Sentences with phrase «jewish religious heritage»

It built upon, and took for granted, the Jewish religious heritage, and its essential doctrines would be quite meaningless apart from that context.

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Rabbi Benny Lau, another senior figure in the national - religious community, said the fact that only Orthodox worshipers feel at home at the Western Wall is damaging to the Jewish people and that the «sectoralization» of the site «distances other Jews from their heritage.»

Islam was also built on Jewish and Christian teachings, but it was more of an attempt by Arabs to regain their heritage from Europeans, who had pretty much taken control of all of religious history, even though everything in the Scriptures had happened in Arab lands.

As a Jew raised by a Turkish Jewish father, with an agnostic / atheist American mom who shared in all the religious practices out of respect and love I see immense beauty in this family and their tolerance, acceptance, and embracing of their heritages.

As a Jewish convert, Ruth Rees came to the Faith, and to the Rosary in particular, with a lot of unanswered questions relating to her cultural and religious heritage.

There is not a little religious exclusiveness in the history of the Hebrews as it is recorded in the Old Testament, and this gave rise to a Jewish particularism which the greater prophets had to condemn as they stressed the love of God for all men.4 Yet the doctrine of creation that is the common heritage of Jewish and Christian faith asserts unequivocally the unity of mankind and leaves no standing ground for racial exclusiveness.