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...must TIME call "polydox" adherents Jews [March 20]? Although Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism, would anyone in 1978 venture to call a Roman Catholic priest a liberal rabbi? Of course not. There are so many new religions that one cannot keep up with them any more, but don't confuse a new religion with a sect of an existing belief...
...Jews for Jesus" would love to be considered Jews, but the name of this group implies the renouncement of Judaism, and thus they cannot be called Jews. The same rule holds true for the "polydox." They do not believe in God and thus are no longer a sect of Judaism but rather a new religion...
...from the U.S. and from Sadat, the Israelis were in no mood to turn the other cheek. Leaders of all Israeli political parties agreed to a Knesset statement declaring that terrorist organizations must be attacked and "exterminated." The occasion called forth a volley of extremist oratory; a small nationalist sect headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane, for instance, openly demanded the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel, including the 574,000 who are Israeli citizens...
...inside or outside of the sect can remember why or how Gibbs became their greater godhead, except to recall that the only existing statue of Gibbs is a bust. However, some have speculated that this small group chose Gibbs on account of his small achievements...
Then the adventurer becomes, of all things, a tobacco farmer in Pennsylvania's Amish country. No outsider knows more about the sect than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have been boomed in Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Adman. Here he moves on to publicize his most complex and delightful client-himself...