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Each year, it happens in
Jewish day schools around
the country, no matter what
the affiliation, no matter
what the location.
Students are asked to
write a report on a famous
Jewish person and they
pick Albert Einstein.
Einstein was indeed
Jewish, though he had
little to do with Judaism •
His first wife was a gen-
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What will first capture and hold
you, though, in this pleasant work is
not really the words — it's the illustra-
tions. They're fabulous.
Joani Rothenberg is an art therapist,
and her faces here are often poignant-
ly expressive. They're beautiful, but
sometimes very angry, very loving
and very afraid. The artwork is also
colorful and bright, just the sort of
thing to appeal to children.
The story is a reworking of the
famous Cain and Abel tale. Sasso
has taken quite a few liberties, but
generally the story flows. The two
brothers are the best of friends
until they begin to argue
whether it is better to be a
farmer or a shepherd.

Cain insisted that God loved the
farmer best.
`After all, God planted the first gar-
den," he declared.
Abel argued that God loved the shep-
herd best. (After all, God created the ani-
mals and watches over them," he insisted.
Finally, Cain takes up a rock and
throws it at his brother, and the peace-
ful world ends.
This starts an argument that never
ends, to this day. People now "sigh as
they read of Cain picking up the rock,"
Sasso writes. "They want to hold back _
his hand and stop his anger frorri
growing into hate. Perhaps one day,
when each person learns to reach out
an open hand without the rock, with-
out the sword, without the gun, the
entire world can be saved."

express
belief in God —
because, he said, the world was too
ordered to believe otherwise — he
never practiced his faith. He was a
supporter of the State of Israel, and
was even asked to become its first
president. The Nazis persecuted
Einstein because of his religion, but
other than that, there wasn't too
much that was Jewish about Einstein.
This little book gives a good intro-
duction to Einstein's life and fairly
reflects his secularism. Interestingly,
Who Was Albert Einstein? makes -no
note at the outset that he was born a
Jew. Instead, we learn of that only
when we come to the chapter about
the drive to create Israel.
Here, on page 69 (more than half
way through the book) you will find
the statement, "Albert was Jewish."
Still, if you have a child interested