*

The End Times of Judaism

"Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people"

Judaism= The world's first human breeding program to create a separate master race called "Jews".

Perhaps remembered from the ancient Brahmin past and relearned in Egypt from seeing how Egypt was ruled by interbreeding Egyptian aristocratic families creating the lineage of Pharaohs, Hebrew/Israelites set off to create themselves a "holy seed" (Ezra 9:2) separate from the rest of humanity.

But spiritual consciousness cannot be bred.

This is the basic reason why Judaism faces its End Times in the New Millennium. The "Master Race" project has fallen in total disgrace in the intellectual life of humanity after Hitler borrowed the idea from Jews and showed the world what happens when human beings take this racist concept and give it the stamp of official government policy. Modern Israel shows the same racist propensity by banning Palestinians (Gentiles) in their own homeland from equal participation in government policies and Israeli life. Jews will claim right and left that Judaism is not a racist ideology but the truth is Judaism is most definitely racist at its core belief system. It is only in modern times that the Jewish racial policy of forbidding intermarriage with Gentiles has been seriously breached. The more Jews intermarry with Gentiles the weaker the religion of Judaism becomes as racial purity was always at the heart of Jewish theology, racial prejudice against Goyim gave Judaism its ideological mandate for territorial aggression--Goyim in the Holy Land weren't the Chosen of God--the land that was their's the Jewish tribal god said Jews could take and have for themselves.

The biological argument against racial purity and xenophobia

"Traditionally, the Plain People — Amish and Mennonite descendants of 18th-century German and Swiss Anabaptists — have shunned many modern inventions and married among themselves to protect their faith-driven way of life. The Amish, like other close ethnic groups around the world, have high rates of inherited disorders because of the emergence of recessive genes passed through generations. Distantly related members marry and increase the odds of being unknowing carriers of the disorders."

Read Jews instead of Amish in the statement above or any self-chosen inbreeding genetic group of peoples.

"Jews have suffered so long because they bear the burden of God in history. Anti-Semitism is symptomatic of an animus against God, an animus deeply lodged in every person."

So goes the Catholic apologetic to Jews to explain the Holocaust and why Gentiles in the past have so very often reacted violently towards Judaism and towards Jews themselves. But Jews do not own ethnic cleansing Holocausts. Jews are not the only people in the world to suffer mightily from Holocausts but Jews are the only people in the world making an industry off their Holocaust, the only ones using their Holocaust as rationale to bring another Holocaust to Palestinians.

I have worked closely for years with a local Native American tribe here in California where the Tribal Council Chairman can remember himself as a boy running for his life because white ranchers wanted to kill him, there being a bounty on Indians killed still on the books of California law up until the late 1930's or thereabouts. The tribe I worked with is composed of descendents of remnants of several now extinct tribes. These people lost EVERYTHING! not only their lives and their land but their language, their culture, their artifacts, everything that identified them as a people was taken away in what was for them a far far greater Holocaust because unlike Jews, they had no back-up cultural reserves in which to renew themselves.

And the way they were killed? Is death to innocent women, children and men by being hacked to death, shot to death, women raped and then killed, children stuffed into reed baskets and drowned in our rivers, unwanted Indian refugees from concentration camps taken out to sea and pushed overboard to drown, are Jewish deaths in the camps any worse? Tremendous numbers of human beings have suffered Holocausts. It gives none of them right to inflict Holocaust on someone else.

There is a tendency now in Christian circles to downplay the original impulse that set early Christian Jews apart from Pharisaic Jews. Yeishu-Jesus marks the beginning of a two thousand year old spiritual battle to 1) restore EL Elyon as God Most High where Judaism has posited their tribal god Yahweh as God Most High, and 2) to restore revelation, divine inspiration as seen in the Prophets as the authority of Scripture and not intellectual critique as seen in the Rabbis commentaries on the Torah. In the telling story of how EL Elyon supposedly wants to be known to the world as Yahweh, hundreds of years after the fall of Canaan's national power and during the great disruption of the Babylonian Exile priests and scribes of Judah pulled the wool over their fellow tribal believers eyes and memories of what had gone before. A new myth was created to replace the worship of EL as God Most High and the worship of Asherah, the Great Goddess as EL's wife and guaranteer of the Life of the land. Instead of the traditional role of Yahweh as an angelic Presence as the Son of God personally responsible as tribal god for the guidance of the Israelites within the Canaanite federation of tribal nations, the Jewish writers remade Yahweh into his Father, EL Elyon.

Children of a lesser God

Judaism, in falsely elevating and worshipping a lower god, is a fraudulent religion from the very beginning. The erasure of Canaanite EL Elyon's memory from the people constitutes deicide and it is for deicide of God Most High that Jews are being punished for seemingly eternally until Judaism either disappears as a viable religion and joins the other ancient primitive and dead religions. Or Jews themselves so completely revamp Judaism as to make it indestinguishable from Christianity. Christianity is actually the Jewish salvation of Judaism as it returns Judaism to its spiritual roots in revelatory guidance from God Most High instead of leading Jews by the doctrines of men.

The Passion of Christ is the Holy One of Heaven & Earth's violent memory of the deicide of EL Elyon, God Most High. In the Passion story Jesus Christ stands in for Yahweh and takes the punishment deserved for those who would kill the real God Most High and worship a lower god in the Father's place. The Jews never understand and neither do Pauline Christians who are themselves attached by Pauline doctrine which posits Christianity as a grafted branch onto the mainstem of Judaism with its worship of the Fraud of Israel. The antagonism of      Gentile nations and Christianity towards Judaism reflects the Christian charge of deicide only the deicide isn't of the mythical God-man Jesus Christ but the deicide of his Father, EL Elyon, God Most High. Only when Jews acknowledge this fraud in their religious past and follow Yeishu-Jesus' way out of the spiritually dead end of Judaism will they be spared from continuing persecution by the Gentile nations worshipping the true Father, EL Elyon, God Most High via the teachings of Yeishu-Jesus or via those of Mohammed's.

The "Al" part of Allah is EL, God Most High, which when the true character of EL Elyon is again known to all Muslims and the world via historical research, will work towards the same goal as desired by Jesus, i.e., establishment of the Kingdom of God in our hearts, mind and souls. Established in our hearts and minds it will in turn be established in our personal and community relationships with others as this is the necessary path to establishing the true Kingdom of God, the Realm of the Holy One of Heaven & Earth, the realm of peace and goodwill between all the peoples and nations of the world, not a one of them treated as outsider children in God's Holy Family. This goal is impossible for Judaism to accomplish because Judaism is based on inequality, on human Insider/Outsider dichotomies that do not exist in God's Creation where all human beings are created equal in God's love and guidance to spiritual maturity. How convenient that the tribal god of Israel, Yahweh, loves the Israelites more than any other people.

It is amazing how the world's first narcissistic and paranoid group mind religious cult has lasted into our modern times, still causing mischief with the Nations, and so few recognize Judaism for what it really is! Classic Cult doctrines and behavior patterns--paranoia of Outsiders, totalitarian mind control of cult members, absolute obedience to cult authorities, and lastly, the most telling sign, willingness to destroy the lives of innocents rather than question obedience unto death of the cult's religious doctrines. I ask Jews to consider this: Just what exactly is the difference between followers of Jim Jones and David Koresh and the suicide deaths and murders of Jonestown and Waco, and the followers of Moses at Masada and during the Middle Ages when Jews were willing to kill their own children in obedience to the Leader, to Moses and the Cult rather than save them. The Cult becomes more important than children's lives and that becomes the lasting condemnation of Judaism and all totalitarian religious systems.

When Judaism is shown to be just as fraudulently conceived and promoted as any modern cult phenemena, it behooves us all to expose it for what it is: a false religion as no true Creator divided humankind into loved and unloved catagories; even the foundational Genesis Creation story of Judaism admits this. As Jesus pointed out, no kingdom divided against itself shall stand. Judaism attempts to divide the Kingdom of God into Jewish insiders and controllers in their Messianic dream of Israel and Gentiles as outsiders and the ones controlled.

Israel is the grave of Zionist Judaism

Jerusalem is its tombstone

Zionist Judaism is based on fraud and one of the most fraudulent claims of Jews is to exclusive God-given rights to the land known as Palestine. Like the other central myths of Judaism, e.g., Moses and the Exodus story, the conquering of Canaan, the United Kingdoms of David and Solomon, the original story of Abraham being a "Hebrew" is totally bogus, nothing more than another tribal myth of origin, a myth as factual as the story of Adam and Eve and Noah and the Flood.

Scholarship refutes basic Zionist Judaism claims to Palestine yet Israeli Jews are using these myths as rationale for killing Palestinians who refuse to bow down to Israeli/U.S.A. domination. Thus the whole religion of Judaism is exposed as little more than tribal xenophobia and tribal narcissism expressed in religious languages, deities, legendary founders and religious motifs borrowed from more advanced neighboring civilizations, e.g., India, Canaan, Sumeria-Mesopotamia, Assyria, Persia, and Egypt primarily.

Judaism is the world's first xenophobic religious cult that set the model for totalitarian control of society by a priestly class.

The later totalitarian religious systems of Roman Catholicism and Islam modeled their religious control systems on the Jewish model. The power of Judaism to continue the fraud even into the 3rd Millennium is evidence of the power of religiously based politics to create endless warfare.

What's in the name "Israel"?

"Israel": meaning according to Hebrew, "He fights with EL" and this name says it all. No one is more powerful than God but a narcissistic group convinced themselves that they were, that they could indeed overthrow EL Elyon and substitute their tribal god Yahweh in EL's place.

The ruse has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of the Christian West for well over 2000 years but it cannot withstand modern historical research and critical analysis. These are the End Times of Zionism and the religious and moral authority of Judaism. Everything morally wrong with the doctrines of Judaism is clearly shown to the whole world in modern Israel.

Lack of Forgiveness

Unable to forgive marks the Jewish mindset. Because Judaism is based on a racist division of humanity into two groups, those special to God, Jews, and all the rest, Gentiles, to be considered less than Jews in God's eyes. To reinforce the racist element the religious literature of Judaism is filled with stories showing how God never forgets or forgives enemies of Jews. This maintains the division, especially as it warns Jews never to leave the cult because if they do they will not be forgiven.

The Israeli nuclear armaments whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu, found this out as Israelis kept him locked away for 19 years or so and still won't let him enjoy citizen's rights even though he's served his sentence. Any Jew who publicly criticizes Zionism or Israel receives several times the amount of rebuke by fellow Jews as would a Gentile. Like Christian forgiveness of sins, the African Bantu conception of "Obuntu" or forgiveness of past hatreds and crimes of hate through recognition that we are all one humanity, all of us a part of God, is lost on Israelis.

Similarly, the Jewish Holocaust is world's only holocaust memorial that refuses to ever forgive Gentiles, using this event as proof of ever-lurking Gentile "anti-Semitism" as Jews urge fellow Jews to "never forget".

Species Defense--the bio-social reason why the Jewish enterprise to create a separate Jewish race will always fail.

The real reason why Jews have suffered so much persecution throughout their cultic lifespan is most easily understood from both a bio-sociological p.o.v. Two human traits are at work here: One is the biological species defense mechanism that brings out utmost hostility against another human species or another human race competing with our species, our race. That's why there are no Neanderthals left and why in America, all traces of "Asian Caucasians" are gone.

Judaism's primary goal was to establish a separate race, actually a separate species, of human beings from the Goyim according to Jewish racial purity ideas found in the Talmud.

Gentiles, finding this out and seeing Jews in powerful social positions controlling Gentile lives, periodically react and react negatively to the unconscious threat to the species.

The second human trait seen in hostility towards Jews is seen in Gentile reaction to Jewish separation from Gentile society. Human societies overcome group barriers to social intercourse in a number of differing ways; wars, trade, nationalism, common religions, sex and food sharing. When you've got a distinct group within your social group that refuses to touch members of your social group, refuses to eat with members of your social group, refuses to let members of your social group marry their sons or daughters, and when you're the majority population and not well versed in civilized life, well, you've got a mixture for a time bomb of frustration and anger that periodically goes off. It's pretty simple biological group behavior really.

What Jews call "anti-Semitism" is the inevitable negative reaction Gentile groups will have to having a human group in their midst that is attempting to become a separate species of humanity, and not only separate but in control of political power over their non-Jewish neighbors whom their religion teaches them to consider less than human. Jewish religious rejection of common social bonding mechanisms means that Jews reject the biologically-based behavior patterns that human beings use to overcome group barriers in order to form larger "family" identities, the basis of state and nation building.

The End Times of Jewish myths of origin

Phantom Wanderers

Two archeologists say the escape from Egypt into Sinai seems highly unlikely.

By Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman

(Excerpted from "The Bible Unearthed," The Free Press, 2001)

"In the 13th century, Egypt was at the peak of its authority—the dominant power in the world. The Egyptian grip over Canaan was firm: Egyptian strongholds were built in various places in the country, and Egyptian officials administered the affairs of the region. In the el-Amarna letters, which are dated a century before, we are told that a unit of 50 Egyptian soldiers was big enough to pacify unrest in Canaan.

Throughout the period of the New Kingdom, large Egyptian armies marched through Canaan to the north, as far as the Euphrates in Syria. Therefore, the main overland road that went from the delta along the coast of northern Sinai to Gaza and then into the heart of Canaan was of utmost importance to the pharaonic regime.

The most potentially vulnerable stretch of road--which crossed the arid and dangerous desert of northern Sinai between the delta and Gaza--was the most protected. A sophisticated system of Egyptian forts, granaries and wells was established at a day's march distance along the entire length of the road, which was called the Ways of Horus.

These road stations enabled the imperial army to cross the Sinai peninsula conveniently and efficiently when necessary. The annals of the great Egyptian conqueror Thumose III tell us that he marched with his troops from the eastern delta to Gaza, a distance about 250 kilometers, in ten days. A relief from the day of Ramesses II's father, Pharaoh Seti I (from around 1300 B.C.), shows the forts and water reservoirs in the form of an early map that traces the route from the eastern delta to the southwestern border of Canaan.

The remains of these forts were uncovered in the course of archeological investigations in northern Sinai by Eliezer Oren of Ben Gurion University, in the 1970s. Oren discovered that each of these road stations, closely corresponding to the sites designated on the ancient Egyptian relief, comprised three elements: a strong fort made of bricks in the typical Egyptian military architecture, storage installations for food provisions, and a water reservoir.

Putting aside the possibility of divinely inspired miracles, one can hardly accept the idea of a flight of a large group of slaves fro Egypt through the heavily guarded border fortifications into the desert and then into Canaan in the time of such a formidable Egyptian presence. Any group escaping Egypt against the will of the pharoah would have easily been tracked down not only by an Egyptian army chasing it from the delta, but also by the Egyptian soldiers in the forts in northern Sinai and in Canaan.

Indeed, the biblical narrative hits at the dangers of attempting to flee by the coastal route. Thus the only alternative would be to turn into the desolate wastes of the Sinai peninsula. But the possibility of a large group of people wandering in the Sinai peninsula is also contradicted by archeology.

According to the biblical account, the children of Israel wandered in the desert and mountains of the Sinai peninsula, moving around and camping in different places, for a full 40 years. Even if a number of fleeing Israelites (given in the text as 600,000) is wildly exaggerated, or can be interpreted as representing smaller numbers of people, the text describes the survival of a great number of people under the most challenging conditions. Some archaeological traces of their generation-long wandering in the Sinai should be apparent. However, except for the Egyptian forts along the northern coast, not a single campsite or sign of occupation from the time of Ramesses II and his immediate predecessors and successors has ever been found in Sinai.

It has not been for lack of trying. Repeated archaeological surveys in all regions of the peninsula, including the mountainous area around the traditional site of Mount Sinai, near Saint Catherine's Monastery, has yielded only negative evidence: not a single sherd, no structure, not a single house, no trace of an ancient encampment.

One may argue that a relatively small band of wandering Israelites cannot be expected to leave material remains behind. But modern archeological techniques are quite capable of tracing even the very meager remains of hunter-gatherers and pastoral nomads all over the world. Indeed, the archaeological record from the Sinai peninsula discloses evidence for pastoral activity in such eras as the third millennium B.C.E. and the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. There is simply no such evidence at the supposed time of the Exodus in the 13th century B.C.E.

The conclusion--that the Exodus did not happen at the time and in the manner described in the Bible--seems irrefutable when we examine the evidence at specific sites where the children of Israel were said to have camped for extended periods during their wandering in the desert (Numbers 33) and where some archaeological indication--if present--would almost certainly be found.

According to the biblical narrative, the children of Israel camped at Kadesh-barnea for 38 of the 40 years of the wanderings. The general location of this place is clear from the description of the southern border of the land of Israel in Numbers 34. It has been identified by archaeologists with the large and well-watered oasis of Ein el-Quedeirat in eastern Sinai, on the border of modern Israel and Egypt. The name Kadesh was probably preserved over the centuries in the name of a nearby smaller spring called Ein Qadis. A small mound with the remains of a Late Iron Age fort stands at the center of this oasis. Yet repeated excavations and surveys throughout the entire area have not provided the slightest evidence for activity in the Late Bronze Age, not even a single sherd left by a tiny fleeing band of frightened refugees."

From 'The Bible Unearthed' by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman. Copyright (C) 2001

As Rabbis Face Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting

By MICHAEL MASSING

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

("Tree of Life" in Hebrew), a new Torah and commentary, offers new findings in biblical research, which cast doubt on stories like that in Raphael's "Crossing the Red Sea."

Excerpts From 'Etz Hayim' Essays (March 9, 2002):

"Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non- Orthodox rabbis. But there has been no attempt to disseminate these ideas or to discuss them with the laity — until now.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years. Called "Etz Hayim" ("Tree of Life" in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures. To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine document.

"When I grew up in Brooklyn, congregants were not sophisticated about anything," said Rabbi Harold Kushner, the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and a co-editor of the new book. "Today, they are very sophisticated and well read about psychology, literature and history, but they are locked in a childish version of the Bible."

"Etz Hayim," compiled by David Lieber of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, seeks to change that. It offers the standard Hebrew text, a parallel English translation (edited by Chaim Potok, best known as the author of "The Chosen"), a page-by-page exegesis, periodic commentaries on Jewish practice and, at the end, 41 essays by prominent rabbis and scholars on topics ranging from the Torah scroll and dietary laws to ecology and eschatology.

These essays, perused during uninspired sermons or Torah readings at Sabbath services, will no doubt surprise many congregants. For instance, an essay on Ancient Near Eastern Mythology," by Robert Wexler, president of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, states that on the basis of modern scholarship, it seems unlikely that the story of Genesis originated in Palestine. More likely, Mr. Wexler says, it arose in Mesopotamia, the influence of which is most apparent in the story of the Flood, which probably grew out of the periodic overflowing of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The story of Noah, Mr. Wexler adds, was probably borrowed from the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh.

Equally striking for many readers will be the essay "Biblical Archaeology," by Lee I. Levine, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "There is no reference in Egyptian sources to Israel's sojourn in that country," he writes, "and the evidence that does exist is negligible and indirect." The few indirect pieces of evidence, like the use of Egyptian names, he adds, "are far from adequate to corroborate the historicity of the biblical account."

Similarly ambiguous, Mr. Levine writes, is the evidence of the conquest and settlement of Canaan, the ancient name for the area including Israel. Excavations showing that Jericho was unwalled and uninhabited, he says, "clearly seem to contradict the violent and complete conquest portrayed in the Book of Joshua." What's more, he says, there is an "almost total absence of archaeological evidence" backing up the Bible's grand descriptions of the Jerusalem of David and Solomon.

The notion that the Bible is not literally true "is more or less settled and understood among most Conservative rabbis," observed David Wolpe, a rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and a contributor to "Etz Hayim." But some congregants, he said, "may not like the stark airing of it." Last Passover, in a sermon to 2,200 congregants at his synagogue, Rabbi Wolpe frankly said that "virtually every modern archaeologist" agrees "that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way that it happened, if it happened at all." The rabbi offered what he called a "litany of disillusion" about the narrative, including contradictions, improbabilities, chronological lapses and the absence of corroborating evidence. In fact, he said, archaeologists digging in the Sinai have "found no trace of the tribes of Israel — not one shard of pottery."

The reaction to the rabbi's talk ranged from admiration at his courage to dismay at his timing to anger at his audacity. Reported in Jewish publications around the world, the sermon brought him a flood of letters accusing him of undermining the most fundamental teachings of Judaism. But he also received many messages of support. "I can't tell you how many rabbis called me, e- mailed me and wrote me, saying, `God bless you for saying what we all believe,' " Rabbi Wolpe said. He attributes the "explosion" set off by his sermon to "the reluctance of rabbis to say what they really believe."

Before the introduction of "Etz Hayim," the Conservative movement relied on the Torah commentary of Joseph Hertz, the chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth. By 1936, when it was issued, the Hebrew Bible had come under intense scrutiny from scholars like Julius Wellhausen of Germany, who raised many questions about the text's authorship and accuracy. Hertz, working in an era of rampant anti-Semitism and of Christian efforts to demonstrate the inferiority of the "Old" Testament to the "New," dismissed all doubts about the integrity of the text.

Maintaining that no people would have invented for themselves so "disgraceful" a past as that of being slaves in a foreign land, he wrote that "of all Oriental chronicles, it is only the Biblical annals that deserve the name of history."

The Hertz approach had little competition until 1981, when the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the official arm of Reform Judaism, published its own Torah commentary. Edited by Rabbi Gunther Plaut, it took note of the growing body of archaeological and textual evidence that called the accuracy of the biblical account into question. The "tales" of Genesis, it flatly stated, were a mix of "myth, legend, distant memory and search for origins, bound together by the strands of a central theological concept." But Exodus, it insisted, belonged in "the realm of history." While there are scholars who consider the Exodus story to be "folk tales," the commentary observed, "this is a minority view."

Not among Orthodox Jews, however. They continue to regard the Torah as the divine and immutable word of God. Their most widely used Torah commentary, known as the Stone Edition (1993), declares in its introduction "that every letter and word of the Torah was given to Moses by God."

Lawrence Schiffman, a professor at New York University and an Orthodox Jew, said that "Etz Hayim" goes so far in accepting modern scholarship that, without realizing it, it ends up being in "nihilistic opposition" to what Conservative Jews stand for. He noted, however, that most of the questions about the Bible's accuracy had been tucked away discreetly in the back. "The average synagogue-goer is never going to look there," he said.

Even some Conservative rabbis feel uncomfortable with the depth of the doubting. "I think the basic historicity of the text is valid and verifiable," said Susan Grossman, the rabbi of Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia, Md., and a co-editor of "Etz Hayim." As for the mounting archaeological evidence suggesting the contrary, Rabbi Grossman said: "There's no evidence that it didn't happen. Most of the `evidence' is evidence from silence."

"The real issue for me is the eternal truths that are in the text," she added. "How do we apply this hallowed text to the 21st century?" One way, she said, is to make it more relevant to women. Rabbi Grossman is one of many women who worked on "Etz Hayim," in an effort to temper the Bible's heavily patriarchal orientation and make the text more palatable to modern readers. For example, the passage in Genesis that describes how the aged Sarah laughed upon hearing God say that she would bear a son is traditionally interpreted as a laugh of incredulity. In its commentary, however, "Etz Hayim" suggests that her laughter "may not be a response to the far- fetched notion of pregnancy at an advanced age, but the laughter of delight at the prospect of two elderly people resuming marital intimacy."

In a project of such complexity, there were inevitably many points of disagreement. But Rabbi Kushner says the only one that eluded resolution concerned Leviticus 18:22: "Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence." "We couldn't come to a formulation that we could all be comfortable with," the rabbi said. "Some people felt that homosexuality is wrong. We weren't prepared to embrace that as the Conservative position. But at the same time we couldn't say this is a mentality that has been disproved by contemporary biology, for not everyone was prepared to go along with that." Ultimately, the editors settled on an anodyne compromise, noting that the Torah's prohibitions on homosexual relations "have engendered considerable debate" and that Conservative synagogues should "welcome gay and lesbian congregants in all congregational activities."

Since the fall, when "Etz Hayim" was issued, more than 100,000 copies have been sold. Eventually, it is expected to become the standard Bible in the nation's 760 Conservative synagogues.

Mark S. Smith, a professor of Bible and Near Eastern Studies at New York University, noted that the Hertz commentary had lasted 65 years. "That's incredible," he said. "If `Etz Hayim' isn't around for 50 years or more, I'd be surprised."

Its longevity, however, may depend on the pace of archaeological discovery."

Israeli children taught hatred of Arabs

One often hears the Jewish complaint that Arabs teach their children to hate Jews. Few know that Israelis themselves teach hatred of Arabs.

"Why we have a New Testament: "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." --Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670

Moses may not have known about natural selection, but he transmitted his god's explicit commandment to kill and steal from out-group members as a recurrent major theme. Two distinct policies were put into effect. First, all members of nations located in the land that was to become Israel were to be killed outright. Subsequently, people in surrounding nations were to be killed unless they agreed to become subservient to Israel. Both policies are given in one passage of Deuteronomy (20:10-18; RSV), with instructions regarding people outside of Israel given first:

"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it; and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and every- thing else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. "But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded; that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their Gods, and so to sin against the LORD your God."

For prior occupants of the promised land, there can be no doubt that this meant genocide according to the word's modern definition (RSV): "They should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the LORD commanded Moses" (Joshua 11:20) . . . Utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling" (I Samuel 15:3). And, as if they had a sense of Hamilton's (1964) inclusive fitness: "You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath; and fire will consume them. You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men" (Psalms 21:9-10).

There can be no doubt that this commandment was mandatory, as Maimonides explained (Judges 5:4, italics not added; cf Elba 1995, Lior 1994): "It is a positive commandment to destroy the seven nations, as it is said: Thou shalt utterly destroy them. If one does not put to death any of them that falls into one's power, one transgresses a negative commandment, as it is said: Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth."

The Israelites' campaign to carry out their god's commandment to commit genocide against the native inhabitants of Canaan-cum-Palestine took several generations. It began with Joshua's massacre at Jericho. Contrary to the Christian song "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho," according to scripture there was no battle at all. It was a siege, at the end of which all of the city's inhabitants were killed except Rahab the prostitute (she and her family were spared in exchange for helping Joshua plan his strategy, Joshua 6:16-17, 19, 21, 24, RSV): Joshua said to the people, "Shout; for the LORD has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction . . . But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are sacred to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD." . . . Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword . . . And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. The half-life and penetrance of such cultural legacies are often under-appreciated.

Some 3,000 years after the fall of Jericho, Israeli psychologist George Tamarin (1966, 1973) measured the strength of residual in-group morality. He presented Joshua 6:20-21 to 1,066 school children, ages 8-14, in order to test "the effect of uncritical teaching of the Bible on the propensity for forming prejudices (particularly the notion of the 'chosen people,' the superiority of the monotheistic religion, and the study of acts of genocide by biblical heroes)." The children's answers to the question "Do you think Joshua and the Israelites acted rightly or not?," were categorized as follows: "'A' means total approval, 'B' means partial approval or disapproval, and 'C' means total disapproval."

Across a broad spectrum of Israeli social and economic classes, 66% of responses were "A," 8% "B," and 26% "C." The "A" answers tended to be as straightforward as they were numerous (Tamarin, 1966): In my opinion Joshua and the Sons of Israel acted well, and here are the reasons: God promised them this land, and gave them permission to conquer. If they would not have acted in this manner or killed anyone, then there would be the danger that the Sons of Israel would have assimilated among the "Goyim." In my opinion Joshua was right when he did it, one reason being that God commanded him to exterminate the people so that the tribes of Israel will not be able to assimilate amongst them and learn their bad ways. Joshua did good because the people who inhabited the land were of a different religion, and when Joshua killed them he wiped their religion from the earth. Tamarin (1973) noted that: "C" classification [total disapproval] was accorded to all answers formally rejecting genocide, either on ethical or utilitarian grounds. This does not mean that all "C" responses reveal non-discriminatory attitudes. For example, one girl criticized Joshua's act, stating that "the Sons of Israel learned many bad things from the Goyim." . . . Another extremely racist response is that of a 10 year old girl disapproving the act, stating, "I think it is not good, since the Arabs are impure and if one enters an impure land one will also become impure and share their curse." Other misgivings included (1966): I think Joshua did not act well, as they could have spared the animals for themselves. I think Joshua did not act well, as he should have left the property of Jericho; if he had not destroyed the property it would have belonged to the Israelites.

In contrast to the established difference between boys and girls in propensity toward violence and approval of violence in general, with regard to biblically commanded genocide Tamarin found that "Contrary to our expectation, there was no difference, concerning this most cruel form of prejudice, between male and female examinees" (1973). Less surprising, but more alarming, nearly half of the children who gave "total approval" to Joshua's behavior also gave "A" responses to the hypothetical question: "Suppose that the Israeli Army conquers an Arab village in battle. Do you think it would be good or bad to act towards the inhabitants as Joshua did towards the people of Jericho?" Tamarin (1966) received such responses as these: In my opinion this behavior was necessary, as the Arabs are our enemies always, and the Jews did not have a country, and it was necessary to behave like that towards the Arabs. It would have been good to treat the Arabs as Joshua and his soldiers did, as they are Arabs; they hate and retaliate against us all the time, and if we exterminate them as Joshua did, they won't be able to show themselves as greater heroes than we. I think it was good because we want our enemies to be conquered, and to widen our frontiers, and we should kill the Arabs as Joshua and the Israelites did. Some respondents disapproved of Joshua's campaign (answer "C"), but approved of similar acts if committed by Israeli soldiers. One girl disapproved of Joshua "because it is written in the Bible, 'don't kill'," but she approved of the conjectured Israeli Army action, stating "I think it would be good, as we want our enemies to fall into our hands, enlarge our frontiers, and kill the Arabs as Joshua did."

As a control group, Tamarin tested 168 children who were read Joshua 6:20-21 with "General Lin" substituted for Joshua and a "Chinese Kingdom 3000 years ago" substituted for Israel. General Lin got a 7% approval rating, with 18% giving partial approval or disapproval, and 75% disapproving totally. © John Hartung Ph.D.

Anti-Gentilism, anti-Christianity verses found in the Talmud

"Blessed are You HaSHem our G~d, King of the universe who: -Gave the heart understanding to distinquish between day and night. -Did not make me a gentile. -Did not make me a slave. -Did not make me a woman. -Gives sight to the blind. -Clothes the naked. -Releases the bound. -Straightens the bent. -Spreads out the earth upon the waters. -Has provided for my needs. -Establishes the footsteps of man. -Grids Israel with strength. -Crowns Israel with splendor. -Gives to the weary strength. Shema, Israel, our L~rd HaShem is One!"

From the Shema, Judaism's most sacred prayer

The Jewish people teach themselves to be ever-watchful of criticism of Judaism, Zionism, or modern Israel. They are quick to label anyone "anti-Semitic" who criticizes these things. What they never reveal though is the fact that of all three traditional Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, only one of these, Judaism, contains religious instructions that tell Jewish believers to hate another religion--Christianity, to hate the founder of that religion--Jesus Christ, and to value half the human race, women, as less than men as well as devaluing the vast majority of humanity, Gentiles, as less than Jews, actually less than human beings in their G-d's eyes.

Listed below is a sampling of some of the Talmud's anti-Gentile, anti-Christian instructions based on hatred. Jews will deny these are in the Talmud but they are there in the unrevised Talmuds.

(These are but a few of dozens found in Talmudic texts.)

Torah Jews against Zionism

"From the inception of the Zionist State and particularly in recent times, the impression has been created in the World that there is some connection between the State, which falsely calls itself Israel, and the Jewish people as a whole. Therefore, we who continue to uphold the never-changing tradition of the Jewish people find it proper to again clarify the following points:

A Jew is one who remains faithful to the laws of the Jewish religion, that is, the Holy Torah and its commandments. The Jewish people became a people before they had their own land, and continued to exist as a people also after they went Into exile, because our very peoplehood is based exclusively on the Torah. The Holy Land was given to the Jewish people on the condition that they observe the Torah and its commandments. When they failed to do this, their sovereignty over the land was taken from them, and they went into exile. From that time, we are prohibited by the Torah with a very grave prohibition to establish a Jewish independent sovereignty in the Holy Land or anywhere throughout the world. Rather, we are obligated to be loyal to the nations under whose protection we dwell.

This situation has existed for close to 2000 years when the Jewish people were dispersed throughout all corners of the world. During this time, the Jews always remained faithful to the country in which they lived. The Jewish people are grateful to all those merciful nations which have allowed them to observe Torah and the commandments undisturbed. From ancient times, the relations between the Jewish and Islamic peoples have always been those of peace and brotherhood, and friendship always reigned between them. The proof of this is the fact that for centuries, in all the Arab lands, hundreds of thousands of Jews lived in honor and amidst mutual esteem. Jews throughout all generations yearned to grace the sacred soil of the Holy Land and to live there. However, their sole purpose was to fulfill the commandments dependent upon the land and to absorb Its holiness. Never, G-d forbid, did they have any nationalist or sovereign intent whatsoever which, as mentioned above, is forbidden to us. Indeed, also here in the Holy Land, our fathers lived in neighborly harmony with the Palestinian residents of the land, helping one another, to mutual benefit.

Until about two hundred years ago, the vast majority of Jews observed the Torah and the commandments in entirety. Jewry's leaders were Torah scholars, who directed the people according to the Torah. They were loyal citizens in the host nations where they dwelled and to the local laws. They prayed for the welfare of their respective governments. To our sorrow, at that time, new winds of "freedom and equality" began to blow in Europe. A small number of Jews were lured by this spirit and slowly left their observance of Torah and commandments. Together with this, they began to deride the spiritual leadership of their people. This assimilation was the basis upon which, one hundred years ago, the ideology of Zionism was born. Its founders were assimilated Jews who had abandoned the Torah. Immediately at the founding of the Zionist movement, masses of Jews under the leadership of their Rabbis, launched a heavy battle against Zionism. Their attack was directed not only at the non-religious Zionist idea, but rather, primarily at its opposition to the Torah-ordained path that Jewry must follow while in exile. As such, the Zionists incited the nations of the world, demanding political sovereignty over the Holy Land while remaining oblivious to the resentment this would arouse In the Palestinian Arabs, the land's veteran inhabitants. As stated, the leaders of Orthodox Jewry vehemently opposed the movement with all force. The Zionists refused to heed the voice of the Rabbis and Torah authority. They persisted in their ways until they succeeded in influencing the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration concerning the "establishment of a national home for the Jews in the land of Israel." To our great sorrow, from that point on began the deterioration of the good relations between the Jews and the Arab inhabitants of the land. This occurred because the Arab people understood that the Zionists wished to seize rulership from them. In addition, the Arab people had suspicions as if the Jewish people wished to seize control of the Temple Mount and other similar sites. Matters worsened as a result. The Jewish leadership of that time saw it as proper to clarify before the Arab leaders that the Torah-true Jews had no desire whatsoever for sovereignty, and that our desire was to continue to live in peace with the Arabs, as we had always done. The leader of the G-d-fearing Jewish community at that time, Rabbi Yoseph Chaim Zonnenfeld. of blessed memory, organized a delegation in July of 24' which visited King Hussein and his sons Faisal the King of Iraq and the Amir Abdullah In order to lucidly present to them the position of the G-d-fearing Jewish community. The Jewish delegation clarified unequivocally that Torah Jewry is totally opposed to the Zionist sovereignty over the Holy Land. It Is worth noting that the delegation was received with great honor. They were even assured that all Arab lands were completely open to Jews, however, on the condition that the Jews do not demand political rights. This condition also applied to the Holy Land. One of the members of the Jewish delegation, Professor Yisroel Yaakov De Haan, paid with his life for his participation.

Torah Jewry protests at every opportunity against the Zionist rule over the Holy Land, and the Zionist rebellion against the neighboring nations. Torah Jewry has condemned the Zionist oppression of the Palestinians, the land's veteran inhabitants who have been driven from their homes and properties. The Zionists' barbaric and violent deeds are absolutely antithetical to the essence of the Jewish people. Torah Jewry has never ever recognized the Zionist state. Since the Zionists succeeding in establishing their state, Torah Jewry has continuously announced to the world that the Zionists do not represent the Jewish people, and that the name "Israel" that they use is a forgery. For as has been stated above, it is forbidden to us from the Torah to rebel against the nations, and all sovereignty by us is prohibited. Rather, we await the days when all the world will recognize the sovereignty of the Creator, and the words of the prophet Isaiah will yet be fulfilled: "And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. No nation will lift its sword against any other, nor will they learn warfare anymore." Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews have refrained to this day from taking any funds from the Zionist regime, whether for their educational institutions, synagogues or other benefits. Obviously, they do not participate in the Zionist elections, whether for the "Knesset" or for the municipality. We do not serve in their army, and we even avoid speaking in the Hebrew language that the Zionists Invented. (incidentally, this is not the holy and true Hebrew language in which the Bible is written.) All this is done because Torah Jewry does not recognize the Zionist regime, which Is against the Torah and against humanity. Lately, the question has once again arisen concerning the Temple Mount and sovereignty over it. Thus, we wish to state unequivocally: a) In our time, it is a severe Torah prohibition for any Jew to set foot on any part of the Temple Mount area. b) The Jewish people have no claim whatsoever to sovereignty over this holy site, which is under Islamic authority, nor over any other holy site. Rabbi Zonenfeld was once asked, "is it true, that the Rabbi prefers an non-Jewish government over all of the Holy Land"? Rabbi Zonenfeld replied, "if King Hussein would rule over Palestine, the holiness of the Holy Land would not be diminished to even to an Iota degree". We yearningly await G-d's great day, when He will return His Divine Presence to Zion, restoring the holy city to its former holiness and glory as in days of old, to be a light to the peoples and the nations. The Zionists have no right of any sovereignty over even one inch of the Holy Land. They do not represent the Jewish people in any way whatsoever. They have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people. Therefore, their words, declarations and actions are not in any way representative of the Jewish people. This is because the Zionists' seizing of power over the Holy Land is antithetical to Jewish law, and also because the Zionists do not behave like Jews at all rather, they desecrate the sanctity of the land. We once again clarify that it is our desire to live in peace with our Arab and Palestinian neighbors, as we did before the Zionist revolution, and as Jews all over the world till today live, accepting the yoke of rulership of their host nation, with complete loyalty. Our sole desire is to serve our G-d and to fulfill His commandments with a perfect heart and to delight in the radiance of the sanctity of the Land. "

Reformed Judaism is OK and Jewish Culture is Great

The Jewish culture is kept alive as are the basic Jewish religious ideas except the racist component of traditional Judaism has been abolished. That's really all it takes to bring Judaism in line with modern liberal democratic social ideals that exceed the human rights commandments or lack of them found in ancient religious social instructions.

Back to top

Back to Biomystical Christianity Index