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...operate in several states. And now groups of militiamen, white supremacists and neo-Nazis are using resentment over the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. as a potent rallying cry. "The immigration furor has been critical to the growth we've seen" in hate groups, says Mark Potok, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center counts some 800 racist groups operating in the U.S. today, a 5% spurt in the past year and a 33% jump from 2000. "They think they've found an issue with racial overtones and a real resonance...
Since his imprisonment, Hale's organization, which never counted more than a few hundred members, has foundered. In fact, the entire white-supremacy movement is at a crossroads. The Ku Klux Klan still has about 7,000 members, says Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations. But the leaders of several other major groups--like the National Alliance and Aryan Nations--have either died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site...
DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, best-selling author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, whose crystalline prose gave mainstream audiences a nuanced glimpse into the rarely seen world of religious Jews; of brain cancer; in Merion, Pa. Potok's novels repeatedly addressed the struggle between religious devotion and love for the secular world, a tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly...
...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...
...farmer in Washington State who commands the 419th Yakima County Militia, blames the slump on a lack of "Y2Ks or anything like that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still runs...