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Unlike Portnoy's Complaint, David's Jewishness is a minor motif. Although he treats David's childhood, growing up in his father's Jewish resort hotel, humorously, Roth is not interested in painting the expose of American Jewish life that he did in Portnoy's Complaint. Judaism is mainly a symbol. The Jew as an exile and survivor is used in conjunction with Roth's depiction of the ceaseless quest for love which, when found, fades only for the search to be renewed. As one of David's students writes in an essay: "The search for intimacy, not because...
...rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. The Creation itself was achieved in the autumn, according to a tradition of Judaism-whence the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at summer's end or the start of fall. The suspicion that even God is partial to autumn has overwhelmed others, including John Donne, who enthused: "In Heaven, it is always Autumn...
...unauthorized Israeli settlements on the West Bank and to announce the creation of three brand new settlements have upset many U.S. Jews. Quite a few Reform and Conservative rabbis remain concerned, moreover, that Begin may impose an Orthodox religious tyranny in Israel at the expense of other branches of Judaism, not to mention other religions. In addition, says Leonard Beerman, "I'm frightened that the values of Judaism that have to do with civil rights and the rights of national minorities of small peoples to self-determination would be compromised if the West Bank were incorporated into Israel. That...
...have developed its more ominous oddities after he joined the Army in 1971. He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. Early in his Army service, for unknown reasons, he left Judaism to become a fundamentalist Baptist after attending hand-clapping revival meetings...
...enigma and paradox of the so-called Messianic Jews are that they have apparently rejected their own (and Jesus') Judaism, of which many seem to be quite ignorant, in favor of someone else's (Paul's) Christianity...