Open Letter to Reverend Cantalamessa Reverend Cantalamessa, you really messed up when you compared the attacks on the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict with the persecution of the Jews. I know you didn’t mean to insult anyone, but you did, and you did it big time. It...
The Blood Libel and Ritual Murder Accusation The blood libel is the allegation that Jews ritually murdered non-Jews, especially Christians, to obtain blood to make Passover bread. It was a complex of deliberate lies, trumped up accusations, and popular beliefs about...
Did medieval Christians really believe the Jews were agents of the Devil? During the Middle Ages it was commonly believed that Jews were minions of the Devil. Medieval Christian thinkers began asking themselves what kind of rational creature would deliberately reject...
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