Must Read: Future Tense – Prologue Sub-title: FUTURE TENSE: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND ISRAEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Author: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks It was the Holocaust survivors who taught me. I have read hundreds of books about the Shoa. I made a television programme from Auschwitz. To this day I cannot begin to imagine what they […]
Read more[This is not only a MUST READ but recommended as a MUST OWN; authored by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the subtitle is: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century. Earlier we had featured excerpts from one chapter, the post is titled Why the Jews? It is downloadable as ebook/kindle book from amazon.com. We will feature […]
Read more1 Kislev Waging War Against Canaan In 2009, when Israel went into Gaza and killed a lot of people, I was discussing religion with one of my friends, and he said that in the Torah, God told us to go out and murder people that we don’t like. The verse he quoted was in Deuteronomy about […]
Read moreIt’s not the weather that has been the topic of conversation lately, but the much kidded about Mayan calendar. While no one is seriously paying attention, it is discussed casually in connection with previous doomsday prophecies that some people say they don’t believe but take precautions anyway (by stocking up on supplies), “just in case”. […]
Read more[Where Judaism Differed by Abba Hillel Silver was first published in 1956; there was a 1972 edition; unfortunately, there is no ebook version that is downloadable for kindle or nook. There are used paperback copies listed at amazon.com for $3.24 (1972) and $2.65 (1956) and one new copy for $50! Since this book is not […]
Read more[The concluding chapter of Abba Hillel Silver’s MUST READ book for this week. Reformatting and highlights ours.] DIFFERENCES AND UNDERLYING UNITY We have dwelt on the great new insights of Judaism which are easily recognizable at all stages of its development and which gave it a distinctive stamp and character: that God is One— Spiritual […]
Read more[This is the first chapter of the book by Abba Hillel Silver titled One and the Same. Reformatting and highlights ours.] When we speak of Judaism, we are dealing with a religion some 35 centuries old, covering nearly 2/3 of the recorded history of mankind. Judaism experienced many changes and modifications through its long history—changes induced […]
Read more[The complete title of this book by Amy-Jill Levine is: The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. The author is another Jewish writer who endeavors to bridge the gap, the chasm between Jews and Christians. This book is downloadable from amazon.com as an ebook, readable on the free kindle app.] Excerpts […]
Read more[Aside from the metaphor of a “bridge” between Judaism and Christianity (Jesus – the Bridge between Judeo-Christian Values), Rabbi Schmuley Boteach awakens us to the symbolism of a “hyphen” that has for so long been used in the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as though the two different major religions could actually attach to one another. For sure, it is […]
Read more[This is from the concluding chapters of Rabbi Schmuley’s KOSHER JESUS, where he presents Jesus as “a Bridge between Religions” and specifically the 2 religions reflected in the Christian Bible: Judaism from the Old Testament, and Christiantiy from the New Testament. Here are excerpts from Chapters 38 -39. While it is surprising to discover this […]
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