BERGER, Elmer. Anti-racist Jewish American & anti-Zionist Jewish Reform rabbi: "The best and finest of Judaism today transcends the Jewish people… Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God"

Elmer Berger (anti-racist Jewish American, anti-Zionist Jewish Reform rabbi and executive director of the American Council for Judaism from its founding in 1942 until 1955) in the introduction to his book “A Partisan History of Judaism”: “There are those who see Judaism as ‘the religion of the Jewish People.’ This book will not please them. For it indicates, unmistakably, that the origins of Judaism were not in ‘the Jewish people’ and that the best and finest of Judaism today transcends the Jewish people… Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance” (“Jewish Intellectuals Who Have Opposed Zionism and/or Israeli Racism, Injustices, Occupation, Apartheid and/or Ethnic Cleansing”, Hypertext: http://www.thehypertexts.com/Jewish%20Intellectuals%20Who%20Opposed%20Zionism%20Israel%20Racism%20Injustices%20Apartheid%20Ethnic%20Cleansing.htm ).