John Henry Newman’s Anglican Views on Judaism

The scant scholarship associated with Newman’s Anglican views about Judaism has focused on his negative rhetoric against Judaism and portrayed him as anti-Semitic. His Anglican writings, however, applied terms associated with Judaism in a typological sense to the political and religious realities of his day, primarily to support his apologetic agenda and to highlight threats to the Church of England. Simultaneously, he stressed the positive characteristics of Judaism, illustrated the continuity between Judaism and Christianity, and pointed out that the religious system of Judaism was divinely inspired and contained worthy examples for Christian living

Menorah Review (No. 20, Fall, 1990)

Abba Hillel Silver, The Holocaust and American Politics: 1943-1944 -- Different Jews - One Judaism -- Book Briefing -- Rescuing Jews During the Holocaust -- Balancing -- Text and Context: The Case of American Judaism -- Book Briefing

Judaism: An Introduction for Christians

Reviewed Book: Judaism: An Introduction for Christians. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1987

Rejoicing Against Judaism In Handel\u27s \u27Messiah\u27 (George Frideric Handel)

Scholars have too little investigated questions of religious meaning in Handel\u27s Messiah, particularly the work\u27s manifest theological anti-Judaism. Previously unknown historical sources for the work\u27s libretto compiled and arranged by Charles Jennens (1700–73) reveal the text\u27s implicit designs against Jewish religion. Handel\u27s musical setting powerfully underscores these tendencies of Jennens\u27s libretto and adds to them, reaching a euphoric climax in the Hallelujah chorus. Within its arrangement of juxtaposed Old Testament prophecies and their New Testament fulfillment and with its matching musical styles, Handel\u27s Messiah could hardly have expressed more powerfully its rejoicing against Judaism than by having the ferocious tenor aria “THOU [Jesus] shalt break THEM [the Jews] with a rod of iron” answered by the chorus “Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” The aria is a setting of Psalm 2:9, a passage that was generally and unquestioningly believed among Christians in Handel\u27s day to have foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in the year 70. This horrible event was construed as a divine punishment of Judaism for its failure to accept Jesus as God\u27s promised messiah. The Hallelujah chorus apparently sees cause for rejoicing in such vengeance. Further, this chorus quotes the melodies of several hymns whose texts concern the depiction in Matthew 25 of acceptance by a bridegroom of five wise virgins and his rejection of five foolish virgins. This parable was taken to symbolize the welcoming of Ecclesia, Christianity and Jesus as the messiah, and the rejection of Synagoga and Judaism. In 18th-century England most Christians fervently believed that a choice between Judaism and Christianity was a choice between eternal damnation and eternal salvation. This would have represented motivation indeed for Messiah to project Christian theological contempt for its sibling religion

The messiah: developments in earliest Judaism and Christianity

Reviewed Book: Charlesworth, James H. The messiah: developments in earliest Judaism and Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992

The moral core of Judaism and Christianity: reclaiming the revolution

Reviewed Book: Maguire, Daniel C. The moral Core of Judaism and Christianity: reclaiming the revolution. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993

The Katz-Francis scale of attitude toward Judaism : internal consistency reliability and construct validity among female undergraduate students in Israel

The Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism was developed to extend to the Jewish community a growing body of international research concerned to map the correlates, antecedents, and consequences of individual differences in attitude toward religion as assessed by the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism were supported by data provided by 284 Hebrew-speaking female undergraduate students attending Bar-Ilan University. This instrument is commended for application in further research

Menorah Review (No. 63, Summer/Fall, 2005)

Affirming Life -- Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and Christianity -- Beginnings Departures Endings -- Christians and Israel -- Judaism and Superstitions -- Noteworthy Book

Menorah Review (No. 16, Spring, 1989)

Jewish Renewal -- Israel and the Modern Jew -- Looking for God in Conservative Judaism -- The Meaning of Midrash -- Book Briefing

gender & Judaism: in three popular texts

gender & Judaism in A Serious Man [Coen Bros, 2009], An American Dream [Norman Mailer, 1965] and the Pericope Adulterae