Min Jin Lee: Ithink our resilience in the light of so much oppression, so much difficulty. I think, when I think about the miracle of the Han, which is this whole idea that Korea was an incredibly poor country. And only in the past 40, 50 years, have you seen this rise, where ...
Well, because of the story of sin, because of the story of us turning away from him. When we lose those two dimensions, that Jesus is the priest of this offering on the cross, and this offering is made because of the sins of the entire world, not just one religion, one ethnicity, ...
Levenson responds: wait a minute. For Trinitarian Christians (the vast majority today and for most of Christianity’s history), JesusisGod in a fundamental sense; but for a Jew (or Muslim), to say that a man is God is an idolatry that drastically compromises God’s fundamental oneness and...
He also looks at notions of ethnicity, at what it meant to be a "Jew" at the time, and at aspects of the literary context: the use of tradition and variants, the fitting together of smaller units to form stories, and the function of commentary. Three chapters then address a broad ...
If the priest or the Levite could have been able to discern if the wounded man was a Jew, maybe they would have stopped to help, but in this case, they couldn’t. There were two primary ways to tell someone’s ethnicity, race or religion in that time and place: by their clot...
there is even an option to request the ethnicity to be written next to nationality on a Lithuanian passport, which people of the ethnic minorities often do (in total, more than half of Lithuania's citizens ask their ethnicity to be included in their passports). In the Lithuanian censae, pe...
He paints every single Jew on earth with the same brush. The outlandish charge is made that it was Israel and the Jewish consipiracy that organized the WTC attack. Given the fact that NYC has a proportionally larger Jewish population than any other US city, why would the ‘evil Zionists’...
A colleague with an East Indian heritage may be a vegetarian. Or an Orthodox Jew might only imbibe alcohol during religious ceremonies and not as personal enjoyment. Final thoughts It’s said that diversity is our strength. If this neoteric adage is correct, then you should celebrate all this...
If writing about something like ability, ethnicity, or gender feels more representative of your life experience, that can be an equally strong choice!You should think expansively about your options and about what really demonstrates your individuality, but the most important thing is to be ...
He was born in the Soviet Union where Jew-hatred was entrenched in society. Ad Feedback Khaykin’s grandparents survived the Holocaust. Other family members did not. Today he is grateful – and protective – of