Thursday, August 24, 2006

New Book Exposes Lying, Violence-Prone Hasidic Judaics

Hoffman's Note: Author David Assaf tells some yarns of his own: contrary to what he claims, there is no clear evidence that Moshe Schneerson died in a mental hospital after his conversion; and the account of the Seer of Lublin's erection while passed out in a septic tank, was an authentic Hasidic miracle tale retailed all over Eastern Europe.

But those quibbles aside, Assaf offers real insight into the Orthodox Judaic mentality of lying, censorship, violence, personal attacks and extreme exaggeration. Gentiles who have witnessed this behavior in other realms (such as World War II history and the treatment accorded revisionists and anti-Talmudists), will nod their heads in recognition at what is a recurring Orthodox Judaic behavior mode. Unfortunately, at present Assaf's book is only available in Hebrew (and then, just barely, as you'll see). An English edition would wreak havoc with the notion that Orthodox Judaism is a religion of strict moral rectitude, and with the pious books about Hasidic saints written by prevaricators Martin Buber and Elie Wiesel, which have been eagerly taken up by dopey Neo-Con Catholics and goofy Protestant Fundamentalists for whom Orthodox rabbis are the West's "conservative allies" in the "clash of civilizations" and the struggle for "family values."

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-book-exposes-lying-violence-prone.html