While Jews prepare for Pesach and Christians prepare for Easter, it is a proper time to consider and to grasp the enormous blessings of these great faiths of Jews and Christians, both of which are reviled and slandered and despised not because of their failures, but because of their triumphs. It is part of Judaism and of Christianity to accept the grim fact that the world despises those who follow these religions.  This hatred is profoundly irrational.  Consider the rage vented on Israel, which wishes only peace on that narrow strip of land that is holy to Jews.  Consider the rage vented on Christians in the media for following the Gospel of Love.  Yet nearly every good and noble movement or deed has its roots in Judaism or Christianity.  The status of women, for example, found liberation in the rights granted to women in Judaic law and the special honor bestowed on the many great women in the Tanakh, something revolutionary in the...(Read Full Article)