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Comedy Store NEW TALENT NIGHT BRUCE "BABYMAN" BAUM "Robert Klein Special" & "Don Rickles Wise Guys" 4616 N. WOODWARD, Royal Oak blks. S. of 14 Mile 549-2323 c Jews r;--,i ), 4, J. 11 441:13t'i? THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -1 ID tz'l IL Friday, February 18, 1983 39 Without Mercy' a Polemic of the Left By EZEKIEL LEIKIN premise that Jews embrac- can Jews," which auto- mercy, but on interests" as In his foreword to his ing leftist causes and matically drains them of if preceding administra- highly controversial "Jews ideologies with their "ethi- Jewish feelings of mercy tions — both Democratic Without Mercy" (Anchor cal, historical and cultural and compassion. - and Republican — acted Press/Doubleday), Earl authority"(?) are the au- Shorris apparently otherwise. never heard of Lord Shorris states: "I did not thentic, "merciful" Jews. Shorris postulates that want to write this book." Those who veer to the Passfield (Sidney Webb), "only by example of mercy Having read it, this re- right (of Earl Shorris, one Ernest Bevin - and were Jews able to depend viewer is impelled to ask: presumes) are Jews without Kreisky, all leftists with upon mercy for their survi- "Why did you?" mercy. "Is a person without impeccable Socialist cre- val"(?) and, in another con- Jacobo Timerman, him- mercy a Jew because his dentials, who have, as is text he avers: "to be power- self an author, who since his parents are Jews or because generally known, dis- less is an invitation to vir- release from Argentine jails he chooses to call himself a played an innate, "leftist" tue," a virtue most Ameri- has been enmeshed in con- Jew?", the author muses. sense of mercy towards can Jews can do without. siderable controversy, And while excoriating the Jews and Israel. He falsely attributes commends the book as "pre- neo conservatives, who A few "gems" from the the statement that "God c' ely the shock of aware- voted for Reagan and em- book are illustrative of the does not hear the prayers ess we need in Diaspora braced the policies of author's twisted reasoning: of a Jew" to Jerry Fal- and in Israel." I strongly Menahem Begin, another Quoting Nathan Glazer — well, presumably to in- disagree.. "neo-conservative," Shorris glaringly out of context --- clude the leader of the Earl Shorris, whose liter- proceeds to vent his fury as having said, "Jews are a Moral Majority in his ary credentials include upon the "xenophobia" of people of the left." Once sweeping, all-embracing other books of fiction and the Israeli Prime Minister they abandon that position definition of a neo- non-fiction, is not without and upon Zionism, in gen- — Shorris interjects — conservative. - merit as an essayist and eral ("there were no Zionists "they are set adrift." In a personal reference, In another chapter, he Shorris states that "flattery story teller. Yet "Jews in my family, nor were there Without Mercy," apart from any. .epublicans," he con- writes: "They (neo- makes me uncomfortable." its readable style and in- fides); thus, "Israel, the im- conservatives) provide It would be an act of mercy terspersed flashes of aginary power . . . serves rationalizations to an ad- not to make the author of thought-provoking dis- as an excuse for every new ministration that does not "Jews 'without Mercy" un- courses and character move to the right by Ameri- base its actions on justice or comfortable in any way. sketches, has few redeem- ing qualities as a serious and well-documented polemical statement. Stripped of its extrane- ous literary embellish- ments, the book is an all- out attack against the "neo-conservatives" such as Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kris- 191 1411111111101• tol, Daniel Bell, Midge 40 vIIA :4•64 7. te.••.. • Decter, Seymour Martin Lipsett; Sidney Hook and others, who committed the cardinal sin of "abandoning" the Jewish tradition of liberalism, "betraying" Also Enjoy Our Fine Menu Downstairs In The Jewish concepts of ethics and morality, while forg- Beautiful and Intimate STEAK BAR ing a more pragmatic — and in Shorris' view — JUSTIN PAUL & TRILOGY IN THE ANNEX "merciless" strategy for Wed. thru Sat. American Jews to follow. 29230 Franklin Road Shorris quotes exten- at Twelve Mile and Northwestern Hwy. sively and selectively from such disparate sources as 357-3430 Sartre, Leo Baeck, Maimonides, Peretz, as well as the Scriptures and the Maggid of Mezritch in a vain attempt to sustain his d orvirw o. bizzare, indeed irrational . - S II. • • A Detroit's Original • A Test-Tube Birth Is Second for Israel TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is- rael's second test-tube baby was born by Caesarian sec- tion in the Sheba govern- ment hospital at Tel Hashomer Feb. 9. The boy's mother, Miriam Kleiner, 35, had been child- less throughout the 10 years of her marriage. The opera- tion was carried out by local anesthetic, with the mother fully alert throughout. Medical sources said that very few of the 100 babies born through ex-uterine fertilization had been males. Of the total number of test tube babies to date, 59 have been born in Brit- ain, 34 in Australia, 11 in the U.S., and 3 in France. 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