Christians have done their best and worst to convert the Jews, with a range of persuasions running from sweet reasonableness to slow torture. The Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary zeal. It was not always thus; Jesus described the Pharisees as crossing "sea and land to make one proselyte," and one Maccabean king, John Hyrcanus I (135-104 B.C.), even compelled the conquered Idumeans to become Jews and undergo circumcision. But in the main, Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according to the bulk...
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