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To get a sense of how unprecedented this is, it is useful to consider the American Jewish community's response to Jews for Jesus.
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David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus, was a speaker.
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While Reform and Orthodox rabbis agree on almost nothing relating to Jewish laws and practices, since the emergence of Jews for Jesus in the 1970s, Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis have been unified in their rejection of the Christian missionary group's protestations of being Jewish.
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Assad, who last year sat next to the pope and condemned the Jews for murdering Jesus and Muhammad, has never been one to mince words.
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The Vatican had its own difficulty recognising Jewish aspirations for statehood, because it still held the Jews responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ.
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"The screenplay depicts the Jewish society at the time of Jesus as the central force behind the decision for crucifixion, graphically implying that the Jews bear the responsibility for the death of Jesus, " the Anti-Defamation League says.
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Two years had elapsed since the Second Vatican Council convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962, which set out to dismantle the charge that Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.
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He altered its wording in 2008, but it still calls for Jews to "recognise Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all men", a more explicit demand than was included in John Paul II's revised wording.
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Even until the 1960s the official Catholic line was that the Jews were to blame for the death of Jesus.
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