This is a very funny book. I was unaware that it is possible to fart wistfully, but I deem it salubrious and intend to cultivate the practice henceforth.
This is a very sad book. I found it painful to be reminded of how so many performing Jews have thought it professionally expedient to goyify their names in order to gain acceptance by an alien culture that values them for their exceptional intelligence, wit, and joyfulness while hating them for their obvious superiority in those same qualities.
This is a very profound book. Newman Fears bounces about the Solar System willy nilly in search of the secret of the Jews and finds that secret closely guarded by threat of extermination, but he nonetheless persists. What he finds, in a most unlikely place, is that what actually defines a Jew is far narrower than what most people think, but that Jewishness is far more inclusive than most people realize. He also finds that the lack of Jewishness that characterizes most gentiles is an affliction imposed on them by hegemons that robs them of their God nature and their sense of holiness and divinity. That appalling deprivation is the root of the jealous envy and abiding hatred in which gentile society holds its sacred Jewish bretheren.
For this reader, the take-home message in Jews on the Moon is that whether or not we are actually Jews in the narrow sense, we can, if we choose, all be Jewish, and in being so, immeasurably gladden, enrich, and sanctify our lives, whoever and wherever we may be.
David Bennett Laing (author of Beautyworld and Eustacia's Secret: A Love Story)
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