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Shahak contends that American Jews "deify" the state of Israel, thereby losing their ability to constructively criticize policies they would oppose in other situations. His writing on that subject is explosive. He asserted in a bulletin published by his group in 1972 that "the majority of fellow Jews... worship the material State of Israel like our ancestors worshipped the Golden Calf and Baal...
...pains me very much that such a great part of my people are in what I can only describe as a state of apostasy. Instead of worshipping God and only God, instead of following and being true to the idea of Justice... they are not only doing the reverse, not only taking refuge in the most crude tribalism and worship of force, but literally cutting the branch on which they are sitting, I say to them: By your hypocrisy and double-thinking, by your condoning and supporting racism and oppression, you are bringing a calamity on your own heads. Everything...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...part of the faith. Exactly what that faith is, though, is confusing to the outsider. Although the Messianic Jews hold to orthodox Christian doctrines such as the deity of Christ, which Judaism considers idolatry, they often shun labels like "convert" or "Christian." Some retain Jewish traditions like Saturday worship and the wearing of skullcaps, or call their leaders "rabbis" and their meeting places "synagogues." To Jewish leaders such as Tanenbaum, they are simply Christian evangelists masquerading as Jews to gain more converts. In any case, since the late 1960s, perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 young U.S. Jews have decided...
...Summer. No longer the nostalgic chronicler, the detached Kahn is drier, less compelling. But that is not enough to kill the book; indeed, it only makes it easier for Kahn to create sharper, less biased portraits where once he had to struggle against the hazy aura of youthful hero worship...