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3 days ago · The animus faced by Jewish students at some universities should certainly not be underestimated. Rabbi David Wolpe’s hair-raising account of his year at Harvard described the university as “an institution rife with antisemitism and anti-Zionism.”. This affirms that parents’ concerns about sending their children to certain campuses are real.
1 day ago · In the aftermath of World War II, professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary and founder of Christianity in Crisis Reinhold Niebuhr encouraged Christians to support Zionism on “humanitarian, ethical, and moral grounds” rather than on the Biblicist grounds that have animated much of American Christian Zionism in the early 21st century. 27 The historian Caitlin Carenen ...
1 day ago · American Catholics and Jews, who had come to America in larger numbers with waves of other immigrants in the late 19th century, realized the great potential of movies and popular culture. Though religious leaders regulated the kinds of entertainment believers could or could not partake in, they joined other Americans in embracing new trends in mass entertainment.
3 days ago · Stow, Kenneth R. Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy, 1555–1593. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977. Stow, Kenneth R. “Conversion, Christian Hebraism, and Hebrew Prayer in the Sixteenth Century.” Hebrew Union College Annual 47 (1976): 217–36. Stow, Kenneth R. “The Papacy and the Jews: Catholic Reformation and ...
3 days ago · They established a small seminary that they called Augsburg Seminarium in Marshall, Wisconsin, in 1869, the first Norwegian American Lutheran seminary. A pastor from Norway named August Weenaas (VAY-noace) was its first president and almost its entire faculty. In 1873, the Conference moved the seminary to Minneapolis.
1 day ago · The Jewish Educational Vision Forum is an initiative created in March 2023, supported by companies, education departments from different Latin American countries and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs of the State of Israel. This week an event was held that brought together educational leaders from 11 Latin American countries in Buenos Aires ...
2 days ago · The protests over the war in Gaza that roiled many college campuses in the United States this past May and June raised once again the ancient specter of anti-Semitism. This year’s version of the ...
