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American Torah Toons: 54 Illustrated Commentaries

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The Torah is alive in the twenty-first century. TT is an interpretation, an explanation, a midrosh through the mind of Lawrence Bush scholar, humorist, baby boomer, psychoanalyzed popculture politico graphic artist.

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Aside from being deviod of any Torah content, the "toons" are not toons at all but rather a series of non sequitial collages that look like they were put together overnight. Actually, this book is so bad and anti-insightful I wish I could un-read it. One reviewer recommends to "give [this book] to Jews with a sense of humour," I think it is more appropriate for Jews with brain damage. In one chapter (Toldot) the author writes how he got "high with a little help from his friends". I believe it; he must have been high when he wrote this atrocity to art, Torah and anything decent.

BS"D This book shows how very assimilated American Jews have become and how proud of it some of them are. It is heretical, uninformed, and an all around waste of money. Someone bought it for me not realizing what it was exactly and I ended up throwing it in the trash where it belongs.

A spectacular book for scholar or goy. Lawrence Bush deserves a standing ovation for the wit and personality put into this book.