Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-09-13
A STUDY OF JESUS THE JEW
Book by 4. Weinstock, a Liberal
Leader of His Race.
SOME ADVANCED IDEAS.
Christianity and Judaism Held to be
Supplementary to Each Other
Series OF Lectures.

Recently in New York city, there was
a remarkable spectacle, at the funeral Of
Rabbi Joseph, who was the recognized
head Of the orthodox jews Of the DultcJ
States. when $1,000 mourners followed
the hcarse which bore the remains of the
rabbi through the streets Of the east side.
This was 10 tribute to the achievements
OF the deceased rabbi in the interest of
orthodox Judaism, because the truth IS
that the fourteen years curing which the
rabbi; struggled against the prevalent
tendency to depart from the ancient
landmarks constituted n period of dis
hearte8iug failure to stem the tide Of
change. upon the topmost waves Of
which have been such progressive He
brew thinkers as DR.. Felix Adier aHd
the late Rabbi Wise. The tribute was
one 0f sympathy for deyout and
earnest man who could not command a
gencral allegiance to orthodox Judaism
anon. the thousands Of liberalized Jews
who were willing and eager to do him
homage Under the changed conditions
Of life in th If new environment on IAe
NasteTl Hemisphere, the Jews are rap
idly acgu.r ring liberal tendencies. one OF
their leaders in the new thought is Har-
riS Weinstock. who recently delivered al
Leland Stanford, Jr, University, a
paiO Alto, Cal, a series of lectures upon
the relation OF the Jews to the Gentle
world. particularly their attitude toward
the person ana teachings of Jesus. The
widespread attention commanded by
these lectures prepared the way for an
appreciative reception of Mr.. Vein
stocks book containing Jesus the jew
aud Other AdrcsseS, just published by
the Funk & Wagnalls Company, NNw
York. In these addresses. Mr.. Nein-
stock gives expression to his advanced
ideas In manner to command wrapt at
Rabbi Cried "sacrilege"
Concerning Jesus the Jew" he recalls
see"e ~ bis hnyhood days when he
aa. Other Jewish lads surrounded the
old lalhj from whom they received their
religion, training Ore OF the pupils
brought into the school a book containing
&le name OF Jesus The rabbi became
greatly excited, cXclaming "Sacr1lege!
Sacri.e-e" and delivered an imprisoned
Address to the boys upon the terrible SUI
feriHgS to which the Jews had been SUD-
jec,"d because Of Jesus. He told them
how aha Jews had been made outeasts
a!d wanderers upon the face of the
earth how for hundreds Of years they
had been robbed and pillaged, tortured
ami plundcred: how their boards had
been torn from their roots. their teeth
drawn from their jaws, their bodies cast
into foul dungeons; how, time and again
they had been pur on the rack, subjected
10 the thumbscrew and burned M the
stake, all on account of Jesus. These
utterances made a deep impression on
young WeinstOck, but the rabbits warnings
gave the subject some Of the attractive
ness of forbidden fruit. and the student
sooa acquired a profound interest in the
life and teachings OF the man from Cali
lee. He says in his lecture on Jesus
the jew" II read the story Of his life
as told in the New Testament: [ read
the conception of Jesus as portrayed by
sOm2 of the ablest modern Jewish and
Christian scholars; | carefully studied
his GtteranceS as presented in the gos-
p2s; and the picture of this great and
wonderful character grey, to me to be a
very different one from hat painted by
my teacher | found thGt, according To
New Testament traditions Jesus was
jaw. | fOund that he had
preached nothing but Judaism in its
purcSt and simplest form. | found that
the thought of establishing new belief,
ar even new sect, was farthest from
his mird; thct his arm was not to FOL-
low after the heather, but to seek ont
the lost sheep of the house Of Israel.
y
knew nothing about the Trinity, Vicar
Gus Atouemcnt, Election. predestinatiou
and many other Christian dogmas He
simply knew Judaism, the religion of his
birth. which he practiced and preached,
and which he Tried to keep pure ana I'M
dehiei. | found that his mi sion seemed
ia he Ga nphft the l0wsY AMI 10 expose
wickedness in high places | found that
he gaze his heart, his soul ana his very
being to the poor, 20 the sick and to the
needy. He said; = am not come Ia heal
the sound; ! nave heeu sent unto the
sick | found that he was man Of
uubuuulaa svmpaihies aud Of great
moral courage; that he was simply strly-
ing to practice and 80 preach the great
moral code established by Moses and the
prophets, and 10 put into practice liter
ally in his daily life the great law givrr'S
rreccpt Of love thy ueighbor as thy
self"
Delved Into Christianity.
This view Of Jesus led by Mr.. Vein
stock To study of Christianity. and the
causes Of Jewish persecution. He says
1t took but a little reading 10 learn that
Paul. the GreCian jew, and not Jesus
was the real founder of Christianity; that
Paul was the man who conceived the
idea nf spreading Judaism among the
Gentjles by preaching the God Of Israel
and the man Jesus, the sou of God. He
says he found il was pauls heroic quail
ties which enabled him. despite the Sc
vercSt persecution by Jew and Gentle,
to surround himself with n large follow
ing not of Jews alone, but of heather
rs we'll. who became believers in the
Jewish God. and worshiperS of the Jew
ish carpenter, Jesus, whom they accepted
as the son of God. sent upon earth 10
save the human family hence, begctting
new theology lrrpncoucllNGle with the
doctrines and discipline of the rabbits