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...York City, politicians were asking this question: Can a bright, young, energetic, ambitious Jew get elected to Congress from a heavily Jewish district if he has an Arab name...
Last week he complained that Farbstein, who likes to remind his constituency that he is the only Jew on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is an ardent supporter of Israel, was spreading rumors all over the district that Haddad is an Arab. Not only that; people were sending around anonymous notes about him ("Can you trust an ARAB to fight for the interests of Jews and for Israel?"). Even worse, said Haddad, Farbstein was going about telling folks that Haddad was born an Egyptian, that he got married in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thus was a meshumad...
...Ethnics. Haddad, naturally, was outraged over the whispering campaign. He tried to catch up with the rumors by pointing out that his mother is a Russian-born Jew who keeps a kosher home, and that his father had the misfortune of having been born in Cairo to Egyptian Jews. He protested to the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, issued statements, got Jimmy Roosevelt to make a public statement on his behalf, and met with Yiddish-language newspaper editors in an attempt to convince them that he is just as Jewish as Farbstein...
Later that day, Dr. Louis J. West, a University of Oklahoma psychiatrist, interviewed Ruby for an hour, found him full of obsessions. Ruby had crashed into the wall, said West, in an effort to "end it all." His reason: "Last night the patient became convinced that all the Jews in America were being slaughtered. This was in retaliation against him, the Jew responsible for 'all the trouble.' " The psychiatrist said that Ruby also believed he had recently watched while his own brother was tortured and incinerated in the street outside the jail and that the screams still echoed...
...edifice complex" is another manifestation of the Jew's changing identity, Weisberg said. He referred to the partially imposed ghetto created by such institutions as the Jewish center, club, pool, golf course, and hospital...