New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
GENTLE friend who wishes to
remain incognito addressed the
follnuinsr letter To me:

A GENTLE friend who wishes to
~ remain incognito addressed the
following letter to me:
II am delighted to hear that the
Jewish people are on the verge of be-
coming once more a nation on their
own soil. But, as a Christian, / ar.
anxious to know how the Jews will be-
have toward the holy Christian places
in Palestine, particularly the Holy Sep
ulchrc, where our Saviour's mortal re-
mains found their first resting place.
How will the Jews, as masters Of the
land, treat that spot which is most sa-
cred to Christianity? | am, above all,
anxious TO know how the Jews feel tow
ard Christianity as religion. You will
admit that the Jews love neither Christ
nor the religion promulgated by Him.
Would not the birthplace Of Christian
ity be constant cyesorc to the Jews :?
II and good many Of my co-relig
ionists would be very anxious to hear
The opinion Of Jew of your calibre on
this battling problem
The Problem as
Seen by Jews
To the best of my ability | shall
try to shed light on this important
question.
I shall treat this "baffling problem"
from Jews point of view.
Do Jews really hate Jesus and
Christians as the Gentiles imagine?
At the inception / wish to make the
following statement:
The name Of Moses is most revered
| by the Jews; but had the Jews to
bear and suffer in the name of Moses
as they did in the name of Jesus,
they would have hated instead Of idol
lied the Founder Of the Jewish nation.
Aye, had the Jews to undergo i'll
treatment and persecution in the
name of Jehovah, they would have
hated him.
We will now look back to the time
when Jesus appeared.
To be frank, we Jews believe that
! the New Testament was rewritten and
edited by men who had reason to
blacken the character of the Jews
and tickle the vanity Of the Romans.
AS Jews we had no reason to hate
Jesus.
Our great historian Flavius Jose
phus spoke highly both of Jesus and
of all those associated with Him.
Old Records
Show No Malice
Our Mishnah, or the first code OF
Talmudic law written and arranged
during the time Of Jesus and at least
two hundred years subsequent to His
appearance, has no word of dispar
agement against the Nazarene. Oul
Midrashim. which were collected ant
edited during the first three centuries
of the Christian era, are remarkably
free from any blame or censure agains
Jesus.
On the other hand, we find strange
passages III CHc CcWiSu 1ltcIdCuIc "
those days, which speak reverently O.
a mysterious parsonage in Judaism
and there is reason to believe tha
Jesus was meant.
The first dubious remarks agains
Jesus appear both in the Babylonal
and Jerusa lemtic Talmuds, which wer
begun at the end of the third century
or at the time when Emperor Constan
tine embraced Christianity and Jewisl
persecution ensucd.
The first book showing real animos
ity toward Christianity appeared unde
the title Of "Joseph Pandra," som
time about the fourteenth or 1ifteent
, century, when Jewish suffering at tn
hands of Christians became nearly un
bearable.
But this book. written by an ignorar
man, was never received among til
learned Hebrew scholars. and was re
pudatcd by many prominent religion
teachers.
: A1,.r,xyc Pec~~.Iel