So Help Me God!

Description for SO HELP ME GOD! by Herbert Tarr: It is the height of the Vietnam War. Draft-dodging has become America's number one vocation, with some 15 million men scrambling for deferments, psychiatrists, Canada, obscene tattoos, "anything" to escape the Army or jail. Ironically, while the devout Levi Simon submits to Selective Service, his irreverent friend Andrew Baron takes refuge in rabbinical school. There he discovers to his amazement that he is a full-fledged Gentile, the wrong half of him being Jewish! (Andrew's absentee father is a Jew, but Judaism regards only the child of a Jewish mother as a Jew.) The draft aside, the two friends respond as one to the beautiful Isaca Zion, who is also studying to be a rabbi. Andrew and Levi fall in love with her---and she with each of them. But then, Isaca is forced to choose between a fiance and the rabbinate. Andrew's imposture is lit with comedy---and very real danger. One mistake means loss of his draft deferment