My friend Mark Gerson has long been pushing me to write a column about how "being religious" should be defined first by ethical behavior and only after by ritual observance. Boy was he prophetic.
Unless you've been a space-tourist with Virgin Galactic the past few weeks you will know that on Feb. 1 I will publish "Kosher Jesus," the true story of Jesus' Jewish life -- culled from early Christian and Jewish sources -- that portrays Jesus as a Torah-observant teacher who instructed his followers to keep every letter of the Law, whose teachings quoted extensively from the Bible and rabbinical writings, fought Roman paganism and persecution of the Jewish people, and was killed by Pontius Pilate for his rebellion against Rome, the Jews having had nothing whatsoever to do with his murder.
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