Word: judaic
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This was one of the primary questions addressed at a symposium on the New England Holocaust Memorial yesterday at Faneuil Hall. Among the panelists were Associate Professor of Government Daniel J. Goldhagen '81; James E. Young, associate professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Margot Stern Strom, executive director of the educational non-profit organization Facing History and Ourselves; and Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
Ethiopian Orthodoxy is a curious amalgam of Judaic and Christian practices, African and European rituals. It is manifestly a man's religion: only males may enter the inner sanctuary where it is claimed Moses' Ark is hidden. No one knows anyone who has actually seen it, but the pilgrims are certain it is there. "They don't have to let people see it for us to believe it," says a gnarled elder. "That's the mystery." Women, he adds, are excluded because "God made the rules for mankind and women broke them...
Brown's work is emblazoned with a church imprimatur. And it will receive no quarrel from many Jewish religious scholars. From the beginning, says Judaic , studies professor Shaye J.D. Cohen of Brown University, the Jewish tradition "had no trouble accepting the simple story that Jews executed Jesus as a sinner and a criminal, even to the extent of ignoring the role of the Romans." In modern times, Jews have adopted more favorable opinions about Jesus, just as Christians have worked to eradicate lingering anti-Semitism. But Cohen considers revisionism about the trial "pointless" because Jews cannot reasonably expect Christians...
...that Stager had studied at the Hebrew University and that he had been favored in the assignment of sites to excavate by Israeli archaeological authorities who wouldn't have so favored him if he were anti-Semitic. Or, to quote Cross' strange characterization, Stager's "whole history is philo-Judaic...
Stager's whole history is philo-Judaic. Part of his graduate training was taken at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University. In his early years he was a beloved protege of Benjamin Mazar, the doyen of Israeli archaeologists. Stager was awarded one of he largest and richest of the pristine archaeological sites left in Israel by the Israeli Council on Archaeology. To pair Stager with Lowell is unconscionable, and Peretz should publicly apologize, or in any case repudiate the anti-Semitic interpretation generally and most plausibly given...