All 8 Uses of
Judaism
in
The Perils of Indifference
- Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.†
Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
- And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war against the Jews that Hitler's armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the Allies.†
Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- And, nevertheless, his image in Jewish history — I must say it — his image in Jewish history is flawed.†
*Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
- And, nevertheless, his image in Jewish history — I must say it — his image in Jewish history is flawed.†
- Sixty years ago, its human cargo — maybe 1,000 Jews — was turned back to Nazi Germany.†
Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- And that happened after the Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps.†
Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
- Those non-Jews, those Christians, that we called the "Righteous Gentiles," whose selfless acts of heroism saved the honor of their faith.†
Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- And so, once again, I think of the young Jewish boy from the Carpathian Mountains.†
Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
Definition:
the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.