Why can't Alan Rickman be "a Jewish" AND an englishman?
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I'm English and Jewish, so is almost everyone at my synagogue (English that is.) Do you think someones been hiding something from us all these years?
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I, too, am a Jew, and I disagree with you.\n\nMy friend's mother is a convert, and she is about as Jewish a mama as you can get! It is as if she is the product of generations of Jewish ancestry.\n\nI never considered her "not as Jewish as the rest of us".\nNo one in our congregation ever alludes to her non-Jewish roots, because it is so unimportant. She is a vital part of our community, and Jewish to the bone.
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I am not a Jew but I spent a year in Israel and worshipped with Messianic Jews and have friends among them. I've been to Messianic Jewish churches in England too. I know how they think.\n\nMost of the answers above are inaccurate.\n\nIn Israel there are many Christians like you who want to respect and adopt the Jewish tradition. I warn you strongly against it.\n\nRead Galatians and Acts 15. The early Church had to square up to the issue of whether or not gentiles should obey the Torah, and came down firmly against it. It leads to re-enslavement, this time to the Law, which Christ died to set us free from. We do His will by the help of the Holy Spirit, not by attempting to keep the Law, which we will fail at anyway.\n\nThe Christians I've met, mostly in Israel, who start to dabble with Judaism begin by worshipping on Shabbat (Sabbath), keeping the Jewish festivals and using Hebrew terminology. Many become more and more influenced until they believe we have to obey all 613 commandments in Leviticus. There are even extreme cases who ditch Jesus altogether. I knew a New Zealander in Jerusalem who had been baptised in the Spirit and spoken in tongues for 15 years or so. He became convinced that Judaism was correct and that Jesus was a deceiver and, in fact, (God forgive me for repeating this) that He was Satan.\n\nBEWARE!
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He was Jewish, and for about three hundred years, his followers were also considered Jewish. Eventually, there was enough disagreement about whether you could be a good Jew and believe that the Messiah had come that the "Christians" were told they really weren't part of Judaism anymore. I am a Roman Catholic, but my religion starts with Judaism as its basis. I don't understand how anyone who follows Christ can be anti-Semitic, because Jesus and His family and His first followers were Jewish.
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Isn't Golding Brtish himself? He may just use what he knows best. Also, British may represent Western society in general, so he might be saying something critical there.
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that is a prime example of why the two have different gods. in christianity even, the Jews are Gods chosen ppl. allah is a totally different god with a different chosen ppl being muslims
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Probably because the Brits didn't do it.  The whole world voted to return Israel.  No "Palestineans" were displaced.  The Jews were already on the site and had their own lands.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, as I have been taught, embellished the part about Arthur being English. This was when the Britons were a backwood people, and the English were the ones in charge.\nSo Monmouth thought it would be helpful to turn Arthur into an Englishman, thus making himself (as a Brit) more important.\nThere is much evidence that Arthur was a real warrior and that some of the battles really did happen. But in Monmouth's time, saying he fought against the English just wasn't cool.
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Arabs are sons of Abraham, Jews on the other hand is a religion not a race. We call people Jews because their religion is Judaism, and NOT because they are Israelites.
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The comedian who plays this character is actually Jewish and is from the UK.
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He is Jewish.  Talked about it in several of his books.
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Your question makes it sound as though one can be EITHER Jewish OR Italian, Jewish OR Spanish, Jewish OR Indian. That is simply not true. One can be of any nation and/or race, and still be a Jew. There are Asian Jews, Caucasian Jews, African-American Jews and even just African Jews, and there are Hispanic Jews, and Jewish citizens of every nation on earth.\n\nMy heritage is Russian and Jewish, actually Ukranian and Jewish.\n\nAnd, since you asked, i Love Judaism and being a Jew!
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Is personal persona is probably vastly different from his public one. The media have probably caught him in a place that could be deemed that he is conflicting with his supposed values, but who is to say  that was not staged?\nAlso of cause it could work the other way and he in reality he is a bigot (he is certainly a racist just look at Hurricane Katrina debacle) but just tries to give the impression of not being, but when caught in uncompromising situations he has to try and defend his already bruised reputation.\nBeing a Brit the same could be asked of our supposed prime minister (hopefully he won't be for much longer). He is a bigot, racist (government wise for the true Brits (we can't even have nativity plays in schools anymore, but that is a whole different issue) and total and utter idiot, but that is not who you are talking about, but to my mind they are both as bad as each other, just that George Bush has a bigger country to play with and ruin.
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Good point.\nHowever, the Jews don't have the practice of B.C. / A.D.\nThey are in the year 6 thousand and something.\nImagine how important a person must be considered to divide historical eras based on his birthday.
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There is not hard evidence that the antichrist will be Jewish. There is a few "maybes" but nothing definate. He arises out of Europe, that is all we know really--that and he has a BIG mouth.\nYes, a third of the world will be destroyed by the many judgments, but it will not focus on one continent, it will be world-wide, including the seas.
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no he is not jewish he is from South Africa along with Retief Goosen, Ernie Els and Tim Clark
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As I am Jewish, I find a lot of contradictions in Christians. And narrow minded ideals, which is also a contradiction, as Jesus taught the exact OPPOSITE of that sort of behaviour. So forgive me, but you goyim just confuse the hell out of me.