I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

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

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.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

To change, to convert? Why bother?