To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles… — David Novak Copy Share Image
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to… — David Novak Copy Share Image
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy… — David Novak Copy Share Image
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of… — David Novak Copy Share Image
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish… — David Novak Copy Share Image
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak Copy Share Image
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why… — David Novak Copy Share Image
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them. — David Novak Copy Share Image
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. — David Novak Copy Share Image
In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not… — David Novak Copy Share Image
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. — David Novak Copy Share Image
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
