Category: Israel

Linda Grindel

I’ve written about progressive psychic mediums before. My wife is particularly fond of them, and I find them to be consistently entertaining and insightful. I’ll include a few links to the ones I find that are accurate. However, like most progressives, they tend to embrace an antisemitic worldview, especially in regard to Israel.

The worst one, as far as being blatantly antisemitic, is Linda Grindel.   In practically every podcast she produces (except when she’s a guest with others), she disparages Israel in some way.

In her latest podcast, she found the straw that broke the camel’s back. She stated on the air that her “spirit guides” informed her that Israel participated in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Linda’s pod cast 2/26/2026

I believe in a lot of things. I believe that we have spiritual advisors that dwell between the worlds that give us insights or advice about things going on in our lives. Other than “spirit guides,” I’m not sure what else you can call them. Some people call them Angels. Celtic-oriented people might refer to them as “faery.” I believe that some people are gifted with the ability to access these entities at will. Psychics, Mediums, Gurus, Shamans, and maybe even some Rabbis are gifted in this way.

I can state here that Linda Grindel’s “guides” did not tell her that Israel, the Mosshav, the IDF, or any other Israelis had anything to do with the assassination of JFK.

Guides do not lie. They are incapable of it. People lie. Politicians lie. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler, Tucker Carlson, and many others are pathological liars. (Do you know how to tell when one of them is lying? Their lips move.) 

Progressive Psychic Mediums, such as Linda, claim that they get their information from these spirit guides (or they may call them Angels, ETs, famous people from history, etc,)

But in this case Linda Grindel is either lying, or she is listening to entities that are not benevolent or who do not hold human beings (or Homo sapiens) in high regard or have any respect for them. A third possibility is that Linda is just bat-crap “cray cray.”

Israel has always held the United States and certain of our POTUSs in very high regard. JFK was admired so much that in the hills outside of Bethany there is a perpetual memorial flame that burns in honor of JFK.

 

President Kennedy was very supportive of Israel. Here is a link to some of his remarks at the August 26, 1960 convention of the Zionist Organization of America in New York City.

 

I’m more Jewish now than I ever have been

The transition began with October 7th 2023. That was the day that the terrorist group Hamas savagely attacked communities in Southern Israel and a music festival from their base in Gaza, murdering, raping, disemboweling, innocent Israeli men, women, children, infants and the elderly.  News reports say that over 1400 were gunned down, gang raped and dismembered by savage inhuman adherents to the “religion of Peace.”

I won’t got into any more details. You can read about those elsewhere, but the effect it had on me, over time, caused me to embrace the Jewish side of my persona more so than at any other time in my life, even more so than my visit to Israel in 1974.

So, if you are wondering why my writings and missives on this blog are emphasising Judaism more than in the past, this is the reason.  This year I have visited a Rabbi, afixed a Mezuzah to both my front and back doors, actively lit the candles and recited the prayers for Channukah, began observing Shabbat on Friday evenings by wearing a Kippot  and been attending the Zoom broadcast of Shabbat services from Central Synagogue in New York City.  I also attended the public lighting of the Menorah on the eighth night of Channukah in Olde Towne Eureka.

I haven’t found a spiritual home here as yet. There are two Synagogues here: Temple Beth El in Eureka, and the Chabad Jewish Center in Arcata. Rabbi Cowen of the Chabad house in Arcata was the Rabbi I met with this past summer, and the one I have had the most interaction with (through the Facebook Humboldt Jewish Community group). I would probably be more inclined to attend Temple Beth El (a Reform congregation more like the one I occasionally attended in Chicago) if it weren’t for the fact that Rabbi Naomi believes all the falsehoods spoken about Israel by both the Right and the Left (“Apartheid,” “Occupation,” “Genocide,” “Illegal Settlements,” etc.).  On the other hand Chabad is very, very orthodox and extreme in it’s practices, even though I am very impressed with Rabbi Cowen (his joy is infectious). I find the ultra orthodox Chabad a bit too extreme for my comfort level. Still, if I am going to become a member of a Jewish community, Chabad attracts me for it’s unabashed allegiance to the Jewish state of Israel, rather than the mealy mouthed, denial of Judaisms intrinsic attachment to Zionism, that some so called “Progressive” Jews embrace.  I cannot fathom the embrace of a form of anti-semitism (anti-Zionism) that some of these folks espouse.

I am a Progressive myself. I always have been. The doctrines of Islam are some of the most anti-Progressive I have ever witnessed (misogyny, anti-LGBTQ, pro-slavery, anti- Human rights, anti-democracy) and nearly every Islamic dominated nation on this planet exhibits the same inhumane traits.  Yet many so-called Progressives would rather support such regimes (which a “Palestinian” state would inevitably become) rather than support Israel, which is by far one of the most Progressive states on the planet, perhaps even more so than the United States.