Judaism

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So, why don't Jews sacrifice lambs anymore?

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Why are Jews so well represented in Congress, yet we've never had a Jewish president?

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Yom Kipper or whatever that is is tomorrow. That's a Jewish holiday, right?

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What's the Jewish stance on the Apocrypha?

Why are so many comedians Jews?

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What's the Jewish stance on the Apocrypha?

It is utterly irrelevant to us.  We don't recognize it, use it, anything.  For that matter, there really isn't such a thing as Jewish Apocrypha.  Most of the Apocrypha was written well after the Jewish Canon was set; there wasn't as much of a discussion as there was in the Christian World.

But it has the Hannukah story in it, so why do you celebrate it if you don't recgonize the book that contains its story?

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Sorry about the bump, but Scott and I were talking about creation in another thread and he claimed that Jewish people, even the most Orthodox Jews, don't believe in a literal 6-Day-Creation and fall of man.

Is that true, my Jewish friends?

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Nice try Scott, but I want an actual Jew to chime in with his facts/opinions.

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Reform Jews do not accept a literal definition of the Creation account found in Genesis.

That's obvious, givin the orgins and ideals of Reform Judaism (ie: Scripture is irrelevent and you're a Jew as long as your mother is) but do Conservative and Orthodox Jews accept Genesis 1-11 as facts?

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Just how different are the Jewish texts and the "Old Testament"?