Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

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In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

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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.

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