Raphael spends 99 pages exploring J. Robert Oppenheimer's flight (in Raphael's eyes) from his Jewishness and the efforts of his opponents in the 1950s to brand him a communist sympathizer. At the same time, he sidetracks into defending Judaism in general, and Israel in particular. Mostly this seems a somewhat stream-of-consciousness effort by Raphael to (successfully) demonstrate his superior brainpower. In the midst of a somewhat over-intellectualized book, Raphael nevertheless scores more than a handful of points against a wide variety of targets. In the end, I'm not quite sure what to make of this book, but it has given me some insights into Jewishness that had never occurred to me before. ( )