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Hi Tim,

Thanks for this update.

Blessings
Stephen

"Jesus punished in Hell in boiling excrement" :
What the (Jewish) Talmud Really Says About Jesus
by David Klinghoffer, Religion BookLine -- Publishers Weekly, 1/31/2007
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Will Peter Schaefer's new book, Jesus in the Talmud, be controversial? "I'm afraid so," Schaefer told RBL. "That's why I'm nervous."
His editor at Princeton University Press laughed but agreed: "You think, oh, whoa, this is not going to go over well in certain circles."
Schaefer, who heads up Princeton's Judaic studies program, has collected and analyzed all the passages in the Talmud that apparently refer to the founder of Christianity.
What exactly is so scandalous? How about Jesus punished in Hell for eternity by being made to sit in a cauldron of boiling excrement? That image appears in the Babylonian Talmud, as does a brief account of Jesus' trial and execution—by the Jewish Sanhedrin. The Jewish community, to the extent Jews were even aware of these excised texts, has been content to let them remain obscure and unknown.
Schaefer has now definitively let the cat out of the bag.
It seems fair to say now, however, that the Talmud is every bit as offensive to Christians as the Gospels are to Jews.
Schaefer emphasizes that the rabbis' stories about Jesus were never intended as an attempt at historically accurate narrative. Rather, in the classic Talmudic style, they encode legal and theological argumentation in the form of sometimes-imaginative storytelling.

Comedian Larry David, who is Jewish, is under attack from critics who say he pushed the mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles over the edge in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which the cable network defended as "playful."
On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying.
Deal Hudson, author and publisher of InsideCatholic.com, said he doesn't find any humor in the episode.
"I don't think it's funny," Hudson told Foxnews.com. "Why is it that people are allowed to publicly show that level of disrespect for Christian symbols? If the same thing was done to a symbol of any other religion -- Jewish or Muslim -- there'd be a huge outcry. When will people realize this willingness of artists to do to Christianity what they would never do to Judaism or Islam?"
In a statement to Foxnews.com, HBO downplayed the controversy.
During Sunday's episode, David, who created, wrote and produced "Seinfeld," visits a bathroom in his assistant's home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus. Instead of wiping it off, David leaves the restroom. Minutes later, David's assistant enters the bathroom and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her mother to the bathroom, where both women kneel in prayer.

In regard to the Talmudic view of Jesus, you must realise that this was written at a time when there was widespread and brutal persecution of the Jewish community by people calling themselves christians. So is it any wonder that Jewish writers responded by writing nasty things about Jesus? After all, people claiming to follow Jesus were murdering their colleagues.

Sadly, for most of the last 2000 years, Jewish people have seen Jesus as a significant contributor to their suffering. History records numerous incidents of atrocities commited by Christians against Jews. The holocaust is seen as the ultimate example of this, happening in a Christian continent, perpetrated and tolerated by churchgoers of all persuasions.

I wonder after 2000 years, Is there anything or anyone in this world who can stop this.

I have read the article based on the Ultra Orthodox.I found this post very attractive in information. I agree with one of the review that In regard to the Talmudic view of Jesus, you must realize that this was written at a time when there was widespread and brutal persecution of the Jewish community by people calling themselves Christians.Jewish community are getting rights in appropriate way by calling themselves the Christan.

There is New Testament scripture that must be continually brought out to Christians, especially when we are passing along information that can stir up anti-Jewish or anti-Israel sentiments among Christians. That is Romans 11:28-31 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

The Ortiz family are showing mercy. So should we. Not excusing the criminal act of attempted murder, but also no condemning the whole nation for the evil of a minority.