Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:40:26 -0500 Message-ID: <55EA01BD.5DF@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:40:29 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Book Review: Einstein: His Space and Times References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-MF2tDWfoOOsv+iW+JrhVZUduKpJr7am3vF+y6OiKiDpZbXY41DSJ1ga1QkAQFsWaSP9VZNB2K3C1+J9!OHEDgVDezN1E52uBjON0BOViUdtdlIMwUW2QEdcunoZ0NjpyKLUMPxU4VI1VPG8Wb2HowIpnCFWu!/0bNAgE= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2079 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:518938 Sam Wormley wrote: > > Book Review: Einstein: His Space and Times > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-einstein-his-space-and-times/ > > > Einstein renounced religion at the age of 12, when he decided his > > Jewish beliefs were incompatible with the analytical mind-set of his > > truer devotion, science. Yet the world never stopped seeing him as a > > Jew, and over time he became a champion for his oppressed people and > > a supporter of the Zionist cause. “Einstein had alienated himself > > from the larger Jewish community, but the times forced him to realize > > that his heritage was an inalienable part of who he was,” writes > > philosophy professor Gimbel in this look at Einstein's relationship > > to Judaism and his political activism. > > -- > > sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated > to the discussion of physics, news from the physics > community, and physics-related social issues. Einstein was brought up in the Catholic religion, not the Jewish religion.