Anti-Semitism: Childhood Lessons

Re “Anti-Semitism: an All-American Attribute,” Commentary, May 2: I attended a Catholic school for six years. I cannot recall a nun telling me that one religious group went after Jesus to kill him. It always seemed to me to just have been an angry mob. I guess if you look hard enough to be persecuted, you will be.

Tim Ashford

Culver City

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Attributing the murder of Jesus to present-day Jews is ridiculous. Christians, in being angry at Jews throughout the centuries, have overlooked one aspect that I learned at age 7 from my very Jewish-looking grandfather as we were boarding a bus in Brooklyn, N.Y. According to Christianity, Jesus suffered and died to save humanity. Without his being killed, this could not have been achieved. Upon being asked by an irate old lady in the bus why he, my grandfather, killed Jesus, the old man calmly looked at her and replied, “To save a sinner like you, lady!”

Stuart Lubin

Los Angeles