"Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively……" — David Novak
"Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them."
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55 Quotes by David Novak
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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…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
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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:…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
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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…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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