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Ruth Rosen

Jewish and Christian Can it be

Wed, 01/19/2011 - 18:32 — GentleVic

You can't be Jews if you believe in Jesus. Just call yourself Christians! That is what people say because that is what they have heard. But why do they say someone can't be Jewish and Christian?


We're not talking about Jews who would prevent other Jews from belief in Jesus because (they think) disbelief in him is what separates Jews from gentiles. Nor are we talking about a segment of non-Jews who wouldn't want Jews in their particular church. Some Jews and gentiles, because of prejudice, say being Jewish and believing in Jesus

Is Proselytizing Bad for the Jews?

Wed, 11/10/2010 - 20:42 — GentleVic

The story is told of a man who emerges from the subway in a Jewish neighborhood. Amazed and perplexed to see people running past him in apparent terror, he grabs one of them and asks, "What's happening?" "Let me go," begs the other man, "there's a lion loose in the streets!" But the newcomer to the panic holds fast. "Tell me," he implores, "is this good or bad for us Jews?"


One smiles at the implausible situation described above but the rhetorical question illustrates how people tend to view things through

Jewish and Christian Can it be

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 14:31 — GentleVic

You can't be Jews if you believe in Jesus. Just call yourself Christians! That is what some people say because that is what they have heard. But why do they say someone can't be Jewish and Christian?


We're not talking about Jews who would prevent other Jews from belief in Jesus because (they think) disbelief in him is what separates Jews from gentiles. Nor are we talking about a segment of non-Jews who wouldn't want Jews in their particular church. Some Jews and gentiles, because of prejudice, say being Jewish and believing in Jesus

From apple trees you get apples and from Jews you get Jews…

Mon, 04/26/2010 - 12:57 — GentleVic

EVEN if they do believe in Jesus.


A child's first realization that someone does not understand him often causes much wonder and confusion. I remember that day so clearly; I was standing in the girl's bathroom at Coldwater Canyon Avenue Elementary School.


It was right after lunch and I was combing my hair. Janice Cohen was also combing her hair, with short, uneasy pulling motions. She was

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