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"Further reading" list -- insert in to the Israel lobby in the United States page

• Zev Chafets. A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance. HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN 0060890584.
• Murray Friedman. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521545013.
• John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" [1]. London Review of Books, Volume 28 Number 6, March 22, 2006.
• James Petras. The Power of Israel in the United States. Clarity Press, 2006. ISBN 0932863515.
• Stephen Schwartz. Is It Good for the Jews?: The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby. Doubleday, 2006. ISBN 038551025X.
• Janice Terry. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups. Pluto Press, 2005. ISBN 0745322581.
• Timothy P. Weber. On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend. Baker Academic, 2005. ISBN 0801031427.
• Douglas Little. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0807855391.
• Nasser Aruri. Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel. South End Press, 2003. ISBN 0896086879.
• Paul Findley. They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby. Lawrence Hill, 2003. ISBN 155652482X.
• Paul Findley. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S.-Israeli Relationship. Lawrence Hill, 1995. ISBN 1556522398.
• Cheryl Rubenberg. Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination. University of Illinois Press, 1989. ISBN 0252060741.
• Benjamin Ginsberg. The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State. University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 0226296660.
• Edward Tivnan. The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy. Touchstone Books, 1988. ISBN 0671668285.
• Jonah Goldberg. Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment. Basic Books, 1997. ISBN 0201327988.
• D. H. Goldberg. Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel. Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN 0313268509.
• Stephen J. Green. Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations With Militant Israel. William Morrow & Co., 1984. ISBN 0688026435.

Sources for Jewish Sportspeople

Many are already sourced at the "source" - at the wiki article on the person, to which they are linked. No need for double work on these (if this were a Wiki policy).--Epeefleche 23:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

"User Jayjg's policy"

Hi Wasserman. Please desist from using the phrase "user Jayjg's policy" or similar locutions in future edit summaries; it is a violation of an important Wikipedia policy, WP:CIVIL. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It was you that blanked the List of Jewish American businesspeople in a flash even though 90% of all the other Lists of Jews don't have sources, right? That IS your 'new policy,' right? --WassermannNYC 08:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Like I wrote on the TP of the List of Jewish American businesspeople list, to which you never responded: "...if dozens if not hundreds of these lists still remain entirely unreferenced, why are you targeting this particular one Jayjg?" --WassermannNYC 08:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewdar (2nd nomination)

You have recently recreated or reposted material at Jewdar which previously was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate this article without prior approval from an administrator or you may be blocked from editing. We ask that you respect what Wikipedia is not. If you disagree with the article's deletion, you may seek an independent deletion review. -- Merope 19:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I deleted it because that's what the rules dictate: the consensus was to delete the article, and in order to get it reposted, you have to go through the proper channels. Listing a DRV is pretty easy - the steps are right here. -- Merope 20:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I seriously don't understand how to do all of that stuff when it comes to all of that code and procedure. I'm kind of old and computer illiterate when it comes to all of that. Nevermind I guess; it'll just have to re-created again at a later date. I might try to figure it all out later. --WassermannNYC 20:21, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

WassermannNYC, you are misusing your talk page, that's why Merope removed the article. Your talk page is for communication with you, not hosting deleted content. If you need to create a draft, it should be a subpage of your user space. Leebo⁸⁶ 11:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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Pure POV -- 'they' say that the Jewdar article isn't well sourced or notable enough to merit inclusion?!

Jewdar, a recently-coined jocular slang word that is portmanteau derived from "Jew" and "radar", is the supposed ability to intuitively discern whether or not a person is a Jew via subtle (often non-verbal) cues such as appearance, general mannerisms, body language, clothing, voice, or other non-specific information.

Urban Dictionary has several entries on Jewdar and correspondents involved with the American Dialect Society noted that comedian Judy Gold used the word on Comedy Central. A writer for the Russian magazine The eXile facetiously claimed to have created "Jewdar2000" software. Although it seems to be mostly used by Jewish people themselves, one can find examples of it being used by people who are anti-Semitic.

Based upon radar, gaydar and Jewdar, the "-dar" suffix may take on the status of a morpheme meaning "detection ability" which can be used to improvise other terms.

Usage

• "David Bergman tells us that there is 'Jewdar,' just like gaydar. Absolutely truthful: When I lived in almost Jew-free Germany in the late '70s, ..."

• In extreme examples, some allege to be able to discern a Jewish person with a quick glance. A writer for the Washington Post recollects:

You may have heard the term "gaydar," the ability claimed by some gay people to detect other gays. My mother has a similar skill -- call it "Jewdar" -- the knack for identifying fellow members of the tribe. ... When I was growing up in northern New Jersey, my mother would demonstrate this talent when we went to restaurants, methodically shifting her gaze from table to table. "Jew, Jew, Christian, intermarried," she would pronounce, with the certitude of the preternaturally gifted.

• Another author also uses "Jewdar' in the same passage as the older portmanteau word "gaydar":

In the 10 years since I came out as gay, I've had two principal relationships -- one a relatively short disaster, and one a lasting dream -- with gentile men, both of whom I mistook at first for Jews. This suggests that I ought to disengage my faulty Jewdar. Except that I can't. Uncertain as it is -- just like my gaydar -- it's a survival skill I'm afraid to be without.

• New York Press has also coupled the terms:

...McCain got a free pass for his acute gaydar; not that Bush would’ve. But I wonder if Carlson would also applaud the Senator’s Jewdar?

• In a 2006 article in Artforum International Magazine, writer Rhonda Lieberman uses the word without pairing it with "gaydar". She also slips in a Yiddish word that many, but certainly not most, English language speakers would know:

Schorr had hitherto evaded my Jewdar, but my shiksa friend was right.

• Joseph Epstein, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, talked about Jewdar in a serious tone in 2003 (and, incidentally, inaccurately implies that it is a nonce word that he is improvising on the spot):

And yet Jews remain, at least to most other Jews, identifiably, unmistakably Jewish. "Gaydar" is a word, formed from "radar," that describes the ability to discern a gay man, especially one attempting to pass as heterosexual. If there is an equivalent power of discernment that allows one to spot Jews, even where they do not conform in any obvious or even subtle way to stereotypical notions of the Jew--let us call this "Jewdar"--I like to think I possess it in reasonably good working order.

{{wiktionary:Jewdar}}

See also

• Cultural Judaism
• Secular Jewish culture
• Yiddishkeit

External links

• "Jewdar" Column -- from the Jewish Heeb Magazine
  • "Jewdar" Column -- from the Jewish Heeb Magazine
• "Funny, But I Do Look Jewish?" -- from The Weekly Standard
• "New -dar word?" -- from the American Dialect Society LISTSERV
  • "New -dar word?" -- from the American Dialect Society LISTSERV
• Article: "Oh, Kramer" mentions 'Jewdar' throughout -- from the editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times

References

Category:Jewish society -- Category:Portmanteaus -- Category:Vocabulary -- Category:Word coinage -- Category:Neologisms

Hi

Hi. I'm afraid you're misusing your talk page by holding the "Jewdar" deleted article there. What you could do is host it in your user space, however, I warn you that eventually, someone will come along and list that page for deletion too. In the meantime though, that's your best bet. You could click here and cut and paste the material to the new page. Ignoring the requests of others not to misuse your talk page is a swift route to trouble and I'm sure you don't really want to start ignoring Wikipedia's rules and conventions. Yours helpfully, --Dweller 12:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)