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Friday, September 12, 1947

without perceiving that where from human beings whom it
Christianity, by a strange and deems to be God-like and basi-
unrealistic paradox, demands cally good. While Christianity
Christ-like perfection of human believes men can be saved vi-
flesh which it proclaims to be cariously, by someone else's sac-
evil and weighed down by orig- rifice, Judaism insists that each
inal sin, Judaism expects only man achieves salvation only by
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It woudl be diffficult to over- gradual, evolutive improvement
estimate the importance of what
Rabbi Steinberg has here done.
Of late there has been far too
much spurious and superficial
identification of Judaism and
Christianity. The phrase "Ju-
daeo-Christian heritage" has
been heavily overworked. We
Jews ourselves, or certain ones
among us. have at times ap-
roached the point of ideological
suicide in our frantic zeal to !
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demonstrate how little we differ
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berg offers us a panoramic view
of Judaism. The result is an
understanding, as clearly needed
by many Jews as by most Chris-
tians, of what Judaism as a liv-
ing faith is all about.

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The 'illegal' Arab army; about MON strong, is moulding itself
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Palestine. Once divided into two factions, Najada and Futuwa,
it is now limited under the jurisdiction of the Arab Higher
Committee's absentee chairman, the former grand mufti of
Jerusalem.

Reviewer Lauds
`Basic Judaism'

Steinberg's Volume
Is Called Effective

By RABBI
ROLAND B. GITTELSOHN
(Editor's Note: Rabbi Git-
telsohn, famous as the Marine
chaplain at Iwo Jima, reviews
"Basic Judaism," (Harcourt,
Brace and Co., N.Y.), the ,new
book by Rabbi Milton Stein-
berg, the spiritual leader of
New York's Park Avenue
Synagogue. Rabbi Gittelsohn
is the Rabbi of the Central
Synagogue of Nassau County,
Rockville Centre, N.Y., and
the riational chaplain of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
U.S.)

EAST PERFORMANCE alone
would justify a large meas-
ure of eager excitement at the
mere announcement of a new
volume on Judaism by Rabbi
Milton Steinberg. A careful
reading of his book, "Basic Ju-
daism," fully justifies the excite-
ment of anticipation.
Among the varying and differ-
ing interpretations of the Jewish
faith, the author is scrupulously
free of both partisanship and
prejudice. He has undertaken
here the far from easy task of
writing a primer or handbook of
that basic Judaism which is "the
common denominator of all the
elements of Judaism through all
its history." And he has done
an uncommonly effective job.

PANORAMIC VIEW
AFTER SETTING forth in
two very brief chapters the
framework within which he
proposes to speak, Rabbi. Stein-

At its worst, this false iden-
tification leads to the assumption
among Jewish liberals that be-
cause some religions have indeed
served as opiates for the people,
therefore Judaism too must be
guilty of that serious fault. At
its best (?) we have the type of
so-called brotherhood movement
which minimizes legitimate dif-
ferences to the point where Ju-
daism no longer has any strong
claim to survival.
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HONEST INTERPRETATION
WITHOUT EVER once joining
the issue directly, Rabbi Stein-
berg sets forth clearly and hon-
estly Judaism's uniqueness as a
philosophy and a faith. Fur-
thermore, without ever once be-
coming dogmatic or chauvinistic,
he does it with such vigorous
eloquence as to evoke in the
honest Jewish reader no small
measure of satisfaction and
pride.
One cannot read these pages

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