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...promise that disturbs Israelis -about 70% of whom are nonobservant -is Begin's agreement to amend the "law of return," which makes Jews from any country eligible for Israeli citizenship. Conversions to Judaism will be considered legal only if they are done according to Halakha, meaning strict Orthodox tenets. The proposed change has already infuriated Conservative and Reform rabbis in the U.S.; marriages and divorces authorized by them would also be scrutinized more closely...
...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...
Shun Labels. Among the Messianic Jews, however, proselytizing is part of the faith. Exactly what that faith is, though, is confusing to the outsider. Although the Messianic Jews hold to orthodox Christian doctrines such as the deity of Christ, which Judaism considers idolatry, they often shun labels like "convert" or "Christian." Some retain Jewish traditions like Saturday worship and the wearing of skullcaps, or call their leaders "rabbis" and their meeting places "synagogues." To Jewish leaders such as Tanenbaum, they are simply Christian evangelists masquerading as Jews to gain more converts. In any case, since the late 1960s, perhaps...
Traditionally, the Catholic Church, like most branches of Christianity and Judaism, has taught that some sexual practices are intrinsically immoral-e.g., adultery and homosexual relations. The report considers this approach "woefully inadequate." Instead of following rules that ban certain types of sex, it says, Christians should decide for themselves whether specific situations are "conducive to creative growth and integration of the human person." To be moral, the committee argues, sex ought to follow seven basic "guidelines." It should be "self-liberating, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving and joyous." How these terms are to be applied...
...Italy's Jewish community, which will eventually open them to visitors. "We have long wanted them placed under our Jewish communities because they represent an extremely important period of Jewish history," says Rome's chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, "a transition period when Christianity was evolving out of Judaism...