The Synagogue Council of America which represents all rabbinical and synagogue organizations in the United States, today issued a statement denouncing the recently published book “The Bible in the Hands of Its Creators” as a volume which “is entirely incompatible with and offensive to Judaism.”
“Within its almost 2,000 pages are scattered animadversions on some of the essential religious precepts of judaism expressed in a manner tantamount to blasphemy,” the statement says. “In spirit and content the views expressed in ‘The Bible in the Hands of Its Creators’ are out of harmony with the teachings, beliefs and practices of Judaism. It displays a spirit of intolerance and irreverence toward the sanctities and the Faith of Israel, and constitutes a desecration of its holiest doctrines.
“Since “The Bible in the Hands of Its Creators” purports to have come from the pen of a Jew by birth, the Synagogue Council of America, representing a cross-section of Jewish religious community in this country, is impelled to state that the author seems to have repudiated the fundamental teachings of the Faith of his Fathers and, for all religious purposes, detached himself from the normal phases of its communion. The Synagogue Council of America does not hesitate to declare that any effort to disseminate the teaching embodied in this publication has no connection with responsible Jewish religious opinion or activity,” the statement declares.
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