The May 5th Club Meeting featured Republican candidates and speakers that are transforming the USA and bringing on the Great Red Wave for the 2022 elections! Here are the videos of their stunning presentations.
Videos of May 5th Club Meeting: Stop Supreme Court Packing, Oust AOC
Repelling the Assault on Our American Dreams
by Paul King, Candidate for Congress
America is a land of heroes. Not superheroes with capes, but everyday heroes who build better lives for their families through education, faith, community, and hard work. They are the living testament to the American Dream. That Dream will become extinct if progressives/socialists continue to have their way.
Throughout my life, I’ve been schooled in the American Dream – one of the great American traditions. My maternal grandfather arrived from Italy as a 10-year-old, was placed in an orphanage, and yet eventually started his own business and bought his own home. My father grew up on Relief during the Depression. After decades of hard work, he moved his family to Rockaway where he bought his own home, sent his three children to college, and became a civic leader. Most of my friends’ parents were working-class or blue-collar people working hard to pursue their American Dream. They were our heroes.
Stop the assault of the progressive left of the Democrat Party on our rights
Any elected official or candidate who doesn’t uphold the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, and our Judicial System should be voted out of office.
Review of The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
By Stephen H. Weiner
Good evening fellow ARRT (American Revolution Round-Table of New York) Members and Guests. It is a pleasure to give a review of The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, by Andrew Porwancher.
Andrew Porwancher teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
This book includes 192 pages of text, and 48 pages of Notes. The subject of the book is the author’s remarkable claim that Alexander Hamilton was born and raised as a Jew, and how he, in contrast to other founders of the Republic, had good relations with Jews and was unsullied by antisemitic bias.
It’s an exaggeration to call the Jewish presence in the Western Hemisphere that the author describes as a “Jewish World.” Religious discrimination, and anti-Jewish sentiments and stereotypes were a part of life in the thirteen colonies. When the Revolution began, there were around 2,000 Jews, of whom 250 lived in the city of New York, where there was one synagogue.1 However, these Jews did something vital to the Jewish future in the United States. According to the author, a majority of them supported the Revolution.
With respect to the theory of Hamilton’s Jewish origin, here is how the argument goes: Hamilton’s mother was Rachel Faucette, a Christian Englishwoman who grew up on the Island of Nevis in the Caribbean. Rachel moved to the Island of St.
Croix. While on St. Croix, she marries a merchant named Johan Levine, who probably was Jewish. Rachel, according to the author, must have converted to Judaism because they did not have their child Peter baptized.2 Subsequently, their marriage ended badly due to her committing adultery.
Rachel then had two children out of wedlock with James Hamilton, Sr., a Scottish aristocrat. The children were James Hamilton, Jr., and Alexander Hamilton.
According to the author, because Rachel converted when she married Johan, and in Judaism the religion is passed by the mother to her children, that made Alexander Hamilton Jewish.
Subsequently, Rachel moved back to Nevis. While on Nevis, Rachel had a Jewish teacher tutor Alexander. Later in life, Alexander recalled learning the Ten Commandments in Hebrew.
When he was eleven years old, however, Rachel relocated back to St. Croix. Tragically, she died when Alexander was just thirteen. After a difficult few months, he was taken in by an affluent Christian Englishman, Thomas Stevens.
The first problem with the Jewish Origin theory is the absence of a Jewish community on St. Croix to convert Rachel. A woman’s Jewish conversion did not occur automatically by marriage, Under Jewish law, a conversion must be recognized by a panel of several Jewish men. There was no Jewish synagogue or school. The author found records that there were six Jewish men on St. Croix. This is less than the ten man quorum required for traditional Jewish prayer. The claim with no evidence that three of these six men living without a synagogue would sit as a religious panel and determine that Rachel converted is incredible. Anyway, what would be the meaning of a conversion on an island without a Jewish community?3
In contrast to St. Croix, the Nevis Jewish community included seventy persons in a section of Charlestown. Here, the author goes too far in saying that there is proof that Alexander was accepted by a Jewish school. Rather, the evidence is that a Jewish woman tutored young Alexander on at least one occasion. However that is not evidence that Alexander was Jewish. She might not have asked too many questions, or she could have acted out of compassion for a mother and a child.
Further, the fact that a Christian Englishman (who was unrelated to him), Thomas Stevens, became the teenager Hamilton’s guardian after his mother’s death, is evidence of the Hamilton’s lack of a connection to Judaism. The last thing a Jewish community would do is to abandon an orphan.
It is interesting that at this point (p.38) the author finally admits the absence of a St. Croix Jewish community. He states as follows:
Any identity as a Jew that Hamilton may have had almost certainly died with his mother. A plucky youth like him would have been disinclined to compound his troubles as an orphan with a second-class religious status. Had Hamilton still resided in Nevis at this point – with its Jewish community and the Jewish School that educated him–perhaps Rachel’s passing would have been less likely to occasion her son’s disaffection from the Jewish faith. But St. Croix was home to far fewer Jews than Nevis. If Hamilton ever laid claim to a Jewish identity, he was now bereft of a family or community that might have kept it alive.
To the author’s credit, he discusses an important piece of contrary evidence. When Hamilton is seventeen years old, he was called by his employer to testify in a financial dispute. To determine if he can testify, the Court questioned Hamilton about his religion, because only Christians could testify under oath. Hamilton said he was brought up in the Anglican Church. Professor Porwancher suggests that Hamilton lied to the Court about his religion.4
Young Hamilton had become friendly with a Reverend Knox, who helped him to get off the island and to get to New Jersey and start his education in an Academy there. Soon thereafter Hamilton attended King’s College, which is now Columbia University, just before the Revolution began.
Finally, in contrast to his treatment of Alexander Hamilton, while it is a subject for another day, I think the author gives too little credit to President George Washington’s enormous and history-making contribution to Jewish civil equality, and he is too critical of founders Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Thank you for the opportunity to present this review.
Stephen H. Weiner
April 5, 2022
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- (P.56) .In contrast, he says, there were 25,000 Catholics in the colonies.
- Johan was probably in control of the decision to not baptize his son as an infant. Subsequently, Peter had an adult baptism.
- I want to thank my Rabbi Ron Wittenstein, whom I consulted about the conversion process.
- It is odd that this author who praises Hamilton’s for affinity to Jews, here accuses him of lying in Court, and repeatedly attacks Hamilton’s sincerity later in life in publicly professing Christianity.
Anti-Asian Hate Politics
On March 16, 2022, New York City Councilwomen Sandra Ung, Linda Lee, and Julie Won, along with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, held a candlelight vigil in memory of six Asian women who were killed in a shooting spree that targeted spas in the Atlanta area. While the Atlanta shooting was portrayed in the MSM as an anti-Asian hate crime, the shooter, Robert Aaron Long, claimed that he was not targeting Asian women specifically, but rather sex workers. For him, their ethnicity was not a factor.
Videos: April 7th GOP Candidates Night
The sanctuary room of the Bellerose Jewish Center was packed on this rainy night for the April 7th meeting of the Queens Village Republican Club. Many people came to hear guest speaker Congressman Lee Zeldin, who’s flight from DC was cancelled due to the thunderstorms. But this allowed our other candidates, guest speakers and musicians more time to energize the crowd, which was the intent of the club meeting dubbed “Bring on the Great Red Wave.” Absolutely no one was disappointed. Here are the videos of the Republican candidates, speakers, and a moving musical performance.
“Until Old Glory Calls” by Lawrence Block
Rowen Giles on “Democrat Abuse of NYC Property Owners”
Paul King: Republican candidate for Congress – District 5
Tom Zmich: Republican candidate for Congress, 6th District
Danniel Maio: Republican candidate for NYS Senate, 15th District
It’s Time to Get Out-of-Touch Career Politicians OUT!
by Stefano Forte
I grew up in New York’s golden age during the prosperous Giuliani era when crime was low, quality of life was high, and we all felt secure walking the streets of our great city at any hour of the day. Our businesses were thriving. Education was a priority. The city I enjoyed and loved was safe and prosperous. Being raised in an immigrant family of small business owners who worked their way up the socioeconomic ladder with their sweat, blood, and tears, I truly believed that the promise of the American Dream was well within our grasp.
Now, in a very short time, everything has changed. Disastrous policies have led us to disastrous places: our small businesses are shutting their doors for good, the quality of our education has plummeted, and, most concerningly, non-violent and violent crime alike have shot to record highs. What caused this? Many of us already know the answer, and it’s obvious: electing the same kind of radical (or simply complacent) career politicians over and over again has emboldened them to create policies that are decimating the city we all love. The Bail Elimination Act, passed through the budget in 2019, has allowed all manner of “non-violent” criminals to be freed ahead of their court date without posting bail. This could’ve been a just concept, and it was in theory – rich people and poor people should not have different advantages under the criminal justice system simply because of economic status. But as we all know, this theory became an almost immediate disaster when put into practice. By stripping judges of their discretionary abilities, there is now no way to keep potential re-offenders in custody ahead of their court date. The result has been the categorical catch-and-release of criminals that has led to such tragedies as the recent violent assault of a toddler in Flushing, or the shoving death of Michelle Go in Times Square. Both of those offenders, like many others, had committed prior offenses and should not have been walking the streets of our city.
147th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner in pictures and videos
On March 20, 2022, after a two-year hiatus, the Queens Village Republican Club hosted our 147th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner, a magnificent celebration of Freedom and the Party of Lincoln, Reagan and Trump, together with 300 patriotic friends.
Our club’s dinner committee put a great deal of sweat and toil into it, and the fruit of our labor was that the attendees left in high spirits, energized, and motivated to go out, organize, build our party, and elect Republicans! We’ve been getting rave reviews from the attendees. Here are the pictures and videos that tell the story.
Full Video of James O’Keefe Lincoln Dinner Presentation
On March 20, 2022, keynote speaker James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, wowed the crowd at the 147th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. He gave an enlightening audio-visual presentation on his entirely new type of undercover journalism. His message is to be brave and do something! Years ago, he played Cowboy Curly in the Broadway Show “Oklahoma” and he treated us to an acapella rendition of “Oh What a Beautiful Morning.” VIP Room guests enjoyed an exclusive meet and greet with James O’Keefe, including a free signed copy of his blockbuster bestseller, “American Muckraker.” Here is the video of the entire presentation.
Videos: GOP Candidates Night Club Meeting
On March 3rd 2022, the Queens Village Republican Club held its first of several GOP Candidates Nights to
“Bring on the Great Red Wave!” Many solid Republican candidates have stepped up to run in local Queens and statewide races, some involved in primaries. They are riding on the cusp of a mighty red wave which started in 2021 with the great victory of City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, and Republican victories that swept Nassau and Suffolk. Here are the videotaped speeches of the March 3rd meeting featuring some of our amazing 2022 Republican candidates running in Queens and statewide races and a stimulating Q & A.
