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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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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…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries…
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral…
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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.…
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,…
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we…
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In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
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The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it…
— Frederic Farrar
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
— Abraham Cahan
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One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow…
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When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and…
— David Duke
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