"Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by……" — David Novak
"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 of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel."
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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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More Acquisition Quotes
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
— Robert Bunsen
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -…
— Peter Drucker
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
— William James
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as…
— William James
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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