[heyheyhey]

"Rabbi Alvin Berkun had initially asked Bishop Donald W. Wuerl to put a rabbi in one Catholic high school, but Wuerl asked Berkun to find rabbis immediately for all of them."

[dsc]

"but remains a focus of concern among scholars"

Or rather, remains a cause of enuresis among bed-wetting leftist whackos.

Maybe this site could help:

http://www.enuresis.org.uk/

[RobbyS]

"People are just clueless about this," she said. "The kids in my classes are so young. So do I let them go on not knowing about this, or do I teach them the history of hate so they can understand it? If they don't understand the background, the fear is that it could happen again."

Could it be that the evidence the kids are presented is less than compelling. One has to reach back into the Middle Ages to show that a Passion play resultd in anti-Jewish actions. As for the role of the Jews historicallly, I am surprised that people have not pointed out that Paul was similiarly attacked by the Jewish leadership and was saved only because he was a Roman citizen. The Book of Acts devotes several chapters to this.

[waxhaw]

Nobody foresaw how huge Gibson's movie would become. Now those who are irrelevant to the gospel story and irrelevant to salvation are trying to find relevancy in the popularity of the movie and so "anti semitism" is once more hauled into the arena. The elite Jewish leadership had Jesus crucified because they feared His power. The common Jews worshiped Jesus because they recognized Him as the Christ. At the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 73 AD Josephus described "Christians" as the third largest sect in Israel. Those weren't gentile Christians in Israel; they were Jews who recognized Christ as the Messiah.... and most of them remembered Jesus's warning about "when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies..." and got out of town before the Romans torched the place and destroyed the Temple. Well before this time, of course, the Temple was also irrelevant to salvation and had been so since the resurrection of the Messiah.

[ASTM366]

The only thing "anti-semitic" about "The Passion of the Christ" is that Jewish religious leaders conspired to have a Galilean Rabbi crucified by the Romans.

Note - It is an undeniable FACT that Jewish leaders had Jesus crucified. Read Matthew Chapter 26 and 27 if you have any doubts. However, don't think you are "anti-semetic" if you think it, say it or write it. It was all part of God's perfect plan of redemption that His Son, Jesus, would be rejected by His people and die a criminal's death.

God could of have used any tribe of people to bring forth His Son, but he chose the Hebrews.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Rabbi Jason Edelstein

This might sound bigoted, but I can't take any Rabbi named "Jason" seriously. What kind of Jewish parent would name their kid after the traitorous High Priest who conspired with the Greeks to dedicate the Holy Temple to Zeus? What kind of Rabbi would allow himself to go by that name, rather than changing it or using his Hebrew name (for example, a Rabbi in my neighborhood growing up was named Mark by his secular parents. Upon becoming religious, he dropped the name of the Gospel writer for the name of Moshe-- author of the Torah).