Basic Judaism has always ac-
cepted Jesus as, "despite his de-
fects, a great man, a gifted and
exalted teacher."

Reviewer Lauds
`Basic Judaism'

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Friday, September 12, 1941

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BR Youth Head

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

And Best Wishes to All

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DEFECTS MINOR
THE DEFECTS of Basic Ju-
daism are relatively minor. One
could wish for a more extensive
exposition of Rabbi Steinberg's
(which is to say, Mordecai Kap-
lan's) personal interpretation of
the God idea for this day.
Though to be sure, that might
open him to the charge of
renewed partisanship in a vol-
AVOIDS EXTREMES
ume which he was patently de-
NOWHERE DOES Rabbi
termined to keep objective.
Steinberg present the fundamen-
tal differences between Chris-
It would have been wise to
tianity and Judaism more clearly describe specifically the pass-
than in his superb paragraphs ages contained in the mezuzah,
on Jesus. Skillfully he avoids a point on which alarmingly
both extremes: that of the Jew large numbers of Jews are un- Rabbi Atnram Piero who
to whom, understandably enough believably ignorant. And in the heads national Bnai Brith
in the light of history, the very otherwise excellent exposition of youth activities.
name Jesus is anathema; that the Messiah idea in Judaism
of the Jew so pitifully in need some mention should have been
of acceptance that he cravenly made of the Chassidic doctrine
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
makes Jesus out to be the great- that each human being bears
est of the Hebrew prophets.
within him a tiny spark of Mes-
To Rabbi Steinberg, as to Rab- siah and that only when all such
La Fleur Barber &
bi Nathan Krass some years ago, sparks have been united will the
Messiah
truly
be
able
to
appear.
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Jesus was neither a demon nor
a prophet, but rather an extra- But these defects are largely
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est to Jewish tradition and who always explicit and clear, and
was weakest precisely when he which on occasion rises to the
departed from that tradition. level of sheer poetry.
Best Wishes for a Happy and
Prosperdits New Year

his own active atonement. Says
the Christian, in thq words of
the New Testament: "Believe
and ye shall be saved." Says
the Jew, through the mouth' of
an ancient Rabbi who presumes
to speak for God: "Would that
men forsook Me, if only they
kept My law!"
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