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The Need for Healing The relationship between the Church (Christianity in general) and Jewish peo... more The Need for Healing The relationship between the Church (Christianity in general) and Jewish people has seldom been harmonious throughout the centuries. In fact, for a long time Jewish people were oppressed, persecuted, marginalized, and even killed by those who called themselves Christians. That left many scars and wounds in the Jewish memory. Jewish people are historically memory-oriented people. We build our identity on the key events in the past, starting with the promise to Abraham and including such events as the Exodus, the destruction of the First Temple, Dispersion, Maccabees, the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple, Masada, Crusades, Inquisition, pogroms, the Holocaust, and establishing of Israel as the state. All these and events like these are not just the Jewish “history” but also the Jewish “present,” being commemorated in feasts, fasts, and memorial days. The history of the Jewish people determines and impacts their present. Therefore, the wounds of the pa...

The Need for Healing The relationship between the Church (Christianity in general) and Jewish peo... more The Need for Healing The relationship between the Church (Christianity in general) and Jewish people has seldom been harmonious throughout the centuries. In fact, for a long time Jewish people were oppressed, persecuted, marginalized, and even killed by those who called themselves Christians. That left many scars and wounds in the Jewish memory. Jewish people are historically memory-oriented people. We build our identity on the key events in the past, starting with the promise to Abraham and including such events as the Exodus, the destruction of the First Temple, Dispersion, Maccabees, the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple, Masada, Crusades, Inquisition, pogroms, the Holocaust, and establishing of Israel as the state. All these and events like these are not just the Jewish “history” but also the Jewish “present,” being commemorated in feasts, fasts, and memorial days. The history of the Jewish people determines and impacts their present. Therefore, the wounds of the pa...