Word: judeo-christian
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...ceremonies were part of a growing U.S. spiritual movement: Goddess worship, the effort to create a female-centered focus for spiritual expression. Most participants are women who seek a deity other than God the Father, and a faith less patriarchal than the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to offer. Adherents claim the movement involves as many as 100,000 U.S. women...
Judaism is different from Christianity, and a hyphen does not make that difference vanish. No one unschooled in Jewish tradition--not Judeo-Christian tradition--can be an authority on Jewish law. I have a guess as to how many years Webb and DeGiorgio have studied Jewish law, but it is in round numbers. Very round...
...here we approach the root of the problem. Note Webb and DeGiogio's statement that "Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which our society and many others are based." Indeed, Hillel does work within--and add to--the Jewish tradition. But Hillel is not a Judeo-Christian organization. It is a Jewish organization. There is a difference...
When Webb and DeGiorgio declare that our society is based on Judeo-Christian tradition, they really mean that our society is based upon Christian tradition, which appropriated Jewish sources and overlayed them with new, often alien, interpretations. Their citation of the "Old Testament" as a central Jewish text is a case in point. Give a Jewish book a Christian name and a Christian interpretation, and the result is--Christianity...
...administrators. We understand, as AALARM's Jewish members are quick to point out, that the Hillel has been subverted by a radical faction which follows a political agenda while ignoring the true spirit of the Jewish faith. We hope this faction will clarify its position--is it against the Judeo-Christian ethos or just acting as another P.C. front group against AALARM? E. Adam Webb '93 Kenneth DeGiorgio '93 Co-Presidents, AALARM