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This December, #Christian #churches will sing songs and priests will talk about the #Bible. As they do so, a group of Jewish, Christian and Muslim #educators is calling on them to examine where antisemitic ideas might be lurking undetected - ‘To say that the meaning of sacred Scriptures are over for Jews, because Jesus has come, fuels a sense that there is no longer a reason for Jews to exist,’ said one scholar.

https://religionnews.com/2022/12/14/this-advent-churches-called-to-assess-worship-for-antisemitism/

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This Advent, churches urged to assess worship for inadvertent antisemitism

(RNS) — ‘To say that the meaning of sacred Scriptures are over for Jews, because Jesus has come, fuels a sense that there is no longer a reason for Jews to exist,’ said one scholar.

Religion News Service
Dec 16, 2022 at 7:09pmWeb
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On Wednesday (Dec. 14), the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations — a group of roughly 30 member institutions dedicated to mutual understanding between #Jews and #Christians — issued a public statement calling U.S. churches to confront the crisis of #antisemitism. “We implore all #churches to redouble their efforts to denounce antisemitism publicly as antithetical to the very essence of Christianity itself,” the statement said.
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This #interfaith group cites the blatant spread of antisemitic #conspiracy theories by pop culture icons and #politicians alike as reason for the statement.
“The United States is facing the greatest crisis of public antisemitism in a century,” the statement claims, warning that “we may be witnessing the normalization of antisemitism in American discourse, which recalls events that happened in Germany when the #Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.”

https://religionnews.com/2022/12/14/this-advent-churches-called-to-assess-worship-for-antisemitism/

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This Advent, churches urged to assess worship for inadvertent antisemitism

(RNS) — ‘To say that the meaning of sacred Scriptures are over for Jews, because Jesus has come, fuels a sense that there is no longer a reason for Jews to exist,’ said one scholar.

Religion News Service
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@JewishConversations I read the article and many comments, some of which are vile, antisemitic rants.

Let's hope there are Christian faith leaders who may be more receptive to the ideas put forth by the #CCJR, able to see past any of their own prejudices and long term beliefs that Jews belong on the dung heap of history.