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Fast Forward One In 10 Christians Say Their Pastors Said Negative Things About Jews
(JTA) — Thirty-nine percent of American Christians who attend church have heard their clergy speak out about Jews, and 9 percent have heard them say something negative. That’s according to a new study published Friday by the Pew Research Center on religion and public life. The survey found that American Jews were ambivalent toward the…
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Fast Forward Did Posting Pompeo’s ‘Christian’ Speech Muddy Line Between Church And State?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech, “Being a Christian Leader,” delivered to the American Association of Christian Counselors, appeared to go over well in the room. Video from the event, recorded October 11 in Nashville, showed the secretary stopping several times to field applause. Pompeo quoted scripture, said he keeps a bible at his desk…
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Fast Forward State Department Site Posts Pompeo ‘Christian Leadership’ Speech
The separation of Church and State is widely accepted as enshrined in our constitution. But that didn’t stop the State Department from posting a 24-minute video of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent speech on “Christian leadership.” In the clip, which was posted alongside a transcript on the department’s homepage October 14, Pompeo addresses the…
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Opinion The Idea That Christian Love For Jews Is About Rapture Is A Paranoid Conspiracy Theory
'There is simply no evidence suggesting that large numbers of Christians harbor a terrifying desire for Jesus to slaughter innocent people'
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Fast Forward Canadian Orthodox Priest Fired For Honoring Israel In Sermon
A Christian Orthodox priest in Nova Scotia, Canada was forced to retire after honoring Judaism and Israel in his sermon, The Canadian Jewish News reported. Vladimir Tobin, the head priest of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Church in Halifax, was told last month in a letter from the archbishop that he must leave the church following the…
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Fast Forward Americans Love Jews But Are Clueless About Judaism, Survey Finds
(JTA) — U.S. Jews know more about religion in general than their non-Jewish neighbors, a new survey shows. Americans who are not Jewish, meanwhile, don’t know a lot about Judaism. But they like Jews more than any other religious group. And they think there are more Jews in the country than there actually are. The…
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Culture Q & A: How Do You Write A History Of The Bible?
The Bible may be the most-recognized book in the world, but its origins remain obscure. We can’t say with certainty who wrote much of it, when the bulk of it was composed or even where. But we now have a handy primer to the most significant theories about those questions in John Barton’s “The History…
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Fast Forward Christian Woman Who Dressed Orthodox, Tried To Convert Jewish Neighbors Lashes Out At Critics
One half of the Christian couple who dressed and acted like Orthodox Jews and tried to convert their neighbors wrote a Facebook post this week defending their actions and lambasting the “fake stories” that have brought “shame to Judaism.” Rivkah Joy Weber, who went by the name Rivkah Costello while living in the heavily-Jewish Chicago…
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