New York Rabbi Challenges Christendom to Revise Crucifix Ion
Story  Dr. Nathan Krass, before a record congregation of 2,500,
yesterday morning at Temple Emmanu-El, denied that the Jews were
responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Dr. Krass argued:
“The greatest popular error in Christendom is the belief that
the Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus and by a
most illogical inference that the Jews are responsible for the
crime of Calvary. Searching the records of the New Testament we
are amazed to find that far from being condemned by the
multitudes of Jews in Jerusalem at the Passover season, Jesus
was acclaimed a great hero, palm branches were waved in his
honor, and hosannahs  were chanted in appreciation of his
personality.  “Jesus taught Jewish doctrines and celebrated the
Jewish holidays and observed Jewish rites and ceremonies. He was
in many things a conforming Jew and in some like other Jewish
teachers unconventional in his interpretation of Jewish law and
custom. His disciples were Je