Afraid? Here Are the Facts · Book 2
What About Judaism and Israel?
What Jews Themselves Believe About the Land
The faith, the people and the country are not the same thing. This book separates Judaism, the Jewish people and the State of Israel, and lets Jewish voices and sources explain what Jews themselves believe about the land.
- Author
- Helen Ots
- Status
- In research
- Formats
- Paperback, ebook, and audiobook narrated by Helen Ots
- Publisher
- Kodu Press, Brooklyn, NY
- Scripture
- Quoted from the ESV
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What’s inside
- Three words we mix upJudaism, Jewish, Israel, and Zionist.
- What Jewish law isHalakha, the closest parallel to sharia.
- How Israel is governedSecular law, with marriage and divorce left to religious courts.
- Marriage and divorce in IsraelWhy there is no civil marriage, and the debate inside Israel.
- Christians and IsraelWhat different Christian traditions believe, and why.
- Seeing our neighborsTruth in love toward Jewish and Israeli people in our lives.
Woven through this book, as through the whole series, is When Faith Becomes a Weapon. Here that means religious nationalism on every side of the land question, and how antisemitism has been used for power.
References
Every claim in this book is sourced. When the book is published, the full reference list will be posted on this page, chapter by chapter, so audiobook listeners can check every source too.
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