Judging Jewish Identity in the United States:This book focuses on the first case to provide Jewish Americans with race based civil rights to highlight the complexity of White perceived Jewish racialization in the United States. In 1982, vandals defaced Shaare Tefila Congregation with Ku Klux Klan and neo Nazi images and slogans. In the subsequent court case, the congregation's lawyers were required to invoke "race" based statutes since no "religion" based laws applied to the desecration.