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Even as Jews and Christians profoundly disagree about the truth, they are united in the belief that there is a truth to be sought.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him.

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.