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...many of us, clergy are inextricably linked to religious teachings. But Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who in 1963 founded Humanistic Judaism, insisted that by studying Jewish history, culture and ethics, one could be moral and Jewish without believing in God. Wine's movement, lambasted as a fad by some Jewish leaders, is still strong, with 40,000 followers. He was killed in a taxi crash while on vacation in Morocco...
...Ines (Natalie Portman) decides not to eat the roast pork; it is not a dish she particularly cares for. The next thing she knows she is being tortured by the Inquisition on the grounds that her dietary preference is dictated not by taste but by a secret adherence to Judaism. She is then jailed (for 15 years), impregnated by her chief tormentor, Father Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) and driven mad, largely because her child is taken from...
...your land, you shall not do him wrong... [he] shall be as native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Progressive Evangelical leader Jim Wallis refers to this as "the Levitical immigration policy." It reaches deep into Judaism's Exodus saga for its justification. The Israelites were (legal) immigrants in Egypt, but the Egyptians persecuted them when their numbers seemed too threatening; God brought down the plagues. Thus the verse is a warning to Jews never to turn into the Egyptians; a role Salvatierra and her colleagues feel Americans...
These comments, Stern said, were not part of her speech. “The reporter was extremely annoyed by the approach of the Institute,” she said. “She wanted to be able to say something nasty about including Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the talk...
Neusner, in his Rhinebeck, N.Y., home, is equally unfazed by the Pope's repurposing of his argument. "You can't expect him to get circumcised," he says. "He's still a Christian, and I'm still a practitioner of Judaism. But the two positions can consider the same text and identify where they converge and where they part company. I think it's terrific...