ABSTRACT
In an address to the Chicago Ethical Society in November 1939, the leader of the Society, Dr Horace J. Bridges, shared with his audience the following episode, which occurred about a decade earlier:
When speaking in a synagogue in Detroit, I noticed the names of a number of famous Jews of ancient and modern times painted (if I remember rightly) on the inner side of the dome, which surmounted the building. The most conspicuous feature of this list to me was the absence from it of the name of Jesus. I later discussed this matter with a learned Rabbi who was my personal friend. He answered that of course the time would come when the name of Jesus would be given its proper place in such a list, but that public opinion among present-day Jews was not yet ripe for it. 1
