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Why are critics saying that the movie "The Passion" is anti-Semitic? Is this question still relevant?

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What is the geography of Eau Claire, Wisconsin? The geography of Eau Claire is characterized by several river (Chippewa, Eau Claire) and creek (Lowes, Otter, Sherman) valleys, a few lakes (Dells Pond, Half Moon, Hallie), a number of hills (Mt. Tom, Mt. Simon, Mt. Nemo, etc.) and ridges (Abbe Hill, etc.), and several areas of relatively flat land (Putnam Heights, East Hill (oddly enough, is pretty flat), "the Planets").

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Will you state two truths and 1 lie about yourself? Don't say which is the truth and which is the lie and I will try and guess. :) [1] I'm a Jew from Puerto Rico [2] Everyone who meets me thinks I'm lying when I tell them my age (they think I'm at most 10 years younger than I tell them I am...sometimes they don't even believe my driver's license) [3] I'm fabulously wealthy (who's looking for a handout?) (FINGERS OFF!)

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Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4, What does it say? 2. For the rural population data of Exercise 1 construct an ideograph. [from "Introduction to Probability and Statistics", 2nd ed., by Henry L. Alder and Edward B. Roessler of the U of Calif., Davis. pub. by W. H. Freeman & Co. of S.Fran. & London. ©1960, 1962 Lib. of Congress# 62-10143. ... in case anybody was curious :-) ]

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Does a Rabbi a vegetarian ..? Please reword your question so it contains a verb [besides modal or helping verbs].

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In our Lord's time, who was the priestly class found among? "In our Lord's time, who was the priestly class found among?" First, when asking questions about Judaism, using the epithet "our Lord" is not only off-putting, it is offensive. Jesus is not "our Lord" in Judaism. To answer the question I assume you were trying to ask (to wit: "In Jesus' time, who were the priests?"), the answer is the...

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If you break one of God's 10 commandments, are you doomed to hell? OK, Jew here, horning in on the Christian boards. (Tit for tat, I daresay, since Christians are constantly pretending to know all about Judaism whenever someone asks a question about it)... You may not like my response, and the really self-righteous supercessionist Christians here will really hate it, but I may as well give you a response from a Jewish perspective... ----- To start with,...

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What was the Frankist doctrine of purification through transgression? I'm no authority on false messiahs, but my understanding is that among the Frankists there was a school of thought that said that you could get closer to God through repentence, but you could get incrementally closer by repenting for greater sins... so if you were really wicked and then repented, you got closer to God than someone whose greatest sin was that they forgot to say a blessing...

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I went to church today. I am a Jew. Thoughts? My first thought is "Ah, a Jew trolling Jews." From your later remarks, perhaps you heard the music (I happen to like the tune of some hymns), or smelled the pork (pork chops fried in butter smell delicious, eventhough they're not even remotely kosher), or maybe you're so far removed from Judaism that you blame Judaism, instead of whatever has created that distance...but...

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What activities happen before and after rosh hashanah? I started out writing a big long response to this, but realized most of it is just duplication of what you can find in the Wikipedia article [[High Holidays]]. Best of luck.

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What is your favorite Kosher dish? Shaqshuqa, chamin, eggplant babaganush, chraime, and corn pizza, not all in the same meal, obviously! :-)

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Why does Judaism not acknowledge Jesus Christ the same way that Christianity does? The genealogies of Jesus were not presented as "proof" of his being Messiah until after he was dead, likely not until at least 45, possibly as long as 100 *years* after he was killed (assuming he really existed). That said, the notion that the Jews couldn't disprove his genealogy and thereby prove that Jesus wasn't the Messiah, at that point the question was utterly moot....

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What is "Misjna"? "Mishna" or "Mishnah", as the word is more often transliterated into English means "repetition", and refers to the sum of Jewish oral tradition, especially in reference to topics dealing with traditions regarding narrower or "more specific" interpretations and applications of the sometimes vague mandates found in Torah (the "Books of Moses",...

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Strictly speaking, if someone is said to be Jewish, does that refer to their religion or their nationality? It is important to understand, when approaching an answer to this question, that "nation" has not always had the meaning and connotations it has acquired in the past century. Because of the association with the word "nation" with "geopolitical entity", I will avoid its use in my response, preferring "ethnicity" or "people" in its stead. That...

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Why are critics saying that the movie "The Passion" is anti-Semitic? Actually, the people who should be yelling the loudest, IMHO, are Christians, since the movie has coöpted Christianity's founding moments, using a portrayal of unspeakable violence [not supported by any of the supposed source texts] as well as elements from post-Biblical [and horrifically anti-Jewish] texts in the creation of the movie, all the while its primary promotion machine has been...

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Why does Judaism not acknowledge Jesus Christ the same way that Christianity does? OutThere's answer is slightly inaccurate, in that the statement is made that the Jewish objection to Jesus: centers around one criterion: the Messiah will bring peace to Israel and defeat its enemies. Anyone who didn't or doesn't accomplish this must not be the Messiah. I would modify this by saying that, from a knowledge of...

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What is a kaddisj? "Kaddish" [as it's generally transliterated into English] is the name of four different prayers in the liturgy, "magnifying and sanctifying the great name of God": Chatzi Kaddish: The "Half Kaddish" is the "core" of the Kaddish. Kaddish Yatom: The "Mourners' (literally, actually, "Orphan's") Kaddish" is...

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