Dabru Emet—Speak the Truth

National Jewish Scholars Project

2000

A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity

[Introduction]

In recent years, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish and Christian relations. Throughout the nearly two millennia of Jewish exile, Christians have tended to characterize Judaism as a failed religion or, at best, a religion that prepared the way for, and is…

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National Jewish Scholars Project

The National Jewish Scholars Project was sponsored by the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, located in Baltimore. The organization published in September 2000 in the New York Times. The document, the title of which means “Speak the Truth,” discusses the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, and was signed by more than two hundred representatives of the Jewish community.

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