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Hillel Coordinating Council--bogus Judaism. AALARM--authentic Judaism. Got that...
THERE ARE TWO basic ways to analyze what is or is not a tenet of Judaism or a Jewish value. One is to study traditional Jewish texts. The other is to see Judaism as the culture of a people, the Jews, and see what their values actually are. Either way, the idea that Webb and DeGiorgio could over-rule Hillel's Coordinating Council is ludicrous...
First, consider the textual method. In support of their contention that Hillel's opposing attacks on gays and lesbians violates Judaism, Webb and DeGiorgio invoke the "the Old Testament and the Talmud." (Imagine my surprise at discovering that E. Adam Webb was a learned Talmudic scholar. I didn't even know that he could read Aramaic...
...happens, the range of Jewish religious opinion on homosexuality is very broad. Some movements within Judaism, notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, not only accept homosexuality but also ordain gay men and lesbian women as rabbis...
...addition to a theological framework for the use of force, Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, offers moral rules for the conduct of combat. Early Muslim authorities vigorously opposed the mistreatment of children, women, diplomats and hostages and inveighed against poisoned weapons or abuse of natural resources (in enemy territory "do not hew down a date palm nor burn it . . ."). On those matters, and many others, Saddam Hussein is not much of a Muslim, whatever his claims...