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" Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. "

Meir Soloveichik

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" As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World. "

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" We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government. "

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" If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light. "

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" Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth. "

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" We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. "

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" Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God. "

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" Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. "

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" The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. "

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" Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief. "

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" Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not. "

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" Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. "

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" Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God. "

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" Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him. "

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" A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism. "

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" Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud. "

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" While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others. "

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" God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity. "

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" Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us. "

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" We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten. "

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" How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah. "

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" Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution. "

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" The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' "

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" For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. "

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" The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed. "

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" The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation. "

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" The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges. "

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" Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. "

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" Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. "

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