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...Israel, ''is his work. He enjoys bringing these things together -- which is why he is still doing it. He doesn't need the money.'' Even if he does not watch movies himself, the Eisenberg story could easily inspire one. It would tell the tale of a penniless German Jew who lands in Japan during World War II, goes into business, builds a trading empire in Asia and becomes one of the world's richest men. In 1938, when Eisenberg was 17, his parents, two brothers and a sister left their home in Munich and fled to Shanghai, where a growing...
...self. Finally, Witherington notes that if he is wrong and Knohl's reading is right, it at least sets to rest the notion that the various gospel quotes attributed to Christ foreshadowing his death and Resurrection were textual retrojections put in his mouth by later believers - Jesus the Messianic Jew, as Knohl sees him, would have been familiar with the vocabulary for his own fate...
...novel, THE SHACK, that's become a surprise best seller. The guy, Mack, is returning to the shack where his youngest daughter was murdered three years earlier. God, or Papa, as she is known in the book, has invited Mack over to talk love, pain and more love. (The Jew is Jesus, and the Asian is the Holy Spirit.) The story becomes a standard guy-meets-God melodrama, heavy on the heartstrings and full of torrid and often turgid dialogue. The unorthodoxy of the representation of the Triune deity (Ellen DeGeneres also imagined the Almighty as a black woman...
...feel threatened by my bringing up this issue. Furthermore, I have received a stream of insulting and threatening emails calling me, among other things, an “anti-Semite,” a “pussy,” and a “mentally inferior black jew-hater.” Some called for my dismissal. It is difficult to stand up while everyone else is sitting down. One risks the hammer...
...Although Bruner, who described himself as a secular Jew, said he felt that Memorial Church should be open to non-Protestant services, others thought that opening the church would damage the sanctity of religion...