Why pose this problem? Why must the Jews have to relate nearly every issue to their way-of-life? Indeed, this tendency has been ridiculed by the Jews themselves, when they invented such imaginary topics as "the elephant and the Jewish question." Why must the Jews, or Judaism, have to be inserted into every problem that makes its appearance in the consciousness of an individual or in the forum of society?
The answer to this question is: Judaism is a way-of-life, a culture, and whatever is a part of life, or affects life, touches that culture and affects the people who e