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1. The Council should ―brand antisemitism as a sin and condemn all false
teachings,‖ 187
including the charge of deicide and its extension to
every Jew, which, thereby, regards each one as being accountable for
the death of Jesus.
2. The Council should recognize Jews as Jews as well as ―the integrity
and the continuing value of Jews and Judaism.‖ 188
3. Christians should become ―familiar with Judaism and Jews.‖ 189
4. A high-level commission should be established at the Vatican and
given the responsibility of eliminating anti-Jewish prejudice as well as
continually monitoring Christian-Jewish relations.
Heschel further articulates his position in his article ―From Mission to Dialogue,‖
which appeared in Conservative Judaism 21 (Spring 1967) and had been adapted from
Heschel‘s address to the 1966 Rabbinical Assembly convention while incorporating
elements from the Inaugural Address he delivered at Union Theological Seminary in
1965 published as ―No Religion is an Island.‖ Heschel ―stat[ed] that the primary aim of
the article is to find a religious basis for cooperation on matters of moral and spiritual
concern in spite of disagreements,‖ 190 proceeding to describe ―the difference between our
contemporary situation and the pre-modern one,‖ 191 asserting:
A good many people in our midst still think in terms of an age during
which Judaism wrapped itself in spiritual isolation, an age which I sought
to relive in a book called ―The Earth is the L[-]rd’s.‖
Nowadays...involvement has replaced isolation. The emancipation...has
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