Monthly Archives: June 2011

One of the signs that one has a nuanced view of a given group is familiarity with variation. For example, there are some people who think of all Orthodox Jews as Hasidic, and all Hasidic Jews as the same. Of … Continue reading →

Parashat HaShavua is the (Torah) passage of the week as linked to the Jewish calendar. Today’s posting is part of a planned series commenting on the Torah passage of the week, and/or on the related reading from the prophets (the … Continue reading →

I am grateful for the succinct comment I have been responding to in the past four postings.  My interlocutor summarized a certain brand of bold supersessionism with great power and succinctness.  And if you have been reading along, you know … Continue reading →

Continuing our series on a chilling comment (this is the next to last posting on that subject),  today I want to pick up with the first sentence of my interlocutor’s final paragraph which says this: “While Jewish believers may feel … Continue reading →

In this current series I am reflecting on a reader’s comment which begins with this statement: Jewish believers are not a distinct chosen people in a spiritual sense. Christ has come and God destroyed the temple two millennia ago. There … Continue reading →

This posting follows upon a previous one in which I reference a comment I recently received which I term “chilling.” I contend that this comment expresses a kind of cold-blooded, take it or leave it jettisoning of the Jewish people, locking … Continue reading →