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Article: Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity.
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Dabru Emet ("Speak the Truth ") is a statement by more than 170 Jewish scholars issued in September 2000.
In recent years, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish and Christian relations. Throughout the nearly two millennia of Jewish exile, Christians have tended to characterize Judaism as a failed religion or, at best, a religion that prepared the way for, and is completed in, Christianity. In the decades since the Holocaust, however, Christianity has changed dramatically. An increasing number of official church bodies, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have made public statements of their remorse about Christian mistreatment of Jews and ...