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After considering these cases of stalwart Jewish communities, the Reform or Conservative Jew surely thinks, "Is that how I want my religion and culture to survive?" What is called" my religion" here should be called "my grandparents' religion" by such a person. Reform Judaism itself is as much an evolution of the faith as Lubavichism. Quelling intermarriage, though, is not the most altruistic way of preserving all the various sects of Judaism...
...those rumnum brothers uhruhuhruhuhruh I can lift 400 pounds, let you know my wide range of things you know, and uh the inscription written on Jesus's head when he died was written in three languages, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, it said here lies the king of the Jews, Jesus was on the cross six hours, three hours in the day, three hours at night...The three is also for the Civil Rights workers. There are so many threes. Some might say three stooges or three musketeers, but that ain't nothing you know me, but three also stands...
...Whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, believers today tend to regard their faith as a received whole -- that is, as a belief system with most of the major theoretical issues long since resolved, in so far as they can be. No 20th century Christian, for example, would bother to start an argument about the divinity of Jesus, a subject that obsessed 4th century bishops. But as Armstrong reminds us, the world's three great monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- did not arrive where they are without impassioned debates and conflicts. She contends that Yahweh was originally a savage, partisan...
...when Israel declared its independence. I was nine years old. I remember my father coming to my bed and lying beside me in the dark. "When I was a boy, I was beaten in school in Russia and then in Poland for being a little Jew," he said. "You may still get beaten in school, but not for being a Jew. This is what the State of Israel is all about." In the darkness I could suddenly feel his tears. It was the only time in my life that my father cried in my presence...
...forget that even now there are still different sets of clocks at work in the Middle East. The real rift is no longer between Jew and Arab but rather between past-oriented and future-oriented people on both sides. I believe there is a good chance that the future will prevail over the past. Together the Israelis and the Palestinians are today sending a resounding message to every agonized corner of the earth: If we can compromise with each other and turn our backs to violence despite 100 years of sound and fury, is peace not possible between all deadly...