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    "..there is considerable resistance among traditional Jews to the

    characterization of Judaism as a religion."? "In a modern context there is considerable resistance among traditional Jews to the characterization of Judaism as a religion." Rabbi Dr. Alan Unterman...
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    The first person to accuse the Nazis of killing people in Soviet style gas...

    ...vans, was a sci-fi writer.......? At the Nuremberg trials, it was stated that the first reference to the gas-vans was from a sci-fi author. "the mass extermination of people in gas vans was ascertained without reasonable doubt for the first time in the report of the Extraordinary State...
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    Christians - To build closer ties to Judaism, why don't you also...

    ...sacrifice a goat to Satan on Yom Kippor? Hasidic Jews believe the ram's horn is sounded on Rosh Hashanah for Satan, and a goat was (is) sacrificed on Yom Kippur for Satan. From the Zohar, the bible of the Kabbalah: "He (Satan) constantly stands above, recounting the sins of human beings and...
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    Christians - To build closer ties to Judaism, why don't you also...

    ...sacrifice a goat to Satan on Yom Kippor? Hasidic Jews believe the ram's horn is sounded on Rosh Hashanah for Satan, and a goat was (is) sacrificed on Yom Kippur for Satan. From the Zohar, the bible of the Kabbalah: "He (Satan) constantly stands above, recounting the sins of human beings and...
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    Are ex-Christians who criticise Xianity considered "self-hating" like Jews who...

    Are ex-Christians who criticise Xianity considered "self-hating" like Jews who... ...criticise Judaism or Israel are? Ann - Hey, like the new avatar. Yep my blog probably one of the most antisemitic on the web, but its 100% sourced
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    Are these rabbi right when they confess 'racism originated in the Torah

    (the most sacred writings in Judaism)'? Haartez (Israeli newspaper) December 7, 2010 Top rabbis move to forbid renting homes to Arabs, say 'racism originated in the Torah' "Racism originated in the Torah," said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. "The land of Israel is...
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    Are these rabbi right when they confess 'racism originated in the Torah

    (the most sacred writings in Judaism)'? Haartez (Israeli newspaper) December 7, 2010 Top rabbis move to forbid renting homes to Arabs, say 'racism originated in the Torah' "Racism originated in the Torah," said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. "The land of Israel is...
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    Is it unfair that Jews forbid male haemophiliacs from converting to Judaism?

    Haemophilia is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation, which is used to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken. If a male suffers from haemophilia; circumcision, a requirement of conversion could kill him. __________...
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    Jews - Why do you consider all non-Jewish women & female converts to Judaism as...

    Jews - Why do you consider all non-Jewish women & female converts to Judaism as... ..."harlots"? "We have learned by tradition that the term 'harlot' as designated in the Torah means any woman who is not a daughter of Israel (i.e., not born Jewish*), or a daughter of Israel who has had...
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    This rabbi writes, girls aged three "In the language of the halakhah

    they are fit for sexual intercourse"? "Although the three-year-old girl does not undergo any ritual introduction to her future role as a Jewish female, she is considered to be sexually a female from this age. Thus the laws restricting men and women from being alone together in the privacy of a...
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    Is there such thing as the "Jewish race" can you be jewish without practicing...

    "An atheist, anti-religious, Jew who was born of a Jewish mother would still be considered halakhically Jewish, and therefore accepted as such by his fellow Jews." - Page 11 “In a modern context there is considerable resistance among traditional Jews to the characterization of Judaism as a...
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    as judaism has such set rules and values as a practising jew is it ever

    The no touching your own penis, even when urinating rule is a harsh one. "A series of precautionary measures are laid down by the halakhah to prevent the possibility of masturbation. A man should not bring about a voluntary erection, think about sexual matters, sleep on his back, watch animals...
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    Christians - Why do you like the Pharisee Jew (ie most Jews), Jesus couldn't...

    ...stand them, nor could God? Hebrews 8:9 - http://bible.cc/hebrews/8-9.htm It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord...
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    How is Judaism just a religion, when even strictly religious Jews still...

    ...accept atheists as Jewish? "An atheist, anti-religious, Jew who was born of a Jewish mother would still be considered halakhically Jewish, and therefore accepted as such by his fellow Jews." Page 11: The Jews: Their Religious Beliefs & Practices (1999 Edition) Chapter: Some Basic Categories...
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    This Jew claims she was forced by her family to: "to sacrifice an

    infant" - How common is this in Judaism? Vicky Polin, now a campaigner against sexual and ritual abuse in Judaism ______________ Vicky Polin on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1989 "There would be rituals in which babies would be sacraficed... There were people who would grab babies in our family."...
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    Why would you bother converting to Judaism, when you & your offspring will always be

    Why would you bother converting to Judaism, when you & your offspring will always be considered inferior? From: Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish people - by Menachem Marc Kellner "Halevi (12th century Jewish mystic) meets the conversion by arguing that converts are indeed not the equals of...
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    views on god in judaism?

    A Jewish professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem writes: According to the cabbala, the universe is ruled not by one god but by several deities, of various characters and influences, emanated by a dim, distant First Cause. Omitting many details, one can summarize the system as follows...
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    What is ashkenazi orthodox judaism?

    Ashkenazi means German in old Hebrew. Become a Samtar, a form of Hasidism, which is haredi (Ultra-Orthodox Judaism), they're all Ashkenazi. How much fun does this look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMequ_T-4UQ&feature=related
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    If Judaism is NOT a proselytizing religion, then how did the first few Jews...

    A British Orthodox Jews writes: "Thus R. Moses of Coucy, a leading French rabbi of the thirteenth century, warns Jews to mend their ways, so that gentiles (non-Jews) will not be put off by their bad example since making converts is the purpose of Israel's exile." Page 7 The Jews (1999...
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    There was an interesting story on Christians and their lack of...

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rel_religious_literacy_poll
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