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A Remarkable Evening
A Remarkable Evening Jerry and I belong to a Christian/Jewish dialogue group that celebrated its 25th year last week, though we haven’t been in it that long. The discussion topic was not so celebratory: anti-semitism and how to destroy it. … Continue reading →
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Tagged 18th-century rabbis, admitting guilt, American Jewish Committee, anniversary celebration, anti-semitism, anti-semitism and me, anti-zionist demonstrators, anti-zionist placards, BCCC/AJC, Bucks County Christian Coalition, cafeteria-style dinner, changing the subject, Christian blinders, Christian clubbiness, Christian/Jewish dialogue, curing anti-semitism, exclusivity, experiencing anti-semitism, forbidden topics, Holocaust, Holocaust photos, Honorary Counsel General, Krista Bard, l’esprit de l’escalier, Let go and let God, Lithuania, Lithuanian and Jewish heritage, Lithuanian diplomat, Lithuanian heroes, Lithuanian memories, miracle, national guilt, new antisemitism, power of prayer, protesters, public insults, Second World War, spiritual abyss, Talmudic eminence, The Lord’s Prayer, the right answer, the Vilna Gaon
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Jews, Christians, and Jesus
Jews, Christians, and Jesus I’ve just finished a scholarly book whose conclusion left me head-spinningly dumbfounded. Since I’m supposed to be a philosophe by profession, I’m pretty used to scholarly books, bring some acquired insulation to the reading of them, … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient fratricide, anti-Judaism, anti-semitism, attraction to Jesus, “the Son of Man”, Babylonian exile, Bar Kochba, biblical history, biblical Israel, Christian/Jewish dialogue, Christian/Jewish parting of the ways, colloquial Hebrew, Council of Nicea, Daniel 7, Daniel Boyarin’s The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ, defamation, Emmanuel Levinas, fratricidal history, Hebrew language revival, history of Christianity, inter-religious dialougue, intercession for sin, Isaiah 53, Israel reborn, Israelite continuities, Jack Miles’s God: A Biography, Jesus as divine, Jewish continuities, Jewish origin of Christianity, Jewish/Christian reconcilement, Jews and Christians, Jews and Jesus, legendary figure, literary Hebrew, messianic expectations, new anti-Semitism, Nicene Creed, professional philosopher, promised land, rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinic scholars, Rav Tsair, religious persecution, revelation and religion, scholarly book, Second Temple's destruction, Suffering Servant, Talmudist of stature, The Covenant, the forgiveness of sin, the historical Jesus, the Holocaust, the Jesus movement, the Second Exile, vicarious expiation, vilification
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