The Future of Jewish--and Honouring Donna Holbrook
- CAEF
- 3 days ago
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CAEF is celebrating Donna Holbrook, ICEJ Canada, and Jewish-Christian relations on November 27th. Jewish-Christian relations are a powerful potential for preserving Canadian values. Together these two belief systems and cultures created Modern Western Liberal Democracies, promoting freedom, ethics, tolerance and a just society. History is not perfect, but let's not judge the past by today's understandings. Today, what is worth celebrating is wonderfully expressed by Joshua Hoffman, founder and author of The Future of Jewish.
"Judeo-Christian civilization is not merely a set of doctrines. It is a living network of values that Jews and Christians both embody: the primacy of conscience, the belief in moral responsibility, the sanctity of the family, the importance of community, the reality of truth, and the demand that justice be grounded in something higher than human whim. These.... are the pillars of a functioning, ethical, productive, and safe society."
"Jews and Christians inherited the same moral grammar from the Hebrew Bible: the Ten Commandments as the world’s first universal code of ethics; the prophetic tradition as the birthplace of social justice; the idea of covenant, which asserts that nations must answer to moral law; the belief in human freedom as a sacred gift."
Read the whole article, then purchase a ticket for the Advocate Award of Excellence honouring Donna Holbrook, November 27th, in Toronto.
Register for free webinar with Joshua Hoffman, commentator, futurist, entrepreneur, Zionist, activist.
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