Jewish conversationsDec 16, 2022

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.

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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.
Dec 16, 2022 at 7:11pmWeb