AN INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM
By Nicholas de Lange
Cambridge University Press. 247 pages. £13.95
ISBN 0 521 46624 5
Jews have always seemed to be an integral part of the society in which I have lived. Two of my best friends at school were Jews. I lived for years with the local synagogue at the end of the garden. But when my son started dating a Jewish girl I met something unfamiliar - a Jew who did not know the meaning of the Passover!
Which went to the heart of an assumption I had unwittingly made ˘ that Judaism today is much the same as it was when Jesus was alive. Had it changed much in the intervening 2,000 years, and if so how?
