We Jews honor and revere Jesus of Nazareth as we do our own prophets who preceded him. By his martyrdom, his teachings have been emphasized, and these are to this day I believe often better practised by the descendants of the race he sprang from than by those who have become the followers of Christ in name, but not in spirit, else the prejudice practised by the latter against Jews would not exist.…
September 5, 1899.
From M. LAZARUS, Ph.D., late Professor of Philosophy, University of Berlin, author of “Die Ethik des Judenthums,” Meran, Austria:
… I am of the opinion that we should endeavor with all possible zeal to obtain an exact understanding of the great personality of Jesus and to reclaim him for Judaism.
January 24, 1901.
The following questions were sent to a number of Jewish scholars, whose answers are tabulated below:
Question 1. Do you agree with Dr. Kohler that there was a spiritual daybreak on the shores of Galilee nineteen centuries ago, which was not sufficiently recognized by the official Sanhedrin at that time?
Q. 2. Do you esteem Jesus to have been one “sent of God” to reveal the Father more clearly to men?
Q. 3. Do you believe that his mission has been of advantage in making known to the Gentile world the God of Abraham?