Take the Best From Two Worlds
In their letters published April 23, two writers take issue with Pamela Warrick’s article explaining how her family observed both Passover and Easter, arguing that such a dual observance trivialized both religions.
That of course, is one way of looking at it, but let me suggest that there is another one as well.
It is best expressed perhaps by a quotation from Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), a man who by both his writings and his nobility of character contributed as much as any single individual to Jewish emancipation. To a friend, he wrote: “What a happy world we would live in if all people would accept, and act on, those tenets that the best Christians and the best Jews hold in common.”
JOACHIM REMAK
Santa Barbara
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