"Who killed Jesus?"

[This is from Rabbi Schmuley Boteach’s Kosher Jesus.  Please check out previous posts from this MUST READ/MUST OWN resource; we’re sharing excerpts. In this chapter, Rabbi explains the roots of antisemitism and guess how big an influence is the Christian Scriptures’ depiction of the Jews who have been labeled ‘Christ-killers.’ . Reformatting and highlights added.—Admin1.]     Chapter […]

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Exodus/Shemoth 2 – "A sojourner have I become in a foreign land."

[Translation w/commentary is by EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and REF/Richard Elliott Friedman.  A reminder about the commentary from  P&H/Pentateuch and Haftorah, ed. Dr. J.H.Hertz; this resource book is as invaluable as the others; however, the commentators often go beyond what is stated in the text, making presumptions and logical conclusions.  It is […]

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"Superstar" – Confessions of an Idolater

[We are into the Resurrection Season so here’s a resurrected post first published in 2012. —Admin1.] ——————————–   JCS – “Jesus Christ Superstar”   Andrew Lloyd Webber is such a musical genius whose contribution to musical theater includes Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and two biblically-based musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat […]

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