Mystery
From The Joe Frank Wiki
| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| November 19, 2000 | |
| Cast | |
| Roy Eisenstein, Niles Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Khalid Muhammad | |
| Format | |
| Real People, 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Silent Sea |
| Followed by: | Brothers |
"I must say that I did not come to Los Angeles to tiptoe through the tulips."
Mystery is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on November 19, 2000.
Synopsis
- A racist speech by former NOI spokesman Khalid Muhammad: Comparing the Holocaust to African history. Why kill the women and babies? "Kill them again."
- A guy named Eisenstein talks about being Jewish in the US military and being confronted by racist soldiers. Jew as a six syllable word. A friendship between two 'steins. Antisemitic comments lead to a fight in a soldiers' bar.
- Joe in a conversation with a rabbi: Jewish scholarship and the ambiguous god. Believing in something with no rational support because it is comforting. A child frightened in a room who believes in nearby parents as an analogy for man and god. No atheists in foxholes re-re-interpreted. What one does when confronted with the face of the absurd.
- Muhammad: comparing Jews to parasites.
- Eisenstein: taking Benzedrine and sharing a room with a couple having sex. The guy he fought apologizes. After the fight he is respected by the others in his unit.
- Rabbi conversation: Cruelty in the animal kingdom, transcending ethics, believing in something that cannot even be defined. *Kornfield on suffering.
- Rabbi conversation: believing because of a handful of experiences. Theism as an irrational belief. God compared to unrequited love in poetry. If humans need god, does that imply god.
Music
Additional Credits
With:
- Roy Eisenstein
- Rabbi Niles Goldstein, author of God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places
- Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank
- With excerpts from a speech by Khalid Muhammad in Los Angeles 5/27/1994.
- Production by Bob Carlson
- Music consultant Thomas Golubic
- Production assistance Esme Gregson
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