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The problem is that the rabbis he respects were almost all murdered.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
But the search for a Roman reality behind the charges very much misses the point of these texts: they are the product of an ideology that represented the struggle against tyranny in terms of a struggle against the Jews.
David Nirenberg • Anti-Judaism
Blimey, it’s rare that someone just comes out with it: Antisemitism is a second-class racism.
David Baddiel • Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021
C’est aux chrétiens qu’il revint de sélectionner dans le code moral juif des morceaux de choix pour les transformer en commandements universels et les propager à travers le monde. En vérité, le christianisme s’est précisément scindé du judaïsme à ce propos. Alors que beaucoup de Juifs croient, aujourd’hui encore, que le « peuple élu » est plus proc
... See morePierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
The Sadducees insisted that only the written Torah was authoritative. The Pharisees affirmed that side by side with the written Torah there was a parallel revelation at Sinai of principles and categories with which humans could interpret, apply, and develop the Law. That body of revelation given over to humans was called the Torah Sheh-B’ Al Peh (t
... See moreIrving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Not wishing Israel to establish itself as the central address for world Jewry, the American Jewish Committee believed that the Eichmann trial should not be held in Israel; some of its members even met with Golda Meir to emphasize their displeasure at the prospect. Infuriating the Israeli officials, AJC leaders charged that trying Eichmann in Jerusa
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