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...took time for the quiet yeshiva boy to become first the militant follower of the extremist, hate-mongering Rabbi Meir Kahane; then the Israeli doctor who so detested Arabs he called them Nazis; and finally the killer who fired round after round into a terrified crowd of people at prayer. As he lived among the most vitriolic fringe elements of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank -- many of whom began their lives, like him, as Americans -- Goldstein's religion became indistinguishable from his rage. This was not a sweet and generous doctor who suddenly snapped...
...Goldstein's funeral the rabbi expressed his feeling by saying, "one million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." And Goldstein was buried as a hero. So what was Goldstein? Was he a hero, a murderer, a militant or a terrorist? It seems there is no consensus, especially not among the Israeli settlers and Jewish religious leaders. And in the West, a media that is always ready to label Muslims as terrorist is hesitating...
...horrible massacre in Hebron last week was the act of a fanatical Israeli settler. A follower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, he firmly believed that the current peace negotiations were a capitulation by Israel...
Minister Farrakhan may be rightly upset that antislavery activism was not predominant among the 150,000 Jews then in America, or that there is no record of any Southern rabbi who publicly criticized slavery -- but there were militant Jewish abolitionists (including Northern rabbis) such as Isidor Busch, Michael Helprin, Rabbi David Einhorn and August Bondi (who fought with John Brown). The expulsion of Jews from Tennessee by Ulysses S. Grant's Order No. 11 in 1862 and new waves of poor East European Jews would yield a more antiracist activism among American Jewry. But even though Minister Farrakhan's anti...
Amid the uproar, I participated in a public-radio panel discussion of these issues. One of the panelists, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, argued that the media spend too much time on black-Jewish relations, that TIME should have talked more about the offenses in Muhammad's speech to Roman Catholics, women, gays and others. I agreed with him about the second half of that statement. But it seems to me that there could be no more significant conflict than the one between Jewish and black people since the questions it raises...