Eric J. Greenberg
By Eric J. Greenberg
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News Protestant-Jewish Summit To Address Mideast Policy
With relations between Jewish organizations and mainline Protestant churches arguably at their lowest point in nearly four decades, representatives of both communities are hoping to defuse the increasingly bitter feelings at a two-day interfaith summit in Washington, D.C., next week. The meeting, which for the first time will include both interfaith experts and Middle East…
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News Rabbis Improve Outreach to Interfaith Families, Survey Finds
With interfaith marriage a growing fact of life in the Jewish community, non-Orthodox rabbis are increasingly attempting to include non-Jewish relatives in life-cycle events, a new first-of-its-kind survey has found. The survey, titled “Rabbis and the Intermarried Family in the Jewish Community,” sponsored by the Jewish Outreach Institute, is based on interviews with 183 Conservative,…
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News Jewish Groups Scramble To Head Off Divestment Push
As the push to cut off investments in Israel gains momentum in Protestant circles, Jewish organizations and their allies on Capitol Hill are racing to neutralize the burgeoning divestment movement. This week, following a tense three-hour summit with upset Jewish communal officials, leaders of the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (USA), with 2.5 million members, said they…
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News Vatican Relations Deteriorating
The 18th-Century German nun whose violent, mystical visions of Jews were the source of several controversial scenes in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” is about to move a step closer to sainthood, despite strenuous objections raised by some Catholic and Jewish communal leaders. Some observers are seeing the Vatican’s scheduled October 3 beatification…
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News Presbyterians, Jewish Leaders Discuss Israel
In the face of mounting criticism of the Presbyterian Church (USA) controversial vote to withdraw selected investments from Israel, pro-Israel Presbyterian leaders met with Jewish officials to discuss how to neutralize the church action before the divestment process begins in March 2005. About 25 clergy and laypeople met at Auburn Theological Seminary in Manhattan, N.Y.,…
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News Gay Clergy See Revelations in Scripture
Episcopalian Bishop V. Gene Robinson has a special attachment to the biblical story of Exodus. Indeed, Robinson holds a Passover Seder every year to commemorate the liberation of the Hebrews — as well as his own liberation. “I have drawn such comfort from that story,” said Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal priest to ever…
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News Right-wing Militias Gain Troops After 9/11 Attacks
Right-wing militia groups in the United States have been quietly gaining members and increasing their paramilitary training programs in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a new study issued Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL report, titled “The Quiet Retooling of the Militia Movement,” contends that after a period…
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News Serving Up Justice
With Presbyterian and Jewish communal leaders preparing for a high-level meeting to address the church’s recent vote to divest from Israel, an unlikely candidate is offering his services as a mediator: Andrew Sparks, a messianic minister accused by critics of using deceptive tactics to attract Jews to his congregation. The religious leader of Congregation Avodat…
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