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Dabru Emet - A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity
Judaism and Christianity have had a long and tumultuous history, full of persecution and pogroms against Jews. However, since the holocaust, Christians have largely rethought the place of the Jewish people and have done an about face of their traditional anti-Semitism. This doesn't mean that anti-Semitism has disappeared, but one simply doesn't find a haven for it in the churches like it once was. Jews have taken notice. A scholarly group of Jews felt it was time for a thoughtful reply to these changes. The result is a document called Dabru Emet, which was published in major newspapers. Here are its main observations. You can click on the link and read the write up on each point:
Judaism and Christianity have had a long and tumultuous history, full of persecution and pogroms against Jews. However, since the holocaust, Christians have largely rethought the place of the Jewish people and have done an about face of their traditional anti-Semitism. This doesn't mean that anti-Semitism has disappeared, but one simply doesn't find a haven for it in the churches like it once was. Jews have taken notice. A scholarly group of Jews felt it was time for a thoughtful reply to these changes. The result is a document called Dabru Emet, which was published in major newspapers. Here are its main observations. You can click on the link and read the write up on each point:
- Jews and Christians worship the same God.
- Jews and Christians seek authority from the same book—the Bible—(what Jews call “Tanakh” and Christians call the “Old Testament”).
- Christians can respect the claim of the Jewish people upon the land of Israel.
- Jews and Christians accept the moral principles of Torah.
- Nazism was not a Christian phenomenon.
- The humanly irreconcilable difference between Jews and Christians will not be settled until God redeems the entire world as promised in Scripture.
- A new relationship between Jews and Christians will not weaken Jewish practice.
- Jews and Christians must work together for justice and peace.