The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it… — 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
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
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked. — David Novak Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted… — 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… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
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
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries… — 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
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
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
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
Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us. — David Novak Copy Share Image
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception… — David Novak Copy Share Image
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences. — David Novak Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end,… — David Novak Copy Share Image
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a… — 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… — 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
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
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. — 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
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human… — 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
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or… — 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 theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged… — David Novak Copy Share Image
It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity. — 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
