- Kevin MacDonald / Amazon... This book attempts to understand an ancient people in terms of modern evolutionary biology. A basic idea is that Judaism is a group evolutionary strategy-what one might term an evolutionarily significant way for a group of people to get on in the world. The book documents several theoretically interesting aspects of group evolutionary strategies using Judaism as a case study. These topics include the theory of group evolutionary strategies, the genetic cohesion of Judaism, how Jews managed to erect and enforce barriers to gene flow between themselves and other peoples, resource competition between Jews and non-Jews, how Jews managed to have a high level of charity within their communities and at the same time prevented free-riding, how some groups of Jews came to have such high IQ's, and how Judaism developed in antiquity.
- Kevin MacDonald YouTube... ethnocentrism, IQ.. genetic adaption from natural selection..
- Kevin MacDonald ./ Amazon .Separation and Its Discontents..This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism asa Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter PTSDA). While PTSDA focused on developing a theory of Judaism within anevolutionary framework, the present volume focuses on the phenomenon ofanti-Semitism. Judaism and anti-Semitism fairly cry out for an evolutionaryinterpretation. Anti-Semitism has been a very robust tendency over a very longperiod of human history and in a wide range of societies with different formsof government, different economic systems, and different dominant religiousideologies. Many anti-Semitic episodes, such as the Iberian inquisitions andthe Nazi holocaust, have been characterized by extraordinary intra-societal violence.Moreover, anti-Semitism has sometimes been characterized by a very overt,self-conscious racialism...a phenomenon that immediately suggests the relevanceof evolutionary theory...
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- Lakewood's population is 60% Orthodox Jewish ... a significant factor in analyzing this situation. .. it highlights the Jewish state within a state .. anti assimilation strategy...or Kevin MacDonald's Group evolutionary strategy..
- NJ ... Lakewood's school system is in crisis, with a deficit that threatens to cause layoffs in the public schools while most of the school-age children in town attend private religious schools
- NJ ... Tax exempt organizations With so much of Lakewood centered on the Orthodox Jewish community, the town has more than 100 yeshivas and more than 80 synagogues. Because they're considered religious, they're exempt from paying property taxes. Lakewood has about 350 properties that fit into this category for this community ...
- NJ ... Lakewood public schools have 6,000 students but the town also has another 30,000 students who go to private yeshivas. That transportation costs the school district $24.5 million.
- NJ ... relentless pressure from some sales agents seeking properties on behalf of Orthodox Jewish clients (to build dormitories for Jewish students), Toms River passed an ordinance prohibiting those types of solicitations in neighborhoods closest to its border with Lakewood.
- NJ... (money laundering) ... Yisroel Malamud. In February, Malamud pleaded guilty in federal court to running an unlicensed money transmitting business through his store. Admitting he accepted a fee for transferring customers' money to a third party,
- NJ ... previous cases should have given warning... Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, said this was among a series of arrests made in 2015 that stimulated Prosecutor Joseph Coronato to make a presentation to Lakewood's Orthodox Jewish community about welfare fraud.
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- NJ ...11 things to know about Lakewood, suddenly the newsiest town in N.J. ... Once a stomping ground for the rich and famous, Lakewood is now in the news for the tensions growing around its burgeoning ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The tensions have spread to neighboring towns, where residents have said they have been bombarded relentlessly with solicitations to purchase their homes. The town's school system is in crisis, with a deficit that threatens to cause layoffs in the public schools while most of the school-age children in town attend private religious schools. Now the town is in the headlines again as seven couples(actually 26 Jews), including a rabbi and his wife, were arrested this week and charged with stealing more than $2 million in federal and state aid by hiding their actual financial assets. More arrests are expected.
 - Arrests include: Yetzchok Zev Kanarek, William David Friedman, Sora Kanarek, Liatt Ehrman, Faigy Friedman, Chaim Shlomo Ehrman
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- NJ ... Lakewood rabbis respond to fraud arrests: 'This is not a grand conspiracy' ... The arrests of 14 (actually 26) Lakewood residents since Monday morning in a massive welfare fraud investigation that is expected to expand with more arrests has left the township's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community reeling. Those arrested in the first raids early Monday include Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin, 39, who runs the Congregation Lutzk synagogue, and his wife. The others facing state and federal charges are also well-known members of the community, local leaders said. But a prominent member of the Lakewood Vaad, a voluntary council of influential Orthodox leaders, said the community should not be judged on the actions of several (actually 26)individuals in a town that now numbers 100,000 residents. "This is not a grand conspiracy, but we have a couple (actually 26) bad apples every now and then," Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg said Thursday in an interview with NJ Advance Media. He declined to speak specifically about those facing charges.
- JTA ... 12 more charged with welfare fraud as crackdown on Orthodox New Jersey community widens ... Twelve people were charged with illegally obtaining government benefits as part of a crackdown on a haredi Orthodox community in New Jersey. The probe in Lakewood has resulted in the arrest of or charges against 26 people to date since the initial arrests last week. On Thursday, authorities charged 12 people with third-degree theft by deception for having unlawfully obtained nearly $400,000 worth of public benefits, including Medicaid, food and home energy assistance, and ...
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