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They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and ... - Google Books Resultby Paul F. Boller, Paul F. Boller, Jr., John George - 1990 - Reference - 192 pages This quotation is one of many fake quotes from the Talmud which anti-Semitic hate-mongers like Kansas evangelist Gerald Winrodhttp://books.google.com/books?id=NCOEYJ0q-DUC&pg=PA122 Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution - Page 699 by Richard S. Levy - Social Science - 2005 - 828 pages Antisemites who use the Talmud... although they try to present themselves as disinterested scholars or as "defenders" of non-Jews against (supposed) Jewish "depredations", the antisemites who...

JERUSALEM, SEPT. 29, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI worked a "subtle revolution" with regard to relations with Jews during his trip to Paris earlier this month, simply by quoting the Talmud, says an Israeli priest. Jesuit Father David Mark Neuhaus, the secretary-general of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic Vicariate in Israel, known also as the Association of St. James, explained this in an article posted on the Web site of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic Vicariate in Israel. Father Neuhaus also serves as the priest in charge of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community in Haifa. "We have become used to the friendly tone of papal statements...

In recent years, anti-Semites around the world stepped up their attempts at banning Jewish religious books. A number of criminal complaints has been filed alleging racist incitement, notably in Russia. Rabbis seem to recognize that side of our books, as during the Knesset debate on anti-racism law designed to ban the Kach Party, religious parties insisted that theological writings be excluded from the definition of racism. That, by the way, didn’t help Kahane who presented Israeli Supreme Court with abundant evidence that all his sayings are within the halacha; the court banned his party no matter what. No doubt, Jewish...

The one time in history when homosexual "marriage" was practiced was … during the days of Noah. And according to Satinover, that's what the "Babylonian Talmud" attributes as the final straw that led to the Flood. But, he said, the Talmud's writings reveal that "before the Flood people started to write marriage contracts between men, in other words, homosexual 'marriage,' which is more than homosexual activity – it's giving an official state stamp of approval, a sanctification … of homosexual partnership." In fact, he said, "the writings indicated that it wasn't even so much the 'straw that broke the camel's...

Madonna personifies celebrity. Google her name and you will get almost as many hits as "Jewish," meaning that she is roughly as famous as the religion she has come to admire. With other celebrities in tow, Madonna declared in Tel Aviv this week that she was an "ambassador for Judaism." Meanwhile, the head of a Kabbala-oriented yeshiva reacted: "It is a known fact in Kabbala that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity. That's why people of Hollywood, a place of iniquity and lasciviousness, are naturally attracted to the holiness of Kabbala." Is Madonna really "evil"? Or should we...

We'll no doubt see much discussion of this forthcoming book: Jesus in the Talmud. From Publishers' Weekly: Will Peter Schaefer's new book, Jesus in the Talmud (Mar.), be controversial? "I'm afraid so," Schaefer told RBL. "That's why I'm nervous." His editor at Princeton University Press, Brigitta van Rheinberg, laughed but agreed: "You think, oh, whoa, this is not going to go over well in certain circles." Schaefer, who heads up Princeton's Judaic studies program, has collected and analyzed all the passages in the Talmud that apparently refer to the founder of Christianity, texts that were previously censored from Talmud editions...

The TRUTH About the Holy Beautiful Ethical Great Talmud Interesting  Sites  True Quotes 'An Eye for an Eye' Literally? Not according to Holy Talmud FACTS!  What Is?  Talmud = Peace!  Ethics  More Samples "Receive - Embrace All Human Beings with Cheer and Joy." - Talmud --- "Do not do unto others that which you dislike." - Talmud How interesting it is that Haters from the Islamo Militant Propaganda Camp, that claim to have a 'beef' with Zionism only, mix the Old Lies on Talmud (already exposed) with their Political Agenda. 1) (Even if one disagrees with A. Sharon's Defense Policies),...

If today’s Catholic bishops lived during the Nuremberg trials, they would have condemned the execution of nine of the defendants – including Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Hans Frank. Kaltenbrunner was responsible for mass executions of civilians and prisoners of war as Heinrich Himmler’s chief SS lieutenant; Frank oversaw the Nazis’ numerous atrocities as the governor of occupied Poland. Such a presumptuous proposition seems plausible given two Vatican officials’ opposition to Saddam Hussein’s death sentence – and the Catholic Church’s moral revisionism concerning capital punishment. Iraq’s High Tribunal convicted Saddam of committing crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death on Nov....

At 451° Fahrenheit, paper ignites spontaneously. So Ray Bradbury wrote in his futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451. The main character in Fahrenheit 451 is Montag. Montag is a 'fireman'. But unlike the firemen we're used to, Montag's job is not to put out fires - it's to start them. Montag's job is to burn books. A hallmark of all repressive regimes is book burning. In May, 1933, the Nazi party decreed that any book "which acts subversively on our future or strikes at the root of German thought, the German home and the driving forces of our people..." was to be...

Vincent Laforet/The New York Times A daily Talmud class for commuters led by Rabbi Pesach Lerner, right. Every day, tens of thousands of yeshiva students sit hunched over dog-eared volumes of the Talmud, arguing the text in an ancient melody they punctuate with raised thumbs. But the about-to-be-completed 73-volume Schottenstein edition, the first full English version in half a century, is not intended for them, its editor, Rabbi Nosson Scherman, explained with Talmudic paradox. "They'll never study on their own if they use a crutch," he said, urging such students to wrestle with the Talmud's original mixture of Aramaic...

I ponder often the mystery of the Talmud never being cited by political thinkers today. After all, the scholars who wrote it were political wizards in navigating the treacherous governmental byways of their own time. They not only lived in peace with the rulers of Iraq and Iran (still called Babylon and Persia 1,500 years ago), they were granted enormous leeway to lead the indigenous Jewish population, fielding their own governor and court system. Most often I conclude that the authors of the Talmud signaled their own preference for the political sidelines when they wrote (Shabbat 11a): "If all the...

Questions for a Rabbi or Talmudic scholar In recent days there have been posts on the subject of how Judaism views Christianity.  My Christian teachers have taught me a number of interpretations that I accept because I trust my teachers.  However, that doesn't mean that they are right.  In fact one of the principle reasons I trust these particular teachers is that they stress over and over again that we are not to take them at their word, but we are strenuously instructed to research, study, and think for ourselves and pray about our questions in order that we might...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--The ancient rabbinic text is clear about the punishment for those who twisted sacred law and misled the people of Israel. Offenders would be stoned and then hung by their hands from two pieces of wood connected to form a "T." The Talmud once included this example from the Sanhedrin: "On the eve of Passover they hung Jesus of Nazareth," said the passage, which was censored in the 16th century to evade the wrath of Christians. "The herald went out before him for 40 days saying, 'Jesus goes forth to be stoned, because he has practiced...

If Gibson is an anti-Semite, so is the Talmud and so is the greatest Jewish sage of the past 1,000 years, Maimonides... Mel Gibson's forthcoming movie about the death of Jesus, "The Passion," has created an angry standoff between the filmmaker and Jewish critics who charge him with anti-Semitism. It's a controversy that will continue to affect relations between Christians and Jews unless some way to cool it can be found. One possible cooling agent is an honest look at how ancient Jewish sources portrayed the Crucifixion. According to those who have seen a rough cut, Gibson's film depicts the...

The fact that the Second Temple would be destroyed was undeniably known to the ancient rabbis. And the belief that the Messiah was to come to that temple was also held by most of them. In the Babylonia Talmud (tractate Nazir 32b) we read an interesting discussion about the Second Temple and its destruction. Rabbi Joseph says:Had I lived then, I would have spoken to them of what is written about the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord (sic) and that which points to the destruction. Granted that they (the rabbis of...

Gibson's controversial film coincides closely with ancient Jewish writings. According to those who have seen a rough cut, Gibson's film depicts the death of Christ as occurring at the hands of the Romans but at the instigation of Jewish leaders, the priests of the Jerusalem Temple. The Anti-Defamation League charges that this recklessly stirs anti-Jewish hatred and demands that the film be edited to eliminate any suggestion of Jewish deicide.

Israel's primary fortification - confidence in its just cause - has been dangerously undermined Tomorrow is the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, one of the least known yet most pertinent fast days on the Jewish calendar. Though the date itself is associated with a number of tragic events that occurred throughout Jewish history, there is one which stands out and whose relevance to Israel's current situation is particularly worthy of note. According to the rabbis of the Talmud (Ta'anit 28b), it was on the 17th of Tammuz that the walls around Jerusalem were first breached by the...

Posted on Sat, Jun. 07, 2003 Support for authenticity of book of Matthew comes from an unlikely place By NEIL ALTMAN Special to The Star Buried in ancient texts of Jewish historical works are fragments of evidence that appear to show the first book of the New Testament actually was written by one of Jesus' apostles. One of these texts also challenges a long-held assertion that no ancient text except the Bible mentions Jesus' birth. Taken together, the information lends support to the claims of some Christian scholars that Matthew actually wrote the Gospel bearing his name, a Gospel that...

God's road mapBen Shapiro (archive) May 21, 2003 | Print | Send It is easy to blame America for the lack of Palestinian-Israeli peace. Critics from the left argue that America is biased in favor of Israel. Critics from the right argue that America has not allowed Israel to end the Palestinian terrorist regime on its borders. It is easy to blame the Palestinians for the paucity of calm in the region. Palestinians incite their children to murder Jews. Palestinians encourage and celebrate homicide bombings. The Palestinian end goal is the destruction of the state of Israel. It is also...

The New York Times reported yesterday that what began on Tuesday "as a hunt for an ancient Jewish text at secret police headquarters [in Baghdad,] wound up unearthing a trove of Iraqi intelligence documents and maps relating to Israel as well as offers of sales of uranium and other nuclear material to Iraq." Among the finds by the U.S. MET Alpha soldiers - the "mobile exploitation team" that has been searching for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in Iraq for the past three months - were maps featuring terrorist strikes against Israel dating to 1991, another map of Israel highlighting...