and Big Media play very major roles.\u201d But he ignores the highly Jewish nature of the American media in general and Hollywood in particular. In fact, the words \u201cJews\u201d and \u201cJudaism\u201d do not even appear in his extensive index.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The same can be said for Bill O\u2019Reilly \u2014 another culture warrior on the good side of the War on Christmas who never mentions the Jewish angle. But I love his poster anyway, even though he doesn\u2019t want to say whom he is really fighting against. This silence is, of course, a wonderful comment on Jewish power in America.\u00a0Still, by including a chapter such as William Lind\u2019s excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55833\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWho Stole Our Culture,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0it is obvious to even the halfway informed reader what civilizational rival they are discussing.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s370x247\/10383963_402262869939959_3984392436843137285_n.jpg?oh=797c9ed0a083f695076733710e021e15&amp;oe=553AC2C7&amp;__gda__=1429636385_67bd2f8be72350e74df03c7c88a5d9db\" alt=\"Frederick Fromm's photo.\" width=\"329\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Lind goes as far as anyone in this book to frame the conflict:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, where the Frankfurt School was located. Since the Frankfurt School was Marxist, and the Nazis hated Marxism, and since almost all its members were Jewish, it decided to leave Germany. In 1934, the Frankfurt School, including its leading members from Germany, was re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Needless to say, this emphasis on the Frankfurt school moves the discussion in the same direction as Kevin MacDonald does in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Culture-Critique-Evolutionary-Twentieth-Century-Intellectual\/dp\/0759672229\/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The Culture of Critique<\/b><\/a><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0where MacDonald describes the broad range of Jewish movements arrayed against the culture of the West, including Christianity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The first wave of the assault on Christmas, occurred from the late 1930s to the 1960s, Mr. Fromm explained. In 1934, at the urging of his wife Israel Itkovitz (better known as Eddie Cantor) wrote\u00a0<i>Santa Claus is Coming to Town<\/i>. Jule Steyn, a Jewess from Bethnall Green in London, England, wrote the song\u00a0<i>Let It Snow<\/i>, and Ivring Berlin, in the late 1940s, wrote the iconic\u00a0<i>White Christmas<\/i>. &#8220;Now, there is nothing in and of themselves wrong about these songs. They celebrate the externals of the Christmas time, but neatly avoid the core meaning &#8212; the birth of Jesus Christ. By the 1960s, many Christian groups were rightly complaining that Christ had been taken out of Christmas: Jesus, Mary and Joseph had been replaced by Santa, Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">But the attack was heating up, Mr. Fromm explained. Then, quoting Edmund Connelly, he added: &#8220;In everyday parlance, this debate is often referred to as the one over &#8216;A Neutral Public Square,&#8217;and it has been going on for a long time.&#8217;Happy Holidays&#8217; and &#8216;Season\u2019s Greetings&#8217; \u00a0were not always ubiquitous greetings at the end of December. For instance, back in 1952, George S. Kaufman appeared on a popular television show one week before Christmas and was asked what he wanted for the holiday. He replied, \u201cLet\u2019s make this one program on which no one sings \u2018Silent Night.&#8217; \u00a0The response from the audience (largely Gentile, one would presume) was fast and furious: Kaufman was removed from the show.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Fast-forward to 1982 and the popular\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0could feature a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/82\/82igumby.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">skit<\/a>\u00a0called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/82\/82igumby.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Merry Christmas, Dammit!<\/a>\u201d This skit portrayed the relationship between Donny and Marie Osmond, two non-Jewish sibling pop singers, as incestuous, and the Virgin Mary was described as \u201cthat virgin chick\u201d in a jazzed up version of \u201cSilent Night.\u201d Eddie Murphy \u2014 in his popular \u201cGumby\u201d guise \u2014 reads children\u2019s story in which Santa tears out the lungs of one of his elves because the elf asked for a sip of Santa\u2019s hot chocolate. He ends the skit by saying \u201cAnd to everyone out there \u2014 a merry Christmas! And to my producer, my director, my manager, and my lawyer \u2014 Happy Hanukkah, boys!&#8217; Obviously sensibilities had changed by then, and the people calling the shots were Jews.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Now, we have a concerted effort to remove &#8220;Christmas&#8221; while all the while wanting us to spend carloads of shekels to give gifts for the feast that dares not say its name. &#8220;Luckily, there&#8217;s been a strong push back from Christians and others. I urge you to give cards that say, &#8216;Merry Christmas.'&#8221; Mr. Fromm said. \u00a0&#8220;I urge you to return with a stern note any &#8216;Seasons Greetings&#8217; cards from politicians. Finally, when shopping, patronize stores that mention &#8216;Christmas&#8217; and, where you can, tell the management of stores that insist on &#8216;Seasons Greetings&#8217; that you won&#8217;t buy their cheap imported Chinese junk, if they won&#8217;t acknowledge the name of the date the vast majority of us celebrates. You are not being &#8216;inclusive&#8217;,&#8221; he added, &#8221; excluding yourself and your beliefs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The evening concluded with a provocative slide show by IHR Director, Tom Berrington. &#8220;We are in the period of Kali Yuga, in Hindu mythology, an evil time of turmoil and fever,&#8221; he warned: &#8220;We are never going back \u00a0to that golden era of the 1950s of rising living standards and endless opportunity. While there are many forces ranged against our people, we have certain advantages, especially our Faustian creative spirit,&#8221; he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/p160x160\/10891711_402263189939927_5284743016877440889_n.jpg?oh=413bd426e36b835435152b3676063651&amp;oe=5545FF8E&amp;__gda__=1429942120_91b5321c1a089bc3b71000bdf56204d1\" alt=\"Frederick Fromm's photo.\" width=\"213\" height=\"160\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHR Christmas Gathering A Huge Success The Institute for Historical Review&#8217;s fifth annual Christmas party was held in the organization&#8217;s offices in Orange County, California. 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