Dwa głosy z Haaretza - USA i PL

07.04.05, 05:32
USA

The best way to thank and honor this friend of the Jews would be to make reconciliation a two-way street instead of always a one-way street. Instead of contending that the Christian Bible is a pack of lies, admit that the Temple leadership and the Pharisees just might have persecuted Jesus and the early Christians, and apologize for it. Would that be so hard to do?

Arik Silverman, Milwaukee, United States of America


www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=560348&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0

PL


Letters to the Editor

John Paul II and the Jews


Regarding "Reconciling Christians and Jews" by David Rosen, April 3
I was really touched after reading Rabbi David Rosen's text on the late Pope John Paul II in Haaretz. Being myself Christian and a Pole - the pope's compatriot - I mourn him now as a great man and great leader. I do understand that Jews may and do regard him in a different way (I was sorry when reading Meron Rapoport's text on the pope, "The `elder brothers' reminisce").

However, it is great to see that the gestures of John Paul II were noticed and understood among the Jews as sincere attempts of reconciliation, friendship and apology for the Christians' sins of the past.

I do not agree with one of the commentators who perceived the pope's gestures as purely "politically correct" ones. Quite the opposite, I think. He was all but politically correct. If he demonstrated friendship toward the Jews - which he did, for sure - it was sincere. This is how we Christians understood him. His consistent approach toward the Jews is a great lesson for us. And it is easier to learn this lesson when we see also this kind of understanding from the Jewish side.

I do accept that some Jews don't want to recognize his steps as important and choose to remain suspicious. I just wanted to make a point that if Christian-Jewish relationships are to improve, we have to work on that on both sides.

Marcin Kozlowski

Krakow, Poland


www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562010.html
    • kotel_ha_maarawi Re: Dwa głosy z Haaretza - USA i PL 07.04.05, 06:00
      you can tell arik Silverman from Milwaukee to go f_ck himself!
      • pypcinski Re: Dwa głosy z Haaretza - USA i PL 07.04.05, 06:07
        kotel_ha_maarawi napisał:

        > you can tell arik Silverman from Milwaukee to go f_ck himself!

        Thank you, kind sir. I won't do it. But you may go and show him how the thing is done.
      • manny_ramirez Re: Dwa głosy z Haaretza - USA i PL 10.04.05, 22:08
        kotel you are here on a very dangerous ground, very,
        • abe_ltd Re: Dwa głosy z Haaretza - USA i PL 10.04.05, 23:46
          Eeee tam, 'dangerous ground'. Toz on nawet doesn't have a leg to stand on!
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