Jews Are Just Like Everyone Else, Only

I Learnt Pity, Sympathy, And What It Was Like To Be At The Other End Of The Stick. Such Lessons Can't Be Learnt In Lecture Halls.

I Thought Of Such Christian Inventions As The Ghetto And The Jewish Badge Of Shame. The Nazis Didn't Have To Go Very Far To Pick Up Their Know-how.

My Mother Was A Modern Woman With A Limited Interest In Religion. When The Sun Set And The Fast Of The Day Of Atonement Ended, She Shot From The Synagogue Like A Rocket To Dance The Charleston.

I Have Ended As A Reform Rabbi, Grateful To Christianity For So Many Good Things.

Early On I Saw The Repression And Idolatry Of Stalinism, And When It Cracked, I Was Open To Religion Again.