Last week, the writer, activist, and Baptist minister Luke Moon arrived at the Bnai Yeshurun synagogue in the Orthodox Jewish enclave of Teaneck, New Jersey for the second time. The first was in April, when he came to stand in solidarity with the congregants when the synagogue was surrounded by a mob of hostile protesters. The second was to speak with two rabbis: Jacob J. Schacter, a distinguished talmudic scholar and historian, and Elie Mischel, who is active in fostering Jewish-Christian relations. The three discussed the limits and possibilities of cooperation and mutual understanding between devout Jews and Christians and why Jews shouldn’t be suspicious of evangelical solidarity.
Moon also tells of his own discovery of Judaism, and sums up the Jewish dilemma thus: “There is this long history . . . of the expectation for the Jews to be like everybody else. And both the Bible and history tell me that the Jews are not like everybody else.” (Video, 59 minutes.)
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