CHANGE IN JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARD CHRIST.
I regard Jesus of Nazareth as a Jew of the Jews, one whom all Jewish people are learning to love. His teaching has been an immense service to the world in bringing Israel’s God to the knowledge of hundreds of millions of mankind. The great change in the Jewish thought concerning Jesus of Nazareth I can not better illustrate than by this fact: When I was a boy, had my father, who was a very pious man, heard the name of Jesus uttered from the pulpit of our synagogue, he and every other man in the congregation would have left the building, and the Rabbi would have been dismissed at once. Now, it is not strange to hear in many synagogues, sermons preached eulogistic of Jesus, and nobody thinks of protesting—in fact, we are all glad to claim Jesus as one of our people.—Dr. Isadore Singer, editor Jewish Encyclopedia.