[cyborg]

Jesus was a jew, his twelve disciples were Jews, his enemies were Jews.. so what is the issue? Up till about Acts 15, it was all in the Jewish family. What is this rabbi trying to say? And why when a Jesus movie tries to portray Jesus in a more realistic historical light, the rabbis come out of the woodwork? Was anyone protesting Last Temptation of Christ? Nah.

A good Jewish historian to read Alfred Edersheim, actually one more, Josephus. This is such a non-issue. Mel Gibson apparently as a conservative makes enemies everywhere he goes.

[Pharmboy]

Both of you make excellent points. Thanks for your comments.

I will also check out the link the p*ssed off mollusk has provided.

[mvpel]

I think the concern is that when people get riled up about the Jews, we tend to get beaten up and killed, as demonstrated over the centuries. We already have a million frothing fundamentalist Muslims wanting to avenge themselves on us, we don't need a bunch of cranky Christians added to that list.

But I agree, the rabbi should have kept his mouth shut at least until the movie was released.

[VOA]

Was anyone protesting Last Temptation of Christ? Nah.

It was a big deal when students/citizens tried to keep the film out of the Student Union
at Oklahoma State University...while the Union was also the site of prayer breakfasts.

Believe it or not, it made the national news...

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

His twelve disciples were not all Jews my friend, though I get your point.