Throughout history, heads of state have served as the personification of their people and their civilizations. For some, their legacy was to be one of cruelty, for others of plunder and ruin. …
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The first Jewish senator in Georgia history, Jon Ossoff, was sworn in on Jan. 20, on what his office described in a tweet as a “Hebrew scripture that belonged to historic Atlanta Rabbi Jacob Rothschild.”
It left many wondering what exactly the Hebrew scripture meant, and what the relevance was of using this particular copy.
The term “Hebrew scripture” usually refers to the 24 books that Christians denominate as the Old Testament. These biblical books, originally written in Hebrew, are ordered differently in Judaism and Christianity.
In Ossoff’s case, the volume selected was a well-thumbed copy of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, which Jews known as the Torah, edited with commentary by the American-educated former Chief Rabbi of Britain Joseph H. Hertz. That, for many years, was the edition of the Torah found in most American synagogues and temples.
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Pope John Paul II, welcomed to the Great Synagogue of Rome by Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986
Today, January 17, 2021, is precisely 20 years since Pope John Paul II gave a remarkable General Audience, warning about mankind’s disastrous relationship with nature. Man is no longer the Creator’s steward, the Pope said, but an “autonomous despot”. The Pope chose to give his General Audience on Italy’s “Jewish-Christian Friendship Day”.