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- 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 to…
- We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to…
- A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions…
- The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and…
- When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
- As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad…
- Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
- Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.
- A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.
- As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern…
- Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.
- Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.
- The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common…
- There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies…
- Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel…
- At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.
- Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third…
- During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
- For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which…
- It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.
- Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the…
- The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder…
- The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation,…
- In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have…
More Jews Quotes
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable… — Mikhail Bakunin
- As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot… — Roseanne Barr
- I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust. — Roseanne Barr
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. — Theodor Adorno
- Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel. — Conrad Black
- That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same… — William Blake