Rabbi Daniel Lapin, long a figure on the religious right, has a warning for his conservative Christian friends:  books now on the shelves in the nation's book stores threaten them like Osama Bin Laden and Adolph Hitler. At least a little. Or maybe a lot.

Lapin says they are part of a "propaganda blitzkreig" -- one that puts TV talk show host  Bill O'Reilly's claimed war on Christmas to shame: The war is on Christianity itself.  Well, at least, you know, the right kinds of Christians. Lapin writes in the World Net Daily:  

The war is against those who regard the Bible to be God's revelation to humanity and the Ten Commandments to be His set of rules for all time.

Toward Tradition, the one of the leading organizations of the Jewish element of the religious right is going out of business due to it's involvement in the still-unfolding Abramoff scandal.

 Abramoff had been as much a part of the life of the organization as the cause of its demise. He served on the Toward Tradition board until 2004 and served two terms as chairman.

It turns out that Senate investigators have shown how Abramoff used Toward Tradition head Daniel Lapin as a sock puppet for his corporate clients, notably the Channel One Network that pipes a little "news" and a whole lot of commercials into American public school classrooms.

Last week, on the eve of GOP superlobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty pleas in a widening federal corruption probe, I summarized the relationship between Abramoff, several religious right leaders, and Abramoff's lobbying campaign on behalf of eLottery, an internet gambling company. Abramoff funneled eLottery cash to three religious right entitities as part of his campaign to derail the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 2000. A company headed by Ralph Reed, the founding executive director of the Christian Coalition had received $150,000; The Traditional Values Coalition, headed by Rev. Lou Sheldon, received $25,000; and Toward Tradition, an Orthodox Jewish foundation based in Seattle and headed by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, receieved $25,000 from eLottery. Abramoff was a board member and former board chairman of Toward Tradition.

Now, The Seattle Times reports further details about the role of Toward Tradition in the growing scandal.