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Lerner calls it "an approach that is passionately committed to the survival of the Jewish state but is equally strongly committed to making Israel a society that embodies in its daily practice, including in its dealing with Palestinians, the moral imperatives of the Torah...
...activity theologically distressing for a number of reasons. The most obvious of these is that such activity is explicitly prohibited by the Mosaic law. We would remind Gomes that, even according to the Christian division of that law into moral, civil and ceremonial precepts, the moral law of the Torah retains its divine authoritative force for Christian life. A minister in Gomes' owl sober Calvinistic tradition should be especially mindful of this fact...
Discovery Seminar: Fundamentals of Traditional Judaism--by Harold Ganz and Shlomo Shulman, Aish-Ha-Torah. H-R Hillel, 74 Mt. Auburn St., 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $20;$10 for students. For more information, call 493-5952. Monday...
...Well, my perspective is that if you look at Romans, chapters 9 to 11, you will see that we could not be Christians today were it not for the Jews, and we owe so much to them, to the Old Testament, the life of the Torah, the Prophets. They gave us the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The difference between us, when we're agreed about so much, is Christology. I'd want to say, well, I have been captivated by this person, Jesus Christ, the onus is upon me to share him with all people, Jews and other people...
Jewish tradition has reinterpreted many undesirable passages of biblical text. For example, the Torah enumerates many offenses that should incur capital punishment--among them eating bread on Passover or showing excessive disrespect to one's parents. Yet no Jewish community has carried out such executions in thousands of years. (Israeli law has no death penalty.) Today, Jewish legal scholars can argue that penalties for homosexuality should be similarly ignored...