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by Jews for Jesus |April 24 2018 The Holocaust and Christian faith People often describe the Holocaust as the climax of 2,000 years of Christian mistreatment of Jews. Some invoke the Shoah as the ultimate reason for Jews not to believe in Jesus. Jewish believer Moishe Rosen challenges that view: The phrase ‘2,000 years of history leadingContinue reading “Faith after the Holocaust”

Many of us find the horror and scope of the Holocaust inconceivable, even though we know it happened. Humanity’s capacity for cruelty is hard to grasp—harder still to imagine being subjected to it. Where was God? How could God allow this? Does God even exist? These are very difficult and agonizing questions. But let’s attemptContinue reading “WHY DID GOD ALLOW THE HOLOCAUST?”

Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel’s work in the prisoners’ underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredibleContinue reading “5 Chimneys”

Rabbi, I have a problem ? Question: If God was unwilling or unable to intervene during the Holocaust, why would we imagine that He cares for us individually, as we say He does, over the High Holy Days? God’s apparent absence during the Holocaust is just one, albeit overwhelmingly powerful, example of what philosophers call theContinue reading “After the Holocaust, how can we say God cares for us?”

“Strange–people come to me sad and leave happy; whereas I . . .  I stay with my sadness, which  is like black fire . . Woe to the generation whose leader I am. . . I prefer a simple Jew who prays with joy to a sage who studies with sadness.”–The Holy Sage of LublinContinue reading “Jewish Views of the Holocaust: Theology nach Auschwitz”