A sermon by Rabbi Edward N. Calisch of this city has been published and is being distributed by the National Conference on Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The sermon, “Easter and the Story of the Crucifixion,” attacks the historicity of the crucifixion story as told in the gospels and makes a plea for reconsideration of it by Christian preachers.
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