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• The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
• Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to…
• We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission…
• A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries…
• Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
• Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
• The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…
• A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of…
• The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral…
• 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…
• 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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