“...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.” CultureTermTakenNotesJewDoctrineRelateCustomsAcceptableVehicleBiblicalGentilesAdequacyEndorsingJewish Culture Book:Anthropology for Christian Witness Source: Anthropology for Christian Witness
“I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.” ThinkingLawCultureForceIsolatedSplitsNineteenJewish CultureJewish Law Author:Gyorgy Ligeti
“Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.” StoriesCultureClassMiddleJewStoresIslandsMiddle ClassCandyBronxCandy StoresJewish CultureEllis Island Author:Arthur Hertzberg