Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

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

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