How Hate Grows

The unusual British group that helped spawn the Christian Identity
Movement.

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Cameron was a Cana- point, how could he have sinned
dian native who worked at all?"
Also discussed in the English
for Henry Ford, in a vari-
ety of capacities, beginning section are the Chasidic ap-
in 1918. He also was a lay proaches to difficult marriages
minister who preached and child-rearing.
Rabbi Silberberg is head of
throughout Michigan.
Cameron insisted the Bais Chabad Torah Center of
anti-Semitic views in the West Bloomfield.
en years ago Tamar
Independent were not his
Frankiel was an ambitious
own. But he never labeled
career woman who loathed
The Protocols of the Elders
the idea of what she saw as
(portions
of
which
of Zion
appeared in the Ford pa- Orthodox Judaism's definition of
per) a forgery, and he re- "a woman's place."
Today, she is an observant Jew
mained a British-Israelism
supporter to the end of his who finds herself "speaking in
life.
Professor Barkun also
Christian Iden-
discusses
Members of WAR (White Aryan Resistance), at
tity
and
the
KKK, the Or-
a rally in Portland, Ore.
der, the Aryan Nations
n 1967, Gordon Kahl wrote and the Posse Comitatus, whose
the IRS that he would no members are certain that they
longer turn over a penny to the are "doing the Lord's work"
against "evildoers."
federal government.
local rabbi offers new in-
"(I won't) pay tithes to the Syn-
sight into Beresheet (Gen-
agogue of Satan," he said. He was
esis) and writings by
furious that the United States
eading Chasidic leaders in
"has fallen into the hands of alien
people... These enemies of Christ L'Kovod Tzadik: Novenae on
have taken their Jewish Com- Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim
munist Manifesto and incorpo- and on the Shulchan Aruch .,
rated it into the Statutory Laws Harav and Insights on Sefer 2
of our country and thrown our Bereishis (published by Laine
Constitution and our Christian Press in New York and available `-=
Common Law..into the garbage through Bais Chabad Torah Cen- 5,
ter in West Bloomfield).
can."
Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg's
Kahl, who was killed in 1983
by the FBI, was a member of the work is the third in a series, and What is the proper place for women in
Christian Identity Movement, an considers the differing perspec- the synagogue? One author has
anti-Semitic group active in the tives of Rabbi Schneur Zalman definite ideas
with such figures as Rabbi Elijah
United States.
In Religion and the Racist ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon) much the same way (Orthodox
women once) spoke to me." She
Right (The University of North and Rabbi Akiva Eiger.
With portions in English and has no interest in reading Torah
Carolina Press), Michael Barkun
traces the movement from its be- Hebrew, L'Kovod Tzadik begins — she has "enough mitzvot to do
ginnings in England to its present, by discussing Adam, Eve and the myself' — and she believes rais-
arguing that Christian Identity is tree of knowledge. "What makes ing children is one of the most im-
behind much of the right wing in this episode so unusual is the fact portant things a woman can do.
In The Voice of Sarah: Fem-
that many of our sages, includ-
political circles today.
Mr. Barkun, professor of po- ing Rashi and Ramban, teach us inine Spirituality & Tradi-
(Biblio Press),
litical science at Syracuse Uni- that it was through this sin that tional Judaism
Mrs.
Frankiel
considers
the world
versity, says the Christian man acquired free will," Rabbi
of
the
modern
feminist
and ob-
Silberberg
writes.
"But
if
man
Identity Movement began with a
small, strange group, British-Is- had no free will up until this servant Jew (Mrs. Frankiel de-
scribes herself as
raelism, in Victorian England,
both). Her work, she
where a handful of Protestants
says, began as an
claimed that the British were ac-
outgrowth of her own
tually the 10 lost tribes of Israel.
search into the role of
Basing his research on Chris-
women in Judaism
tian Identity Movement litera-
as she began em-
ture, he goes on to consider how
bracing tradition.
the group came to and flourished
In her first chap-
in America. One of its leading ' L (),
ter,
chronicling the
supporters was a former Detroit ,E .-
biblical matriarchs
g.
,
reporter
named
William
News
(whom she calls the
CD
J. Cameron.
Mothers),
Mrs.
Dearborn
'2)
Later editor of the
Frankiel
focuses
on
Independent, Henry Ford's week-
Sarah,
Rivka
(Rebec-
ly, Cameron was "a committed
ca), Rachel and Leah.
Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg.
British-Israelite."

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