Once again, we apologize for the postponement of last week's newsletter to this week. Chalk it up to growth pains: We've been starting so many new projects that this newsletter has experienced a few bumps. G-d willing, there won't be too many more.

"Test Your WWIII-IQ" Contest

The answers to last issue's question spanned quite a range, several of them partly correct. Since no one got the exact answer, we can't really give a full prize this week; but since there were a few "also correct" answers, we'll go ahead and name the winners anyway. Without a doubt, our readers are putting some real thought into their responses.

"With which U.S.-based terrorist organization was the National Lawyers Guild closely connected in the 1960s and 1970s—with NLG attorneys and staff defending them in court cases, joining them as terrorists and organizers, and providing to them assistance and support?" We'll have to give our unofficial "first place" to "Dennis," who got in the door first with his answer: the Symbionese Liberation Army. "Second place" goes to TE of California; his response was the Black Panthers. "Third place" lands in the lap of SG of Brooklyn, NY for also naming the Black Panthers.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), founded under the supervision of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern) while Stalin was in charge, has certainly defended and supported virtually every significant terrorist group on American soil, including the Puerto Rican FALN, the Black Panther Party and its offshoot Black Liberation Army, the American Indian Movement, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. The NLG also jumps at every opportunity to support the PLO and its branches, including the PFLP and the Mujahedin-e-khalq.

But the number one client terrorist group under NLG protection and guidance has been, from its very inception, the Cuban-controlled Weather Underground Organization. As law enforcement authorities have discovered, the relationship between the two groups has been so close that many Weather Underground terrorists have simultaneously been members of the NLG, and the NLG has actually been caught not just providing the Weathermen legal cover, but even giving them orders and directing their terror strategy. The NLG also works closely with the branches of the Weather Underground, including the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the May 19th Communist Organization of New York.

And now for this week's contest question:

Be sure to e-mail your name and answer to [address withheld] by Sunday, May 15, 2005, 12pm PST.

This week's example: Rabbi Yoseph Y. Shusterman, Chabad of North Beverly Hills

Rabbi Shusterman received a copy of our proclamation (calling on all Jews to participate in the campaign to defund the PLO) on February 15, 2005 at 11:46am, yet we have never heard back from him. Given that we emphasized the urgency of this campaign in our cover letter, asking him to respond with 10 days, it is clear he doesn't particularly wish to sign at this time.

In last week's Torah portion (Kedoshim, Lev. 20:15), the famous Jewish sage and commentator Rashi asks why the Torah commands us to kill an animal with whom a Jew committed bestiality — or, for that matter, to destroy trees and stones that were worshipped as idols. After all, what did the animal, tree, or stone do?. His answer: Since they were the cause of someone's stumbling into sin, they do not merit to exist. Even more so, says Rashi, this applies to a conscious human being with the power of moral choice, but who uses that choice to cause another person to sin (G-d forbid!); such a person is vastly more evil than the animal, tree, or rock that never chose to cause others to sin.

Rabbi Shusterman is not just a Jewish leader as the head rabbi of his synagogue; he also serves as the Rav (head of a Jewish court) for many Jews on the West coast. By refusing to step forward and urge other Jews to get involved in the campaign to defund the PLO terrorists, Rabbi Shusterman is in the most unenviable position of setting a bad example and actually causing others to sin! May G-d soon arouse Rabbi Shusterman's conscience and bring him to a deep and profound repentance — before too many other Jews in Israel die from PLO terrorism.

What do you think about Jewish leadership on PLO defunding? Send us your comments at [address withheld].

For a complete listing of all rabbis who have received our proclamation, and the up-to-date status of their responses, visit ATTAC Report at http://www.attacreport.com/plo/.

This Week on ATTAC Report

This week's edition of our sister site, ATTAC Report, presents: A profile of the only man to predict all the 1990 changes in Eastern Europe — because, as a KGB officer, he helped plan them; an historical timeline of when Amalek's war against Judaism went underground; a map of 173 concentration camps active in Ukraine today.

"...how many Bnei Noach [are] in the world today? From how many different countries? And from what faiths?" — MC, Efrat, Israel.

Our answer: Since Hasidic Gentiles do not constitute a monolithic organization or movement, we have no way of knowing the correct answers. Informally, we have heard estimates of hundreds or thousands of people in dozens of countries who seek to fulfill the Universal Covenant of G-d's Law (often referred to, simplistically, as the "Seven Laws"). And in our experience, the vast majority of these people are former Christians — more often Protestant than anything else.

Unfortunately, most of these people are drawn into phony organizations that pose as "Noachide" or "Jewish" leadership, such as the Communist-front Root and Branch Association (RBA) of New York, the RBA-infiltrated Jews for Judaism of Toronto, Canada, the cult of J. David Davis and Jack Saunders in Tennessee, or closely connected groups. These movements gut the Hasidic Gentile mission of its content and distort its meaning, often to the point of actually turning it completely upside-down. The Waco, Texas, cult of David Koresh was one unfortunate product of these organizations and their agents of provocation.

So while there are growing numbers of former Christians seeking the Truth, too many of them have been so badly misled that we may not be able to call them "Hasidic Gentiles" at all.

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