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In ADL's national director, ac- Commentary, Midge Decter says knowledged that "the problem the report is "disquieting" and "al- with issuing a critique of the re- most unrelievedly nasty." ligious right movement is that And in the Bridgeport, Conn., much of what this movement Jewish Ledger, Rael Jean Isaac, wants is right: most of us value who is on the executive commit- strong families, better schools, tee of Americans for a Safe Israel, a government that upholds its is dismayed that the report "in- commitment to religious liberty." souciantly lumps together But the religious right also friends, neutrals and enemies 'brings to cultural disagreements withut distinction." a rhetoric of fear, suspicion, even hatred. The result is not surpris- ing. real debate over the problems afflicting American society is eclipsed by the blare of grievance and blame and chauvinism, and the fragile structures of consen- sus are bulldozed by sectarian, absolutist declarations. 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Go easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. The change'll do you good. • U American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE • Pat Robertson: Problems on the right? Ms. Decter, a fellow at Wash- ington's Institute on Religion and Public Life, was especially alarmed that the ADL, "an orga- nization long regarded as expert in the study of anti-Semitism, should have singled out the con- servative Christians for oppro- brium — especially when they have perhaps been the most out- spoken friends of Israel in this country." She believes ADL was moti- vated not by religion, but by sec- ular politics: "The religious right is ... dedicated to implementing ... ideas and measures that are anathema to most liberals. In at- tacking this agenda, and the peo- ple who support it, as a threat to pluralism, the ADL has chosen to join hands with all those on the liberal left who are determined to delegitimize any challenge to the power they have long enjoyed over the basic institutions of American life and culture." The ADL, she laments, "has become guilty of the one bigotry that seems to be acceptable these days — bigotry against conserv- ative Christians." Not only Jewish publications re- cently have been devoting reams of pages to black-Jewish tensions. Emerge, which calls itself "Black America's Newsmagazine," has published a two-part series on "Farrakhan, Jesse & Jews" — a thorough, but often Farrakhan- skewed account of relations among this triad. And its Sep- tember issue also has a discus- sion between black scholars Manning Marable, director of Co- lumbia University's Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard University's Afro-American Studies Depart- ment, on the black-Jewish chasm, and a five-page article by Time magazine correspondent, Sylvester Monroe, on whether Khalid Abdul Muhammad is un- dermining the Nation of Islam. The first part of the "Far- rakhan, Jesse & Jews" series ap- peared in Emerge's July-August issue. Instead of a trenchant analysis of relations among this triumvirate by George E. Curry, the magazine's editor in chief who wrote the article, we got instead a pro-Farrakhan analysis of how the news media allegedly dis- torted the words of the leader of the Nation of Islam — and sev- eral accounts of Mr. Jackson's ap- parent disdain for the militant group. For instance, Mr. Curry re- ports that before addressing Far- N