Bari Weiss Quotes
Despite the fact that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox hold the keys not just to Israel's Jewish sacred places, but to the life cycle events - conversions, weddings, divorces, burials - of the country's more than six million Jews.
Weiss, Bari. "Is Israel's Orthodox Monopoly Ending?" The New York Times, 2017.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. This was his observation after his first excommunications -- by his Jewish Congregation in Amsterdam.
Medved, a Jew, maintained that as America became more interested in Christianity, there would also be more interest in Judaism, and true Christianity—American Christianity—which would not be anti-Semitic as many earlier Christian movements had been. Most Jews disagreed preferring a strict separation of church and state. While it may be true that some Christian groups are favorably disposed to Jews, historically must American Christian groups have been supportive of anti-Semitic activities in the United States.
Similar formal opposition to Jewish parochial schools was more formally voiced later—see American Council for Judaism.
In 1856 Turkey and its Ottoman Empire was struggling with new ideas and attempts to reform before they were hopelessly engulfed by modernism. A set of reform laws were passed in February of 1856 which horrified the conservatives and traditionalists. But interestingly the orthodoxy of the Greek minority were unhappy with their legal elevation if it meant that all would be equal. The Minister’s description of opposition to the reforms was somewhat self-serving in that he opposed most of the reforms and wanted to maintain the traditional Islamic state.
Kennedy had never been at the left wiing of the Democratic Party. His father, Joseph Kennedy, was known to all Irish Catholic politicans and disliked by most. He had supported big finance and business and was no great friend of labor. He was fired by FDR for publicly supporting Hitler before WWII and urging non support of England. He badmouthed FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt--Democratic icons. President Truman had to be stopped by a Secret Service agent from throwing the elder Kennedy out the window of a Boston hotel. He was a nasty man who threw his money around. But Senator Kennedy himself had never said a word criticizing Joeseph McCarthy or comdemning McCarthism and his other exceses leaving the criticism to other Democrats and even Republicans. (His silence was at the advice of his father.) Ribicoff a strong liberal knew Kennedy well and felt that Kennedy would not be constrained by his father's views, and that Kennedy was a true liberal at heart and would demonstrate that if elected President.
“Goyim” is the Hebrew and Yiddish word for non-Jews. In early Christianity, all Christians were Jews. Christianity was a new form of Judaism. The Last Supper was the Jewish Passover which was observed by all the early Christians who followed all the Jewish laws. Even goyim who wanted to convert to Christianity in the early days were converting to Judiasm and following the teachings of the famous Rabbi, Jesus. Later, St.Paul, allowed some goyim conversion without maintaining the Jewish dietary laws and without males having to be circumcised. The two religions split thereafter, but for many Jews of the time, especially the followers of Jesus, one of the Jewish obligations was to bring light to the goyim. The Cardinal was born of Jewish parents and converted, but just as the disciples of Christ considered themselves Jews so always did Lustiger.
He was one of the few Christians who were then aware of and commented upon the new Reform Judaism—a new Americanized form of Judaism that was then developing. America and its separation of church and state had become a fertile environment for the creation and development of new religions (Mormons, Christian Scientists) and new offshoots of existing religions (Pentecostals, Reform Jews). The Reform Judaism, which many orthodox Jews do not even consider it a legitimate form of Judaism, became, in less than a century the most popular form of Judaism for American Jews.
Bari Weiss is an American opinion writer and editor. From 2013 until 2017, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal. From 2017 to 2020, she was an op-ed staff editor and writer about culture and politics at The New York Times.
