A book called “Judaism,” aimed to explain the Jewish religion and Jewish religious practices to Catholic high school students, has been written here by a rabbi and will be published by the Paulist Press, in New York. The Paulist Press is conducted by the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, a Catholic order.
Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg, rabbi of Beth Tzedec Congregation here, who has written the book on commission by the Paulist priests, dedicated the work “to the Paulist Fathers, whose love of God and fellow man made it seemly in their eyes to ask a rabbi to tell Christians of Judaism.” The Rev. E.L. Lader, a priest who was formerly on the staff of the Catholic Information Center here, wrote an introduction to “Judaism,” declaring: “For a Roman Catholic publisher such as the Paulist Press to publish a book on Jewish religion, written by a rabbi, is an ecumenical first even in 1966.”
Dr. Rosenberg makes it clear in his book that he is opposed to Catholic missionary work among Jews, declaring that Christians should gear their proselytizing work “to pagans and not to those who have already found God.”
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