Question about Last Names - Button, Crittendon, Lebbert - Are They Jewish ?

[abduLMaria]

I am trying to figure some people that I have known in the past, or that are acquaintances now.

Button is the last name of a woman in a college food fraternity I belonged to.  For some reason her name is always showing up in the "Suggestions" area on my teeny Facebook page (which, I have noticed, tends to recommend Jewish people in my geographic area.)

Crittendon is the name of a retired sociology prof. who I knew first as a history teacher, then as a fellow history enthusiast.  Very well read on all subjects - but never said one single word about Israel or the Jews (except as victims).  I have concluded that he is too smart for that to be an accident.

Lebbert is the pastor at a Christian church but I have a hunch she is Jewish.

Anybody have any experience with these names & the Jewish-ness of people with these names ?

Long story short, I am learning to avoid Jewish people.  This will always be based on hunches but the better informed I am the better.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Well abdulMaria,

The old "Barmitzvah +Name" or didn't turn up much for Crittendon, Button, or Lebbert.  However, it is hard to track people who have changed Jewish names into English Gentile ones from the Northern parts Europe.  As far as I can tell, nothing conclusive is turning up. Will keep an eye open though.

[kolnidre]

I don't think it's necessary or desirable to "avoid Jews." Very rarely do we encounter absolutes in the world, and most self-identified Jews have merits and faults in some proportion.

I spent a day earlier this week with someone who knows some Lubavichers in China and has attended some of their functions himself. Does that make him evil? I don't think so. He's the same guy who observed that he'll go somewhere and enjoy it for what it is, while most Jews will gripe about there being no Jews around and look to surround themselves with other members of their tribe.

My point being that there is something worthwhile in most people, and while it's a silly exercise to go out of the way to make friends with people from a certain group (like some bleeding hearts might try to "befriend" poor folks in the barrio with whom they have nothing in common and can't actually help) it's just as silly to dismiss an entire segment of people. I don't actively court or repel Jews, but I won't abide by criminal behavior or blind support for Israel's crimes against humanity.

In the end it doesn't matter what people believe but how they act. Go ahead and believe you're chosen, but don't treat others like shit because of it. Belief in the Cookie Monster as the Messiah is wacky, but it's just a belief and doesn't manifest in anything insidious, whilst the idea that membership in some ersatz tribe equates to a license to lie, cheat, steal, divide, bastardize, corrupt, and sicken other people, and that's a problem. So Jewish belief is delusional and disagreeable, but it's Jewish conduct that's the real issue, which is why I've come to judge who's a Jew not by name or belief only but by actions. If Jewish behavior like usury, corruption of values, breaking of interpersonal bonds by a parasitic elite, etc. were outlawed and no longer tolerated those Jews who place themselves above others would be forced to join the human race or perish, not because they're Jews but because they are enemies of humanity.

[MonkeySeeMonkeyDo]

I spent a day earlier this week with someone who knows some Lubavichers in China and has attended some of their functions himself. Does that make him evil? I don't think so.

No, it just makes him an idiot. If you start to hang out with Jews a lot eventually they'll turn you into one. Or if you know some nice Jews they'll soften you up and make you take your eye off the ball, which is that Jews are a problem and have been one for thousands of years.  The corruption in Jews is incessant, and they corrupt everyone around them.

[§N9sh2bj]

it's what they do, not what they say. So based on what they do, their attitudes towards life and other people, their values, you can smell 'jew', then investigate the name if you want. To me it's not important what they say or call themselves, it's what they do.